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
Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes 1976 "The Return of the World's Greatest Detective" policemen Sherman Holmes suffers from a blow to the head resulting in him thinking he is Sherlock Holmes. John Cleese starred as Holmes' grandson - Arthur Sherlock Holmes - in the comic TV special "The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It" (1977). Arthur Lowe played Dr. William Watson, the original doctor's grandson. Between 1979 and 1986, Soviet television produced a series of five television films at the Lenfilm movie studio, "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson". The series were split into eleven episodes and starred