Cushing took painstaking measures to ensure that his Holmes was faithful to Conan Doyle’s source material. According to Alan Barnes’ book Sherlock Holmes on Screen, the actor was already a Holmes ...

Among literary figures whose adventures have been translated to the screen, none have appeared as often as Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle’s pipe-smoking rationalist — the “consulting detective” ...

Peter Cushing seems like the perfect person to play the Doctor. He was and is an icon of genre film. The supremely talented British actor portrayed some of horror literature’s best-loved heroes and ...

Put this in your pipe, Sherlock Holmes fans: More than 75 actors -- from Mack Sennett to, holy Moses, Charlton Heston -- have donned the detective's deerstalker cap on screen. Latest on the list is ...