Patrick Horgan

From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Patrick Horgan as Captain Gregg in the musical Baker Street: A Musical Adventure of Sherlock Holmes (1965)
Patrick Horgan as Sherlock Holmes in the play The Speckled Band: An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes (1975-1976)
Patrick Horgan as Sherlock Holmes in the play Sherlock Holmes and The Speckled Band (1990)
Patrick Horgan as Sherlock Holmes in the Lennox Gas Furnaces TV commercial (1990)

John Patrick Horgan (born 26 may 1929) is an British actor who played played Captain Gregg in 1965 in the musical Baker Street: A Musical Adventure of Sherlock Holmes with Fritz Weaver as Sherlock Holmes and Peter Sallis as Dr. Watson.

In 1975, he played Sir Edward Leighton in the play Sherlock Holmes with John Wood as Sherlock Holmes, then he replaced Wood as Holmes for a few weeks (see play) before being himself replaced by John Neville as the detective and going back again to his role of Sir Edward Leighton for 6 more months. The same year, Horgan played Sherlock Holmes in Canada in The Speckled Band: An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes with Owen Foran as Dr. Watson.

In june 1975, "nice guy" (as the press wrote), he gave his voice to The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Return of Sherlock Holmes for The American Foundation for the Blind.

In 1990, he was Sherlock Holmes again in Sherlock Holmes and the Speckled Band with Geoff Garland as Dr. Watson, and in a TV commercial for Lennox Gas Furnaces with Alexander Sandy Marshall as Dr. Watson.



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