Your Favourite Dr Watson

[Windthrop]

name='Gerald Lovell']In theory, Bernard Fox should have been good casting as Watson, but he played it Nigel Bruce-ish in a pretty crummy TV Movie of THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES with a miscast Stewart Granger in the lead.

and a dreadful Bill Shatner a Stapleton. The London sets are totally wrong too

[will.15]

I never saw the Granger one all the way through. I caught it three times near the end and from what I saw never had any desire to watch it from the beginning.

[billy farmer]

A scene from the 1965 Sherlock Holmes film A Study In Terror featuring Robert Morley as Mycroft Holmes and Donald Houston as Dr Watson and also the Trailer for the 1979 Sherlock Holmes film Murder By Decree featuring James Mason as Dr Watson, in my opinion two of the best Sherlock Holmes films ever, both films featured Holmes and Watson hunting down Jack The Ripper and Frank Finlay appeared in both films playing the same character Inspector Lestrade, Anthony Quayle also appeared in both films playing Dr Murray in A Study In Terror and Sir Charles Warren in Murder By Decree.



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[will.15]

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Russian style.

[Honestman]

David Burke is my favourite.

[cornershop15]

Gary played a doctor in the classic episode My Life's My Own (1969):



And he was simply HORRIBLE to lovely-but-suicidal Stephanie Beacham!

[billy farmer]

A picture of Edward Hardwicke as Dr Watson (one of my favourite Dr Watson's) in The Hound Of The Baskervilles (1988).

[Torquemada]

I agree with Billy.. Murder By Decree is the best Holmes film but Ben Kingsley in Without a Clue.. very funny.

[billy farmer]

Since seeing the BBC series Sherlock featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes and Martin Freeman as Dr Watson, Martin Freeman has definitely been added to my list of favourite Dr Watsons, Cumberbatch and Freeman made a great team, just like Rathbone and Bruce, Cushing and Morell and Brett and Burke/Hardwicke, i am looking forward to seeing more episodes of Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as Holmes and Watson.

[sidney bliss]

Nigel Bruce all the way.

[alan french]

Hi,
I am not sure where I stand on this. I am not so certain that Doctor Watson is supposed to be the bumbling character that we tend to have the image of. I liked Nogel Bruce as the character, which certainly comes over in films. But is he how Sir Artheur Conan Doyle pictured him? In fact some say that Doctor Watson is based on Sir Arthur. An actor can only interpret the part as the script and perhaps film director/producer requires. Outside exceptions to the rule of course.

Alan French.

[Timmy_Lea]

Nigel Bruce. Yes many may find him too comical but the problem with Watson is that in the books he is the narrator, we see Holmes through his eyes, when that narrative device is removed with the transition to film/tv what do you do with Watson?

[Gerald Lovell]

Nigel Bruce is often accused of introducing the buffoonish Watson, but in reality there were several prior Watsons (e.g. Reginald Owen, Warburton Gamble and even Arthur Wontner's Ian Fleming) who were pretty dim: presumably this was considered a dramatic device to show how clever Holmes was. Even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle described Watson in his newsreel appearance in 1930 as rather stupid and this was 9 years before Nigel Bruce took up the role.

[alan french]

Hi,
I have seen the newsreel but, I cannot remember what he says about Watson. So, I shall take your word for it. I agree that most of the stories are through Watson's eyes. There are at least two exceptions. But in the Hound of The Baskervilles, Holmes does say something on the lines that he trusts Watson with his life. (If my memory serves me correctly) But I agree, that Watson being a bit dim, does accentuate the genius of Holmes. But, I think even Einstein would look dim against Holmes remarkable powers of deduction. Watson and Holmes, either way, are both marvellous characters anyway.

Alan French.

[jimw1]

[cumberbatches_woman]

for me it has to be Edward Hardwicke as Dr Watson.

[mallee59]

David Burke, Edward Hardwicke and of course Ben Kingsley. I was hoping to meet Edward at the memorabilia show but he was unable to attend due to illness last November

[Scorpio]

i am a traditionalist, so i love the bumbling Nigel Bruce

[billy farmer]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Elementary-M...GQ/ref=sr_1_1?

[billy farmer]