The most famous bull terrier owned by General Patton was purchased on 4 March 1944. When General Patton bought Willie, he wrote in his diary, My bull pup...took to me like a duck to water. He supposedly had his own set of dog tags too. Willie was devoted to General Patton and followed him everywhere.
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Portrayals include those of Basil Rathbone in Hollywood in the 1940s, the BBC 1960s dramatisations featuring Douglas Wilmer (still alive at 94) and Jeremy Brett who played Holmes on ITV in the 1980s. There is even a brief clip from a French silent film of 1912 in which Holmes is played by Georges Treville.