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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[File:1937-murderatthebaskervilles-01.png|thumb|250px|right|Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes in [[Silver Blaze (movie 1937)|Murder at the Baskervilles]] (1941)]]<br />
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Arthur Wontner (21 january 1875 - 10 july 1960) was a British actor who played [[Sherlock Holmes]] in 5 movies from 1931 to 1937. He was 56 when he played Sherlock Holmes at the cinema for the first time in [[The Sleeping Cardinal]] in 1931, [[The Missing Rembrandt]] in 1932, [[The Sign of Four (movie 1932)|The Sign of Four]] the same year, [[the Triumph of Sherlock Holmes]] in 1935 and [[Silver Blaze (movie 1937)|Silver Blaze]] in 1937.<br />
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He played Sherlock Holmes on radio as well in 1943 in one show : [[The Boscombe Valley Mystery (radio 1943)|The Boscombe Valley Mystery]] with [[Carleton Hobbs]] as Dr. Watson.<br />
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And on television in 1951, for the Festival of Britain and for the Sherlock Holmes Exhibition in London, he appeared in a short newsreel alongside Denis Conan Doyle : [[The Return of Sherlock Holmes (newsreel 1951)|The Return of Sherlock Holmes]].<br />
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== Cinema ==<br />
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* 1931 : [[The Sleeping Cardinal]] (as [[Sherlock Holmes]])<br />
* 1932 : [[The Missing Rembrandt]] (as [[Sherlock Holmes]])<br />
* 1932 : [[The Sign of Four (movie 1932)|The Sign of Four]] (as [[Sherlock Holmes]])<br />
* 1935 : [[The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes]] (as [[Sherlock Holmes]])<br />
* 1937 : [[Silver Blaze (movie 1937)|Silver Blaze]] (as [[Sherlock Holmes]])<br />
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== Radio ==<br />
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* 1943 : [[The Boscombe Valley Mystery (radio 1943)|The Boscombe Valley Mystery]] (as [[Sherlock Holmes]])<br />
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== TV ==<br />
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* 1951 : [[The Return of Sherlock Holmes (newsreel 1951)|The Return of Sherlock Holmes (newsreel)]] (as himself)<br />
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* [[Gallery of Sherlock Holmes performers]]<br />
* [[Conan Doyle on screen]]<br />
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[[category:Sherlock Holmes performers|Wontner]]</div>TCDE-Team