Sherlock Holmes in Washington films, George Zucco in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (1939), and Henry Daniell in "The Woman in Green" (1945). Gerald Hamer, who appeared in four more of Rathbone's Holmes movies, has a brief uncredited, but pivotal, role. Sherlock Holmes in Washington Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) is the fifth film in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes movies. The plot is an original story not based on any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes tales. British secret agent Alfred Pettibone carrying a vital secret document is murdered on his way to deliver it in the USA. The British
Dr. Watson Dr. Watson John H. Watson, known as Dr Watson, is a fictional character in the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Watson is Sherlock Holmes' friend, assistant and sometime flatmate, and the first person narrator of all but four of these stories. He is described as the typical Victorian-era gentleman, unlike the more eccentric Holmes. He is astute, although he can never match his friend's deductive skills. Whilst retaining his role as Holmes's friend and confidant, Watson has been adapted in various films, television series, video games, comics and radio programmes. In Conan Doyle's early rough plot outlines,