Arthur Wontner

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Arthur Wontner 21 January 1875 10 July 1960 was a British actor best known for playing Sir Arthur Conan Doyles 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 Doyles 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 titleMurder 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 Wontners 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 Rathbones version of The Hound of the Baskervilles In many respects Wontners film can be seen as a sequel as it is set twenty years after the events of the more famous story Wontners son became the wellknown hotelier and Lord Mayor of London Sir Hugh Wontner Description above from the Wikipedia article Arthur Wontnerlicensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia