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Nigel Bruce

Nigel Bruce
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Nigel Bruce

When Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce were chosen to play Holmes and Watson in the 1939 film The Hound of the Baskervilles, no one realized that they would be forever linked with the characters of the great detective and his loyal friend. The immediate success of the film led to their being chosen to portray Holmes and Watson on the radio for 8 years in 213 episodes of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries.

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The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Collection Volume Three will be released on December 06, 2011 in Compact Disk
Dec 06, 2011
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Collection Volume Three is now available in Compact Disk
Dec 06, 2011
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Murder by Moonlight and Other Mysteries
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The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Collection Volume One
Dec 02, 2009
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The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Collection Volume Two
Dec 02, 2009
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Collection Volume Two will be released on December 01, 2009 in Compact Disk
Dec 01, 2009
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Collection Volume Two is now available in Compact Disk
Dec 01, 2009
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Collection Volume One will be released on December 01, 2009 in Compact Disk
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The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Collection Volume One is now available in Compact Disk
Dec 01, 2009
The Unfortunate Tobacconist and The Paradol Chamber is now available in
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The Unfortunate Tobacconist and The Paradol Chamber will be released on January 10, 2008 in
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The Tell Tale Pigeon Feathers and The Indiscretion of Mr. Edwards will be released on January 10, 2008 in eAudio
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The Tell Tale Pigeon Feathers and The Indiscretion of Mr. Edwards is now available in eAudio
Jan 10, 2008
The Unfortunate Tobacconist and The Paradol Chamber will be released on January 10, 2008 in eAudio
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The Unfortunate Tobacconist and The Paradol Chamber is now available in eAudio
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The Living Doll and The Disappearing Scientists will be released on January 10, 2008 in eAudio
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What Now, Sherlock?
Pleasanton Express, February 7, 2013
...Holmes on a new adventure in Morocco. Don’t expect a Dr. Watson here, neither the gruff, bumbling Nigel Bruce of the forties movies or the suave counterpoint that is Jude Law in the new movies. Enter Mary Russell, student, apprentice, colleague,...
Heir of mystery
WA Today, January 27, 2013
...the Baskervilles (1939) and Pursuit to Algiers (1945), and a radio series, The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Nigel Bruce played his Dr Watson. Peter Cushing One of the godfathers of horror, Cushing played Sherlock Holmes in the Hammer Studio's...
In and Out of Character Book Review
BellaOnline, January 21, 2013
...theatre. He is quite reticent, though, about other things. He describes his close friendships, such as with actor Nigel Bruce who played Watson to his Sherlock Holmes, but goes into no great detail. Similarly, he writes about his wife Ouida and their...
Sherlock Holmes: A chameleon character with 'Elementary' appeal
Los Angeles Times, October 4, 2012
...were nothing new even then. During World War II, Holmes and Watson (as played by Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce) went head-to-head with the Nazis in several Universal features. The 1987 TV movie “The Return of Sherlock Holmes” brought our hero out...
To Honor Banned Books Week, Here’s Banned Films for Family Viewing
Petaluma 360, October 3, 2012
...Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective as portrayed in classic black and white with Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson, or in action-filled color with Robert Downey Jr. as the detective and Jude Law as the doctor, books about the famous duo...
THICK END OF THE WEDGE: Owning newspapers is a sacred trust
BDlive, May 27, 2013
...newspaper houses go to war, all circulation rises, so bring it on! Years ago, when David Gleason and Nigel Bruce bought Finance Week and I was made editor of the Financial Mail, they took us on directly. Lots of Financial Mail staff left to join Finance...
Owning newspapers is a sacred trust
BDlive, May 27, 2013
...newspaper houses go to war, all circulation rises, so bring it on! Years ago, when David Gleason and Nigel Bruce bought Finance Week and I was made editor of the Financial Mail, they took us on directly. Lots of Financial Mail staff left to join Finance...
Week 21: birth of morphing, Rathbone & Bruce plus Peter Cushing
Movie Mail, May 20, 2013
...One of the most enduringly popular partnerships in Hollywood history ended today in 1946, when Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce solved their last case as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in Roy William Neill's Dressed to Kill. Released in this country as...
The Ealing Studios Rarities Volume One review
Den of Geek, May 7, 2013
...interesting, with much being made of their undercurrents of boredom and unhappiness and their own desire to escape. Nigel Bruce turns up very briefly as a policeman, and there's an unexpected denouement that certainly wouldn't turn up in the films of...
The Strange Case of Basil Rathbone: The Life and Work of the Man Who Made Olivier — and Audiences — Swoon
Bright Lights Film Journal, May 3, 2013
...clues, he's like an overeager hound himself. It may have been in response to this exuberance that Nigel Bruce conceived his Dr. Watson. Always a step behind and struggling to catch up, Bruce doesn't so much bumble as grumble. He's querulous and huffy,...
�Hound� unleashes mayhem at the Heartland theater
Kansas City Star, January 17, 2013
...The best-known film versions were released in 1939 by 20th Century Fox (with Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson in the first of 14 Holmes movies they would make) and 1959 (a Hammer Films production with Peter Cushing as Holmes, Andre...
'Hound' unleashes mayhem at the Heartland theater
Kansas City Star, January 16, 2013
...The best-known film versions were released in 1939 by 20th Century Fox (with Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson in the first of 14 Holmes movies they would make) and 1959 (a Hammer Films production with Peter Cushing as Holmes, Andre...