# Who was the best Sherlock Holmes?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-best-sherlock-holmes/853680>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 13, 2020, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-best-sherlock-holmes/853680 "2020-05-13T00:46:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-best-sherlock-holmes/853680/1 "2020-05-13T00:46:36Z")

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Your pick for the best actor to portray Holmes in any performance medium to include radio, television, film or stage adaption.

Out of personal prejudice and to keep things from getting too unwieldy, I left out animated versions (prefer to omit Alvin and the Chipmunks, for example), video games and selected abominations like Will Ferrell.

Undoubtedly the poll choices omit somebody’s favorite, so feel free to write in your candidate.

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**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-best-sherlock-holmes/853680/2 "2020-05-13T01:22:21Z")

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Jeremy Brett

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**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-best-sherlock-holmes/853680/3 "2020-05-13T03:13:06Z")

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OP made a poll [here](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=896109)…

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-best-sherlock-holmes/853680/4 "2020-05-13T03:55:26Z")

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**Moderator Action**

This is a duplicate, and it is missing the poll. Follow the link that digs posted for the proper thread.

Closed.