George Zucco of Sherlock Holmes" (1939), opposite Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. Zucco earned a reputation as a bespectacled, nefarious character in films such as "After the Thin Man", "Fast Company", "Arrest Bulldog Drummond", "Charlie Chan in Honolulu", "The Cat and the Canary", and "My Favorite Blonde". During the 1940s, he took every role he was offered, landing himself in B-films and Universal horror films, including "The Mummy's Hand" (1940), "The Mummy's Tomb" (1942), "The Mad Monster" (1942), "The Mad Ghoul" (1943), "Dead Men Walk" (1943), "The Mummy's Ghost" (1944), "House of Frankenstein" (1944), and "Tarzan
Dr. Watson Alan Cox played a teenage Watson in the 1985 film "Young Sherlock Holmes", narrated by Michael Hordern as an older Watson. Ian Hart portrayed a young, capable, and fit Watson twice for BBC Television, once opposite Richard Roxburgh as Holmes (in a 2002 adaptation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles") and for a second time opposite Rupert Everett as the Great Detective in the new story "Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking" (2004). In the Soviet Sherlock Holmes film series, directed by Igor Maslennikov, Dr Watson was played by Vitaly Solomin. He is portrayed as a brave