Sherlock Holmes early 1900s, H. A. Saintsbury took over the role from Gillette for a tour of the play. Between this play and Conan Doyle's own stage adaptation of "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", Saintsbury portrayed Holmes over 1,000 times. Basil Rathbone played Holmes and Nigel Bruce played Watson in fourteen U.S. films (two for 20th Century Fox and a dozen for Universal Pictures) from 1939 to 1946, and in "The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" on the Mutual radio network from 1939 to 1946 (before the role of Holmes passed to Tom Conway). While the Fox films were period pieces,
Anthony Higgins (actor) Holmes' enemy Professor Moriarty, in two different decades of his career. He was the villain Rathe (not yet going by the name Moriarty) in "Young Sherlock Holmes" (1985), and played Sherlock Holmes himself in "Sherlock Holmes Returns" (1993). In 1993 he played a lead part in the film "Sweet Killing". In 2005 he appeared in "Chromophobia". He played General Jacques Francois Dugommier in 2007 in "". In 2009 he appeared in "Lewis", "", and "Agatha Christie's Marple ("The Secret of Chimneys"). Anthony Higgins (actor) Anthony Higgins (born 9 May 1947) is an English stage, film and television actor. Higgins started