David Bret
David Bret( born 8 November 1954) is a British author of show business biographies.
He chiefly writes on the private life of film stars and singers.
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (born Samuel Wilder, June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than five decades.
He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of the Hollywood Golden Age of cinema.
With "The Apartment", Wilder became the first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director, and screenwriter for the same film.
Wilder became a screenwriter in the late 1920s while living in Berlin.
After the rise of the Nazi Party, he left for Paris, where he made his directorial debut.
He moved to Hollywood in 1933, and in 1939 he had a hit when he co-wrote the screenplay for the romantic comedy "Ninotchka", starring Greta Garbo.
Wilder established his directorial reputation with an adaption of James M. Cain's "Double Indemnity" (1944), a film noir.
Wilder co-wrote the screenplay with crime novelist Raymond Chandler.
Wilder earned the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the adaptation of a Charles R. Jackson story "The Lost Weekend" (1945), about alcoholism.
In 1950, Wilder co-wrote and directed the critically acclaimed "Sunset Boulevard", as well as "Stalag 17" in 1953.
From the mid-1950s on, Wilder made mostly comedies.
Among the classics Wilder created in this period are the farces "The Seven Year Itch" (1955) and
"Some Like It Hot" (1959), and satires such as "The Apartment" (1960).
He directed fourteen different actors in Oscar-nominated performances.
Wilder was recognized with the American Film Institute (AFI)
Life Achievement Award in 1986.
In 1988, Wilder was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
In 1993, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
Sophie Ward
Sophie Anna Ward( born 30 December 1964) is an English actress.
Early in her career she played Elizabeth Hardy, the love interest of Sherlock Holmes in the film" Young Sherlock Holmes".
John Patrick Lowrie
John Patrick Lowrie( born June 28, 1952 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American voice actor, actor, musician and author best known for voicing the Sniper in" Team Fortress 2" and various characters in" Dota 2".
He has played Sherlock Holmes on the radio dramas" The Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" and" The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"( Imagination Theater, Jim French Productions) longer than any other actor in history, including Basil Rathbone.
Samuel Rosenberg (writer)
Samuel Rosenberg
( 1912 – January 5, 1996) was an American writer and photographer.
He is best known for his 1974 study of Sherlock Holmes titled" Naked is the Best Disguise"( subtitled" The Death and Resurrection of Sherlock Holmes").
His other notable book is" The Confessions of a Trivialist"( originally published as" The Come As You Are Masquerade Party").
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is a 1970 DeLuxe Color film in Panavision written and produced by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, and directed by Wilder.
The film offers an affectionate, slightly parodic look at Sherlock Holmes, and draws a distinction between the "real" Holmes and the character portrayed by Watson in his stories for "The Strand" magazine.
It stars Robert Stephens as Holmes and Colin Blakely as Doctor Watson.
Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, the creators and writers of the BAFTA and Emmy
Award-winning series "Sherlock", credited "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" as a source of inspiration for their show.
Michael Hardwick and Mollie Hardwick authored a novelization of the film.
Roger Llewellyn
Roger Llewellyn was a British actor.
He played Sherlock Holmes in 1997, 2007 and 2008 in stage versions of" The Hound of the Baskervilles Sherlock Holmes The Last Act" and" The Death and Life of Sherlock Holmes".
In 2009 he played Sherlock Holmes again in the Big Finish Sherlock Holmes audio series in the stories" The Last Act" and" The Death and Life".
The Private Life of Cinema
The Private Life of Cinema is a 2011 documentary by Quebec film director and producer Denys Desjardins.
Colin Blakely
Colin George Blakely( 23 September 1930 – 7 May 1987) was a Northern Irish actor.
He is perhaps known for his roles in the films" A Man for All Seasons"( 1966)," The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes"( 1970)," Murder on the Orient Express"( 1974), and" Equus"( 1977).
Kenneth Benda
Charles Kenneth Anton Benda
( 3 June 1902 – 26 July 1978) was an English actor often on television.
He appeared in British television series" No Hiding Place The Saint The AvengersZ- Cars The PrisonerDoctor WhoDoomwatch" and films" The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes The Ruling ClassHorror Hospital The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know ItInternational Velvet" and others.
His stage appearances included small roles at The Old Vic and with Peter Hall's National Theatre company.

Question: What is the date of death of the director of film The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes?
Answer: March 27, 2002