Unfortunately, they didn't really delve into JB's radical departure from the other Holmeses, i.e., Jeremy's Sherlock is quite clearly OCD/addictive-personality/personality disorder with herculean amounts of self-discipline to keep it all on the rails. This was why we all raved about the series, how supposedly realistic it was. But today I fear it might have been anachronistic. Not sure . . . and suffering as a result.
When I found out he died I was sitting at my desk and I slammed my fist down upon it and cried out my mother came up to see what was the matter In tears i basically shooed her away much like holmes would have done to Mrs. Hudson I didn’t even realize what I was doing to this day I have friends who say I have an insight to a lot of things that they don’t see didn’t realize and they’re amazed at my gift that I was not born with but acquired through Sherlock Holmes😔 so sorry mom😔
I’m in tears at times watching his performance he was so three dimensional his performance was beyond the stories as they depicted him there never will be an should never anyone try to best Jeremy Brett‘s performance as far as I’m concerned 😔
Jeremy Brett's performance as Sherlock Holmes in the Granada/PBS Masterpiece Mystery series was the reason I started watching PBS in the first place. Sesame Street had started right after my childhood ended, so I missed it entirely. Brett's Sherlock Holmes series came in my twenties when I was a dyed-in-the-wool Holmes fan from Doyle's books. I was delighted that Brett found and played up on the quirks and rare displays of emotion that I always noticed in them! To me, Holmes was a repressed child, so he never quit being a child! He acted with the Victorian courtesy that he was taught, but his mind was always on the hunt for the next really cool thing! That's why he almost seems autistic at times. His world only brushes elbows with the mundane adult world, as he is constantly and completely immersed in his own world of adventure and learning all there was to know about his interests. Brett, I think, saw this too and created his Holmes around that idea, much to the delight of all that view his work in this series. I shed a little tear thinking of how magnificent it would have been for him to do the entire catalog. Our loss, most definitely! Thank you for presenting this PBS story on Jeremy Brett. He is and will forever be, my true Sherlock Holmes.❤🎩
Basil Rathbone may well have been Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes... but to so many people, Jeremy Brett is the definitive Holmes - no-one else comes close.
As a 69 years old Scot and life long A C Doyle fan (I was brought up about 100 yards from his birth place) I salute Jeremy Brett as the best ever Sherlock Holmes. I read Doyle and see Brett in my head. I so wish he had been able to finish the canon.
Lovely to hear his voice. It could have been yesterday. Ah, Jeremy.. you have no idea how big a part you played in so many people's lives. I wish you hadn't smoked so much.
This is a series which couldn't be made today, despite advances in technology. Watson would be black and Mrs Hudson would be trans, probably. In the background, it'd look like contempt London. What a shame we're afraid to portray London as it looked in the latter half of the nineteenth century
In his voice, as in some moment of the SH episodes, I can clearly hear his already compromised lungs and heart (or more likely, both); Signs of the disease which would contribute to his death only a few short years after this interview.
He was the best. Even though it was Basil Rathbone who brought me first to Sherlock Holmes I fell in love in love with him completely when Brett took the part
When she asked "When you're done with the cannon, what else is there to do?" ..it sent shivers down my spine. I expected him to say "I can die then..." Sadly he died even before.
Those who have played Sherlock Holmes since 1893: Charles Brookfield - 1893 William Gillette - 1899-1930 - 1300 Performances over 30 yrs. Sherlock Holmes movie Baffled - 1900 Silent/Short - Max Goldberg John F. Preston - 1900 Charles Rice - 1904 Karoly Baumann - 1905 Maurice Costello - 1905 Viggo Larsen - 1908 Alwin NeuB - 1908, 1911, 1914 Otto Lagoni - 1910 Holger Rasmussen - 1911 Mack Sennett - 1911-1912 George Treville - 1912 Harry Benham - 1913 James Bragington - 1914 Francis Ford - 1914 H.A. Saintbury - 1916 Hugo Fink - 1917 Sam Robinson - 1918 Eille Norwood - 1921 Silent short movie - The Dying Detective Burt Lytell - 1921 Dennis Neillson-Terry - 1921 John Barrymore - 1922 Hamilton Deane - 1923-1932 Tod Slaughter - 1928, 1930 Richard Gordon - 1930-1933, 1936 Clive Brook - 1929/1930/1932 Arthur Wontner - 1931- 1937 - Movie Series Raymond Massey - 1931 Robert Rendel - 1932 Reginald Owen - 1933 Felix Alymer - 1933 Louis Hector - 1934-1935, 1937 Bruno Guttner - 1937, 1939, 1942-1943 Orson Welles - 1938 Basil Rathbone - 1939-1946 Cedric Hardwick - 1945 Tom Conway - 1947 Howard Marion-Crawford - 1948 John Stanley - 1948-1949 Alan Napier - 1949 John Longden - 1951 Laidman Browne - 1951 Carleton Hobbs - 1952-1969 Ronald Howard - 1954 (39 episodes) Sir John Gielgud - 1954-1955 Peter Cushing - 1959, 1968, 1984 Christopher Lee - 1962, 1970, 1992 Douglas Wilmer - 1964 John Neville - 1965, 1970, 1978 Robert Stephens - 1970 Stewart Granger - 1972 John Cleese - 1973 Larry Hagman - 1974 Robert Powell - 1974 John Wood - 1974-1975 Leonard Nimoy - 1976 Kevin McCarthy - 1977 Roger Moore - 1976 Nicol Williamson - 1976 Christopher Plummer - 1977 Peter Cook - 1977 Paxton Whitehead - 1978 Geoffrey Whitehead - 1979-1980 Keith Mitchell - 1979 Charlton Heston - 1980 Frank Langella - 1980 Vasily Livanov - Russian TV - 1979-1981, 1983 & 1986 John Moffatt - 1981 Guy Henry - 1982 Tom Baker - 1982 Ian Richardson - 1983 Peter O’Toole - 1983 (animated TV films - Australian) Jeremy Brett - 1984-1994 Nicholas Rowe - 1984 Dinsdale Landen - 1987 Guy Rolfe - 1984 Tim Pigott-Smith - 1987 Anthony Higgins - 1987 Michael Pennington - 1987 Roger Rees - 1988 Ron Moody - 1988-1989 Clive Merrison - 1989-1998, 2002, 2004, 2008-2010 Edward Woodward - 1990 Simon Callow - 1990 Richard E. Grant 1992 Robert Powell - 1993 Patrick McNee - 1993 Anthony Higgins - 1993 1998-2019: John Gilbert - Episodes 1-18 Lawrence Albert - Episode 20 John Patrick Lowrie - Episodes 21-65 & 67-until Dennis Bateman - Episode 66 Matt Frewer - 2000-2001 Joaquim de Almeida - 2001 Richard Roxburgh - 2002 James D’Arcy - 2002 Andrew Sachs - 2004 Rupert Everett - 2004 Jonathan Pryce - 2007 Javier Marzan - 2007 Roger Llewellyn - 2009 Ben Syder - 2010 Nicholas Briggs - 2010-2018 Johnny Lee Miller - 2012-2019 Benjamin Lawlor - 2013 Igor Petrenko - Russian TV Series - 2013 Robert Downey Jr. 2009 & 2011 Benedict Cumberbatch - 2010-2016 Nicholas Briggs - 2010-2018 Christian Rode - 2010, 2014 Seamus Dever - 2014 Ian McKellen - 2015 Euan Morton - 2015 Gregory Wooddell - 2015 Paul Andrew Goldsmith - 2015-2016 Ewen Bremner - 2016 Jay Taylor - 2017-2018 Yuko Takeuchi - 2018 (HBO Asia - female ‘Holmes’) Orlando Wells - 2018 Samuel Tady - 2011, 2014, 2017-2018 (Tady Bros. Productions/on YTube) Johnny Depp - 2018 (animation) Will Ferrell - 2018 Nicholas Boulton - 2020 Henry Cavill - 2020 Ethan Bell - 2020 (Fan Film on RU-vid) Ethan Thomas Jung - 2020 Fan Adv. (Vagabond Repertory Theater Company-RU-vid) This list is not exhaustive. however, these are some of the many actors who have played Sherlock Holmes on stage, screen, radio and TV adaptations.
As a 58 year old American, and lifelong fan of Sherlock Holmes... Jeremy Brett is the most authentic Holmes I have ever seen portrayed. I delighted each week to a new episode when originally broadcast, and I have yet to see a "better" Holmes. Jeremy Brett IS Sherlock Holmes!!!
what an amazing interviewer. she was so gentle and actually let the man give a full answer. so grateful she interviewed him, wish it could have gone on so much longer.
