List of actors who have played Sherlock Holmes

Table columns:
Name
Title
Date
Type

Table rows:
cells: C.H.E. Brookfield
Under The Clock[13]
1893
Stage (Royal Court Theatre)
cells: John Webb
Sherlock Holmes[14]
1894
Stage (Royalty Theatre, Glasgow)
cells: William Gillette
Sherlock Holmes
1899
Stage (Broadway)
cells: The Painful Predicament of Sherlock Holmes[15]
1905
Stage (Metropolitan Opera House)
cells: John F. Preston
The Bank of England: An Adventure in the Life of Sherlock Holmes[16]
1900
Stage (Clapham)
cells: Walter Edwards
The Sign of the Four[15]
1903
Stage (West End Theater)
cells: Harry Arthur Saintsbury
Sherlock Holmes
1903–1910
Stage (London)
cells: The Speckled Band[17]
1910
Stage (London)
cells: H. Hamilton Stewart
Sherlock Holmes[18]
1906-1918
Stage (England)
cells: Ferdinand Bonn
Sherlock Holmes[19]
1906
Stage (Berliner Theatre)
cells: Der Hund Von Baskerville[19]
1907
Stage (Berliner Theatre)
cells: Dennis Neilson-Terry
The Crown Diamond[20]
1921
Stage (London)
cells: Eille Norwood
The Return of Sherlock Holmes[21]
1923
Stage (UK)
cells: Hamilton Deane
Sherlock Holmes[22]
1923-1932
Stage (UK)
cells: Tod Slaughter
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1928
Stage (England)
cells: Felix Aylmer
The Holmeses of Baker Street[21]
1933
Stage (Lyceum Theatre)
cells: Tod Slaughter
Sherlock Holmes
1930 (~)
Stage
cells: Basil Rathbone
"Sherlock Holmes" by Ouida Bergère[23]
1953
Stage play
cells: Fritz Weaver
Baker Street[24]
1965
Stage musical (Broadway Theatre, NYC)
cells: John Neville
Sherlock Holmes[25]
1973 (~)
Stage (Royal Shakespeare Company)
cells: John Wood
Sherlock Holmes
1974–1976
Stage (Broadway)
cells: Leonard Nimoy
Sherlock Holmes
1976
Stage (Royal Shakespeare Company)
cells: Frank Langella
Sherlock Holmes[26]
1977, 1980 (filmed for HBO)
Stage revival (Williamstown Theater Festival)
cells: Sherlock's Last Case[27]
1987
Stage (Nederlander Theatre)
cells: Paxton Whitehead
The Crucifer of Blood
1978
Stage (Broadway)
cells: Keith Michell
The Crucifer of Blood
1979
Stage (London)
cells: Keith Baxter
The Penultimate Problem of Sherlock Holmes[28]
1980
Stage (Off-Broadway)
cells: Murder, My Dear Watson
1983
Stage
cells: Paul Singleton
Grit in a Sensitive Instrument
1980, 1982
Stage (regional theatre, Off-Broadway), cable TV
cells: The Blue Carbuncle
2007–2008
Stage (Off Broadway, Los Angeles)
cells: Charlton Heston
The Crucifer of Blood
1981
Stage (Los Angeles)
cells: Sherlock's Last Case
1990
Stage (Broadway)
cells: Tom Baker
The Mask of Moriarty[29]
1985
Stage (Dublin)
cells: Jeremy Brett
The Secret of Sherlock Holmes
1988–89
Stage (touring, British)
cells: Time Winters
Sherlock Holmes and the Hands of Othello
1987
Stage (Off-Off Broadway, NY)
cells: Ron Moody
Sherlock Holmes: The Musical
1989
Stage
cells: Javier Marzan
The Hound of the Baskervilles[30]
2007
Stage (West Yorkshire Playhouse)
cells: Julien Masdoua
Le Cabaret Sherlock Holmes
2013
Stage (France)
cells: Benjamin Lawlor
The Hound of the Baskervilles
2013
Stage (UK)
cells: Simon Michael Morgan
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol
2013
Stage (Britain)
cells: Gregory Wooddell
Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery[31]
2015
Arena Stage in Southwest, Washington, D.C.
cells: Euan Morton
Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery[32]
2015
Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California
cells: Paul Andrew Goldsmith
Sherlock Holmes & the Case of the Christmas Carol[33]
2015–2016
UK theatre tour
cells: Jay Taylor
Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery[34]
2017-2018
Liverpool Playhouse

Questions about this table:
originalText: who was the first actor to play sherlock holmes
answer: answerTexts: C.H.E. Brookfield