page_title: Sherlock Holmes (play)
section_title: Adaptations
hierarchical_section_title: Sherlock Holmes (play) / Adaptations
caption_attribution_description: English: William Gillette in Sherlock Holmes (1916).
context_page_description: Sherlock Holmes is a four-act play by William Gillette and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, based on Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes. After three previews it premiered on Broadway November 6, 1899, at the Garrick Theatre in New York City.
context_section_description: In 1916, a silent film of the play also entitled Sherlock Holmes featured William Gillette in the role of Holmes and has been called "the most elaborate of the early movies". It is one of the earliest American film adaptations of the Holmes character. Long thought to be a lost film, a print of the film was found in the Cinémathèque Française's collection in October 2014.  It was restored and screened in 2015. 
  The play was once again filmed in 1922, this time with John Barrymore donning the deerstalker. 1932 brought another adaptation of Gillette's play, with Clive Brook taking over the role in Sherlock Holmes.
  On September 25, 1938, Orson Welles starred in his own radio adaption of Sherlock Holmes for The Mercury Theatre on the Air. The cast included Ray Collins as Dr. Watson, Mary Taylor as Alice Faulkner, Brenda Forbes as Madge Larrabee, Edgar Barrier as James Larrabee, Morgan Farley as Inspector Forman, Richard Wilson as Craigin, Alfred Shirley as Bassick, William Alland as Leary, Arthur Anderson as Billy, and Eustace Wyatt as Professor Moriarty. Music was conducted by Bernard Herrmann.
  The 1939 film The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the second film to star Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson, is credited as an adaptation of the play, though they bear little resemblance.
  In 1953, BBC Home Service dramatized the play with Carleton Hobbs as Holmes and Norman Shelley as Watson.
  In 1979 composer Raimonds Pauls and songwriter, poet Jānis Peters wrote a musical Šerloks Holmss. It premiered in Dailes Theatre with Valentīns Skulme as Holmes and Gunārs Placēns as Watson. There was a 2006 revival, again in Dailes Theatre.
caption: William Gillette (center) in the Essanay Studios film adaptation of the play,  Sherlock Holmes (1916)
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