List of actors who have played Sherlock Holmes

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Sherlock Holmes is the most portrayed fictional character in film and television, with 254 on-screen appearances by 2012. He has also appeared in many audio dramas and stage productions. A small number of actors have played both Holmes and Watson. Examples include Reginald Owen, who played Watson in Sherlock Holmes (1932) and Holmes in A Study in Scarlet (1933); Jeremy Brett, who played Watson on stage in the United States before becoming Holmes on British television; Howard Marion-Crawford, who played Holmes on British radio and Watson on American television; Carleton Hobbs, who played both roles in British radio adaptations; Patrick Macnee, who played both roles in American television movies; and Anthony D. P. Mann, who played Holmes in Sherlock Holmes and the Shadow Watchers (2011) and Watson in the 2017 Bleak December audio adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles.