What year was the actor who played Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock born?
Benedict Cumberbatch Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch CBE (born 19 July 1976) is an English actor who has performed in film, television, theatre and radio. He is the son of actors Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham. Cumberbatch graduated from the University of Manchester and continued his training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, obtaining a Master of Arts in Classical Acting. He first performed at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park in Shakespearean productions and made his West End debut portraying George Tesman in Richard Eyre's revival of "Hedda Gabler" in 2005. Since then he has starred in the Royal National Theatre productions "After the Dance" (2010) and "Frankenstein" (2011). In 2015, he played William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" at the Barbican Theatre.
Sherlock Holmes (1932 film) Sherlock Holmes is a 1932 American Pre-Code film starring Clive Brook as the eponymous London detective. The movie is based on the successful stage play "Sherlock Holmes" by William Gillette, in turn based on the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, and is directed by William K. Howard for the Fox Film Corporation. Brook had played Holmes three years previously in "The Return of Sherlock Holmes".