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The list of actors who have played Sherlock Holmes in film, television, stage, or radio includes:

• Hans Albers
  • The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (1937 film, Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war)
• Joaquim de Almeida
  • The Xango from Baker Street (2001 film, O Xangô de Baker Street)
• James D'Arcy
  • Sherlock: Case of Evil (2002 TV film)
• Tom Baker
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982 mini series)
• John Barrymore
  • Sherlock Holmes (1922 film)
• Keith Baxter

• The Penultimate Problem of Sherlock Holmes (Off Broadway play, 1980)
• Murder, My Dear Watson (stage play, England, 1983)

• Jeremy Brett
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984-1994 TV series)
• Nicholas Briggs
  • Sherlock Holmes - Holmes and the Ripper^[1] (2010 Big Finish Productions audio drama)
• Clive Brook
  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929 film)
  • Sherlock Holmes (1932 film)
• Ian Buchanan
  • Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2008 TV episode, Trials of the Demon)
• Michael Caine
  • Without a Clue (1988 film)
• John Cleese
  • The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It (1977 film)
  • Elementary, My Dear Watson (1973 TV film)
• Peter Cook
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978 film)
• Benedict Cumberbatch
  • Sherlock (2010 BBC TV Series)
• Peter Cushing
  • The Masks of Death (1984 TV film)
  • Sherlock Holmes (1965-1968 TV series)
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959 film)
• Robert Downey, Jr.
  • Sherlock Holmes (2009 film)
  • Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011 film)
• Rupert Everett
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004 TV film)
• Matt Frewer
  • The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire (2002 TV film)
  • The Sign of Four (2001 TV film)
  • The Royal Scandal (2001 TV film)
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000 TV film)
• William Gillette
  • Sherlock Holmes (1899 Broadway production)
  • Sherlock Holmes (1916 motion picture)
• Stewart Granger
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972 TV film)
• John Gielgud
  • On BBC Radio in the 1950s
• Guy Henry
  • Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House (1982 TV series)
• Charlton Heston
  • The Crucifer of Blood (1991 TV film)
• Anthony Higgins
  • Sherlock Holmes Returns (1993 TV film)
• Carleton Hobbs
  • On BBC Radio (1952-1969 radio series)
• Ronald Howard
  • Sherlock Holmes (1954-1955 TV series)
• Frank Langella
  • Sherlock Holmes (1981 TV film)
• Roger Llewellyn
  • Sherlock Holmes - The Last Act^[2] (2009 Big Finish Productions audio drama)
  • Sherlock Holmes - The Death and Life^[3] (2009 Big Finish Productions audio drama)
• John Longden
  • The Man Who Disappeared (1951, 26 min TV episode)
• Peter Lawford
  • Fantasy Island, episode "The Case Against Mr. Roarke/Save Sherlock Holmes" (1982 TV series)
• Christopher Lee
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962 film, Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband der Todes)
  • Incident at Victoria Falls (1991 TV film)
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1992 TV film)
• Vasily Livanov
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (series, five films 1979 to 1986)
• Patrick Macnee
  • The Hound of London (1993 TV film)
• Algimantas Masiulis
  • Blue carbuncle (1979 film, Belarusfilm)
• Raymond Massey
  • The Speckled Band (1931 film)
• Clive Merrison
  • On BBC Radio (1989-2004 radio series)
• Keith Michell
  • The Crucifer of Blood (1979 London stage production)
• Nis Bank-Mikkelsen
  • The Blue Carbuncle (2007 Danish children's audio-drama)
• David Mitchell
  • That Mitchell and Webb Look
• Ron Moody
  • Sherlock Holmes: The Musical (1989 stage production)
• Roger Moore
  • Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976 TV film)
• Alwin Neuss de:Alwin Neuß
  • Sherlock Holmes (1908)
  • Der Hund von Baskerville (1914)
  • Detektiv Braun (1914)
• John Neville
  • A Study in Terror (1965 film)
  • Sherlock Holmes (Royal Shakespeare Company stage production)
• Leonard Nimoy
  • Sherlock Holmes (Royal Shakespeare Company stage production)
• Eille Norwood
  • Numerous silent films from 1920 to 1923
• Peter O'Toole
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse (1983 cartoon)
  • Sherlock Holmes and a Study in Scarlet (1983 cartoon)
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Four (1983 cartoon)
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Valley of Fear (1983 cartoon)
• Reginald Owen
  • A Study in Scarlet (1933 film)
• Michael Pennington
  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987 TV film)
• Christopher Plummer
  • Silver Blaze (1977)
  • Murder by Decree (1979 film)
• Jonathan Pryce
  • Baker Street Irregulars (2007 film)
• Basil Rathbone
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film)
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film)
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942 film)
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943 film)
  • Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943 film)
  • Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943 film)
  • The Spider Woman (1944 film)
  • The Scarlet Claw (1944 film)
  • The Pearl of Death (1944 film)
  • The House of Fear (1945 film)
  • The Woman in Green (1945 film)
  • Pursuit to Algiers (1945 film)
  • Terror by Night (1946 film)
  • Dressed to Kill (1946 film)
  • Suspense, episode "The Adventure of the Black Baronet" (1953 TV series)
• Robert Rendel
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932 film)
• Ian Richardson
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983 TV film)
  • The Sign of Four (1983 TV film)
• Nicholas Rowe
  • Young Sherlock Holmes (1985 film)
• Richard Roxburgh
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002 TV film)
• George C. Scott
  • They Might Be Giants'' (1971 film)
• Mack Sennett: writer-director-actor Sennet portrayed Holmes in 11 silent short films from 1911-1913, with Fred Mace as Watson
• Paul Singleton

• Grit in a Sensitive Instrument (Regional theater, 1980; Off Broadway, 1982; cable TV also)
• The Blue Carbuncle (Off Broadway play, 2007; Los Angeles stage, 2008)

• Tod Slaughter
  • on stage in the start of the 1930's
• Robert Stephens
  • The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970 film)
• Ben Syder
  • Sherlock Holmes (2010 film)
• Robert Webb
  • That Mitchell and Webb Look
• Alan Wheatley
  • Sherlock Holmes (1951 BBC TV series)
• Geoffrey Whitehead
  • Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1980 TV series)
• Paxton Whitehead
  • The Crucifer of Blood (1978 Broadway production)
• Nicol Williamson
  • The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976 film)
• Douglas Wilmer
  • Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series)
  • The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975 film)
• Arthur Wontner
  • The Sleeping Cardinal (1931 film)
  • The Missing Rembrandt (1932 film)
  • The Sign of Four (1932 film)
  • The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935 film)
  • Silver Blaze (1937 film)
• John Wood
  • Sherlock Holmes (1974-1976 Broadway theatre production)
• Edward Woodward
  • Hands of a Murderer (1990 TV film)
• Vasily Livanov
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1979 TV series)
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: The Twentieth Century Approaches (1986 film)