Sherlock Holmes (1916 film) Sherlock Holmes (1916 film) Sherlock Holmes is a 1916 American silent film starring William Gillette as Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. The film, which was directed by Arthur Berthelet, was produced by Essanay Studios in Chicago. It was adapted from the 1899 stage play of the same name, which was based on the stories, "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Final Problem," and "A Study in Scarlet" by Arthur Conan Doyle. All surviving prints of the 1916 film "Sherlock Holmes" were once thought to be lost. However, on October 1, 2014, it was announced that a copy had been discovered in
Canon of Sherlock Holmes Jack Tracy; "The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", edited by Peter Haining; "The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes", edited by Richard Lancelyn Green; and the final volume of Leslie S. Klinger's "Sherlock Holmes Reference Library" titled "The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes". These works, each with slightly different contents, discussed several titles and their place in the canon. In addition to the canon, Conan Doyle wrote (occasionally with a co-writer) a number of vignettes, play adaptations and essays involving Holmes, and two short stories in which Holmes makes a possible cameo appearance. Most were published in various places during his lifetime; another has