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” ...

In this spellbinding Sherlock Holmes mystery, Peter Cushing stars as the great detective who must unlock the mystery of a hound's horrible cry and the systematic deaths of generations of Baskervilles.

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 ...

Peter Cushing, born on this day in 1913, was one of the most respected and important actors in the horror and fantasy film genres. To his many fans, the British star, who died in 1994, was known as ...