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    Continuing the Holmes connections, Frank Middlemass played Peterson in the Peter Cushing version of "The Blue Carbuncle" in 1968, then played Henry Baker in the 1984 Jeremy Brett version.
    something that i noticed at the time of watching for the first time last month yet failed to make a comment! gerald-you are a 'holmes' and i am a mere 'lestrade'!

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    something that i noticed at the time of watching for the first time last month yet failed to make a comment! gerald-you are a 'holmes' and i am a mere 'lestrade'!


    Keeping up the Lestrade connection, it's worth mentioning Peter Madden who I first recall from seeing as the suitably weasel-faced Inspector in the Douglas Wilmer series (still haven't received my DVD set, confound it, Watson), but then he went on to play Bill McCarthy in the Peter Cushing version of "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" and Von Tirpitz in Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.

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    Apparently if you're making a film about Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper, it's the law that you have to cast Frank Finlay as Inspector Lestrade

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    Apparently if you're making a film about Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper, it's the law that you have to cast Frank Finlay as Inspector Lestrade


    According to Frank Finlay, the makers of Murder By Decree didn't even know about A Study in Terror until he told them, far less that he played the same role in both.

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    Basil Rathbone played in three TV versions of "A Christmas Carol" in the Fifties - the ghost of Jacob Marley in the first one, and Ebenezer Scrooge in the other two. Fredric March, who was Scrooge in the first introduced the last.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Schreck View Post
    Basil Rathbone played in three TV versions of "A Christmas Carol" in the Fifties - the ghost of Jacob Marley in the first one, and Ebenezer Scrooge in the other two. Fredric March, who was Scrooge in the first introduced the last.
    I was just about to mention that, Dr. Schreck. I've only seen the March version and the musical THE STINGIEST MAN IN TOWN, and I must say I think Rathbone is far better as Scrooge than March. Mind you, they are both far better than Taylor Holmes in the 1949 production narrated by Vincent Price called THE CHRISTMAS CAROL for some reason.

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    John Ireland played Billy Clanton in "My Darling Clementine" in 1946 and was in "Gunfight at the OK Corral" in 1957 where he played Ringo. He never made the final reel in either film. James Garner has played Wyatt Earp twice. Hour of the Gun 1967 and Sunset 1988.

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