Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes Conway played Sherlock Holmes opposite Nigel Bruce for one season. After a change of networks, there were two more pairings: John Stanley as Holmes and Alfred Shirley as Watson in 1947–1948 and Stanley and "George Spelvin" in 1948–1949. Both Stanley and Conway emulated Rathbone when performing Holmes to aid in continuity for the audience. John Gielgud played Holmes for BBC radio in the 1950s, with Ralph Richardson as Watson. Gielgud's brother, Val Gielgud, appeared in "The Bruce-Partington Plans", perhaps inevitably, as Mycroft Holmes. As this series was co-produced by the American Broadcasting Company, known American actors also appeared, such as
Dr. Watson Here he is direct about a method of preserving discretion and confidentiality that other scholars have inferred from the stories, with pseudonyms replacing the "real" names of clients, witnesses, and culprits alike, and altered place-names replacing the real locations. Bruce McRae created the character of Dr Watson in the 1899 Broadway production of "Sherlock Holmes", a play by William Gillette and Arthur Conan Doyle. Edward Fielding played Watson in the 1916 film "Sherlock Holmes" Roland Young played Watson in the 1922 film "Sherlock Holmes" Ian Fleming played Watson in the 1931" Sherlock Holmes" film series except for "The Sign of