The Various Digital Footprints of Sherlock Holmes
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At this very moment in time, in fact, there are a handful of well-regarded, popular, ongoing, and high profile properties featuring the character, and the public’s interest in his continuing adventures (or endless revivals and reinterpretations of his old ones) — over 120 years since Conan Doyle first introduced the character — seemingly hasn’t waned a bit.
The BBC’s extremely popular contemporary production, simply entitled Sherlock, is set to air a one-off special this upcoming Christmas Day. A sneak preview photo has just today hit the Web, which you can check out below, and read more about here.
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In honor of all current and ongoing Holmesian brouhaha, we’ve concocted the list below. This is by no means a comprehensive survey of every actor to ever play the part, but is instead a list which compares the online existences — in terms of size, impact, influence, and prominence, etc. — of today’s most high profile Sherlocks, with those actors most historically and frequently associated with the part.
Rank | Picture | Name | Plays/played Holmes in | Current PeekScore |
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Robert Downey, Jr. | Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes movies | 10.00 / 10.00 |
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Benedict Cumberbatch | BBC’s Sherlock | 10.00 / 10.00 |
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Jonny Lee Miller | CBS’ Elementary | 8.04 / 10.00 |
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Basil Rathbone | Fourteen Hollywood feature films | 7.57 / 10.00 |
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Jeremy Brett | Granada TV’s The Advenures of Sherlock Holmes | 7.33 / 10.00 |
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Igor Petrenko | 2013 Russian TV series | 7.03 / 10.00 |
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Vasily Livanov | Numerous Russian films made in the 70s and 80s | 7.02 / 10.00 |
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Eille Norwood | Forty-seven 1920s silent films | 7.00 / 10.00 |
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William Gillette | Over 1,300 stage performances around the world | 6.21 / 10.00 |