Arthur Wontner
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21
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Arthur Wontner (21 January 1875 – 10 July 1960) was a British actor best known for playing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's master detective Sherlock Holmes in five films from 1931 to 1937. These films are:
The Sleeping Cardinal (1931) (US title: Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour) based on Doyle's two stories, "The Adventure of the Empty House" and "The Final Problem"
The Missing Rembrandt (1932) (still considered lost) based on "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton"
The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case (1932)
The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935) based on The Valley of Fear
Silver Blaze (1937) (US title:Murder at the Baskervilles, release 1941) based on "Silver Blaze"
Reportedly, Wontner landed the role of Sherlock Holmes thanks to his performance of Holmes imitation Sexton Blake in a 1930 stage production.
Of all Wontner's films as Sherlock Holmes, The Missing Rembrandt is no longer available. It is officially a lost film. It is possible to obtain all of the others.
Silver Blaze was renamed Murder at the Baskervilles on its US release in order to make the most of the publicity which had been generated by Basil Rathbone's version of The Hound of the Baskervilles. In many respects Wontner's film can be seen as a sequel as it is set twenty years after the events of the more famous story.
Wontner's son became the well-known hotelier and Lord Mayor of London Sir Hugh Wontner.
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Silver Blaze
Sherlock Holmes
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Baron de Baudrec
Dishonour Bright
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Embassy Counsellor
Blanche Fury
Lord Rudford
Genevieve
Old Gentleman
Brandy for the Parson
Major Glockleigh
Kate Plus Ten
Colonel Westhanger
The Elusive Pimpernel
Lord Grenville
Pygmalion
Colonel Pickering
The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case
Sherlock Holmes
Storm in a Teacup
Fiscal
The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
Thunder in the City
Sir Peter
The Missing Rembrandt
Sherlock Holmes
The Sleeping Cardinal
Sherlock Holmes
Condemned to Death
Sir Charles Wallington
Lady Windermere's Fan
Lord Darlington
The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes (archive footage)
A Gentleman of Paris
Judge Le Fevre
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Lord Kingsburgh