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Many different actors have portrayed Sherlock Holmes in a variety of [[motion picture]] and [[television]] projects. Perhaps the two actors who portrayed Holmes most often were:

Many different actors have portrayed Sherlock Holmes in a variety of [[motion picture]] and [[television]] projects. Perhaps the two actors who portrayed Holmes most often were:

# [[Basil Rathbone]], who portrayed Holmes in several films set in the middle twentieth century, when the films were made.

# [[Basil Rathbone]], who portrayed Holmes in several films set in the middle twentieth century, when the films were made.  He also played Holmes on a weekly radio show from 1939 to 1945.

# [[Jeremy Brett]], who portrayed Holmes in adaptations, produced by [[John Hawkesworth]], of all four novels and fifty of the fifty-six short stories. Brett died before Hawkesworth could complete his grand project of adapting all of the Sherlock Holmes stories for [[television]]. Critics regard Brett's portrayal as the most definitive and realistic portrayal of Holmes ever made.

# [[Jeremy Brett]], who portrayed Holmes in adaptations, produced by [[John Hawkesworth]], of all four novels and fifty of the fifty-six short stories. Brett died before Hawkesworth could complete his grand project of adapting all of the Sherlock Holmes stories for [[television]]. Critics regard Brett's portrayal as the most definitive and realistic portrayal of Holmes ever made.