Minor Sherlock Holmes characters a character called Wiggins (played by Graham Armitage) who is a footman at the Diogenes Club. He delivers a note to Mycroft Holmes (played by Christopher Lee) and receives instructions concerning various items. The character, credited as "Bill Wiggins", also appears in the series three finale of "Sherlock" portrayed by Tom Brooke as a drug user who actually demonstrates the beginning of Sherlock's deductive skills, and later appoints himself a "pupil" of Sherlock's. Some fictional characters associated with Sherlock Holmes are not part of the Conan Doyle canon and were created by other writers. Auguste Lupa is the son of
Walter C. Mycroft (1928) was based. Their friendship does not seem to have survived their collaboration. Mycroft was elevated to head of production at Elstree during the 1930s, during which time BIP was reconstituted as the Associated British Picture Corporation. The company released a large number of films on which Mycroft was credited as producer, with varying levels of actual involvement. His adopted son, David Rees Mycroft worked as assistant director on a number of Elstree productions. David Mycroft, who isn't mentioned in Walter Mycroft's autobiography "The Time of My Life", edited by Vincent Porter and published posthumously, was an experimental filmmaker, poet