The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (film) in which Holmes is played by Robert Downey, Jr.. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (film) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (released theatrically as Sherlock Holmes in the United Kingdom) is a 1939 mystery-adventure film released by Twentieth Century Fox. It is a pastiche featuring the characters of the Sherlock Holmes series of books written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film is an adaptation of the 1899 play "Sherlock Holmes" by William Gillette, though there is little resemblance in the plots. The picture is the second installment to the series of fourteen "Sherlock Holmes" film series released between 1939 and
Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes hijacked for ransom by D. B. Cooper. The 1991-92 series "Sherlock Holmes the Golden Years" consisted of two TV films, in which Sherlock Holmes (played by Christopher Lee) and Dr. Watson (played by Patrick Macnee) are older adults who continue investigating cases. The two films were "Incident at Victoria Falls" and "Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady". In 1991, Charlton Heston played Holmes in the Turner Network Television production of Paul Giovanni's play "The Crucifer of Blood". From 2000 to 2002, Muse Entertainment Enterprises produced four television films for the Hallmark Channel, starring Matt Frewer as Holmes and Kenneth Welsh