Liane Hansen's 1991 NPR (National Public Radio) interview with Jeremy Brett. (in which he discusses his interpretation of "you-know-who's" character and the two "Watsons")
As a 58 year old American, and lifelong fan of Sherlock Holmes... Jeremy Brett is the most authentic Holmes I have ever seen portrayed. I delighted each week to a new episode when originally broadcast, and I have yet to see a "better" Holmes. Jeremy Brett IS Sherlock Holmes!!!
Thank you Jeremy . Sir Arthur Conan Doyle daughter said to Jeremy Brett you are the Holmes of my Childhood. The ultimate Honor . Rest is peace Jeremy!!! Missed everyday
I was always a fan of ACD and Sherlock Holmes. The first time I saw Jeremy's Holmes portrayal back in the 80s, I recognised the Holmes of my imagination come to life. He will always be Holmes to me!
i cannot express how grateful I am for you posting this rare and valuable interview with Jeremy Brett. I recently saw Granada Production of Sherlock Holmes and saw life being breathed into the greatest detective in the literary world. Having a glimpse of the brilliant man behind the face of Sherlock Holmes was a wonderful treat. Thank you so much!
Superb acting , his face expressions are remarkable , and his eyes hide many secrets, watched this serial when growing up and still love it know , best holmes character played ever like a real sherlock holmes.......so much to say 😘😘😘
Thank you for posting this, and with all these beautiful and well-chosen pictures too. Excuse me while I go cry into a pillow and watch the entire Granada series again. :')
He was the best. Even though it was Basil Rathbone who brought me first to Sherlock Holmes I fell in love in love with him completely when Brett took the part
A great actor... totally on a different level then most shallow so called actors today. I'm American and a artist that make's me love to see people like this...set apart in the momentum of their art. God bless!
We need more actors like this that fight for the accurate portrayal of a writer's material. Granted every story or novel needs _some_ adaptation to bring it to the screen but I think screenwriters and directors sometimes (many times?) take far too many liberties with the material.
I agree 1000% - the newest "imaginings" of Holmes as shown on TV (with a female Watson) or on the BBC or by *shudder* Downey Jr. are about as far from ACD's character as can possibly be imagined.
As a 69 years old Scot and life long A C Doyle fan (I was brought up about 100 yards from his birth place) I salute Jeremy Brett as the best ever Sherlock Holmes. I read Doyle and see Brett in my head. I so wish he had been able to finish the canon.
Thank you for posting this . :') I think it's simply wonderful to hear him converse and laugh as the man he is (having never stumbled upon these audios before), and to be able to listen to this is feels very much a privilege.
@SherlockOnBrain: You are most welcome, and thank you for the insights. David Stuart Davies described Brett as a perfectionist in Bending the Willow; when it came to Holmes and the scripts he insisted on keeping to Doyle's words, not compromise them with unnecessary rewrites...today we can enjoy the results of his tireless efforts.
Basil Rathbone may well have been Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes... but to so many people, Jeremy Brett is the definitive Holmes - no-one else comes close.
Those who have played Sherlock Holmes since 1893: Charles Brookfield - 1893 William Gillette - 1899-1930 - 1300 Performances over 30 yrs. Sherlock Holmes movie Baffled - 1900 Silent/Short - Max Goldberg John F. Preston - 1900 Charles Rice - 1904 Karoly Baumann - 1905 Maurice Costello - 1905 Viggo Larsen - 1908 Alwin NeuB - 1908, 1911, 1914 Otto Lagoni - 1910 Holger Rasmussen - 1911 Mack Sennett - 1911-1912 George Treville - 1912 Harry Benham - 1913 James Bragington - 1914 Francis Ford - 1914 H.A. Saintbury - 1916 Hugo Fink - 1917 Sam Robinson - 1918 Eille Norwood - 1921 Silent short movie - The Dying Detective Burt Lytell - 1921 Dennis Neillson-Terry - 1921 John Barrymore - 1922 Hamilton Deane - 1923-1932 Tod Slaughter - 1928, 1930 Richard Gordon - 1930-1933, 1936 Clive Brook - 1929/1930/1932 Arthur Wontner - 1931- 1937 - Movie Series Raymond Massey - 1931 Robert Rendel - 1932 Reginald Owen - 1933 Felix Alymer - 1933 Louis Hector - 1934-1935, 1937 Bruno Guttner - 1937, 1939, 1942-1943 Orson Welles - 1938 Basil Rathbone - 1939-1946 Cedric Hardwick - 1945 Tom Conway - 1947 Howard Marion-Crawford - 1948 John Stanley - 1948-1949 Alan Napier - 1949 John Longden - 1951 Laidman Browne - 1951 Carleton Hobbs - 1952-1969 Ronald Howard - 1954 (39 episodes) Sir John Gielgud - 1954-1955 Peter Cushing - 1959, 1968, 1984 Christopher Lee - 1962, 1970, 1992 Douglas Wilmer - 1964 John Neville - 1965, 1970, 1978 Robert Stephens - 1970 Stewart Granger - 1972 John Cleese - 1973 Larry Hagman - 1974 Robert Powell - 1974 John Wood - 1974-1975 Leonard Nimoy - 1976 Kevin McCarthy - 1977 Roger Moore - 1976 Nicol Williamson - 1976 Christopher Plummer - 1977 Peter Cook - 1977 Paxton Whitehead - 1978 Geoffrey Whitehead - 1979-1980 Keith Mitchell - 1979 Charlton Heston - 1980 Frank Langella - 1980 Vasily Livanov - Russian TV - 1979-1981, 1983 & 1986 John Moffatt - 1981 Guy Henry - 1982 Tom Baker - 1982 Ian Richardson - 1983 Peter O’Toole - 1983 (animated TV films - Australian) Jeremy Brett - 1984-1994 Nicholas Rowe - 1984 Dinsdale Landen - 1987 Guy Rolfe - 1984 Tim Pigott-Smith - 1987 Anthony Higgins - 1987 Michael Pennington - 1987 Roger Rees - 1988 Ron Moody - 1988-1989 Clive Merrison - 1989-1998, 2002, 2004, 2008-2010 Edward Woodward - 1990 Simon Callow - 1990 Richard E. Grant 1992 Robert Powell - 1993 Patrick McNee - 1993 Anthony Higgins - 1993 1998-2019: John Gilbert - Episodes 1-18 Lawrence Albert - Episode 20 John Patrick Lowrie - Episodes 21-65 & 67-until Dennis Bateman - Episode 66 Matt Frewer - 2000-2001 Joaquim de Almeida - 2001 Richard Roxburgh - 2002 James D’Arcy - 2002 Andrew Sachs - 2004 Rupert Everett - 2004 Jonathan Pryce - 2007 Javier Marzan - 2007 Roger Llewellyn - 2009 Ben Syder - 2010 Nicholas Briggs - 2010-2018 Johnny Lee Miller - 2012-2019 Benjamin Lawlor - 2013 Igor Petrenko - Russian TV Series - 2013 Robert Downey Jr. 2009 & 2011 Benedict Cumberbatch - 2010-2016 Nicholas Briggs - 2010-2018 Christian Rode - 2010, 2014 Seamus Dever - 2014 Ian McKellen - 2015 Euan Morton - 2015 Gregory Wooddell - 2015 Paul Andrew Goldsmith - 2015-2016 Ewen Bremner - 2016 Jay Taylor - 2017-2018 Yuko Takeuchi - 2018 (HBO Asia - female ‘Holmes’) Orlando Wells - 2018 Samuel Tady - 2011, 2014, 2017-2018 (Tady Bros. Productions/on YTube) Johnny Depp - 2018 (animation) Will Ferrell - 2018 Nicholas Boulton - 2020 Henry Cavill - 2020 Ethan Bell - 2020 (Fan Film on TH-cam) Ethan Thomas Jung - 2020 Fan Adv. (Vagabond Repertory Theater Company-TH-cam) This list is not exhaustive. however, these are some of the many actors who have played Sherlock Holmes on stage, screen, radio and TV adaptations.
@SherlockOnBrain: I'd heard they were going to be publishing an updated edition of "...Willow." Will have to keep my eyes open for it. When I'm home on holiday break, I am hoping to upload a rare recording of "The Life & Death of Sherlock Holmes" he did with Edward Hardwicke. (allow me to shamelessly solicit your subscription, should you be interested...) Cheers, m'coll
@SherlockOnBrain: Oh thank you, darling - I'd post to you directly, but you're confoundingly "unavailable." Anyway, do stop by; will have something new up for you before long. xo
Why do the other versions of Holmes have him smoking one of those short curved pipes while here in the true Jeremy Brett version he uses the long stick like pipes?
B.A.P. - HANDS UP #비에이피와_허니문 Because the curved pipes are easier to use when the actor is putting the pipe on his mouth while talking. Curved pipes wouldn't wiggle as much. In Brett's case, as far as I remember, he never talk with a pipe in his mouth. He always elegantly put away his pipe first before talking.
Spock the Dog Exactly! Don’t get me wrong I adore Benedict’s and Rathbone’s renditions. But Brett was amazing. He took a role and he put an eccentric spin on it. And I payed off! Jeremy Brett! The best!
Lovvies who laboured and lost - Brett and Hardwick will forever be reviled as ham actors who failed to convince. I simply loathe both of their performances as Holmes and Watson. They failed to get it.
As a 58 year old American, and lifelong fan of Sherlock Holmes...
Jeremy Brett is the most authentic Holmes I have ever seen portrayed.
I delighted each week to a new episode when originally broadcast, and I have yet to see a "better" Holmes.
Jeremy Brett IS Sherlock Holmes!!!
Russian Sherlock Holmes got Quinn Elizabeth recognition. Very good movies!
Thank you Jeremy . Sir Arthur Conan Doyle daughter said to Jeremy Brett you are the Holmes of my Childhood. The ultimate Honor . Rest is peace Jeremy!!! Missed everyday
Jeremy Brett is the most convincing Sherlock Holmes ever.
I could listen to Jeremy Brett talk about anything all day.
Jeremy was the quintessential Holmes.No one will ever play Holmes better.
Jeremy Brett was our Holmes and the best ever . We will never see the like of his greatness again . Jeremy is Timeless !!!
Brett was the quintessential Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle would have LOVED HIM!
Best Sherlock Holmes ever, he IS Sherlock Holmes .
He was an actor's actor.
Simply breathtaking.
What a marvel he was!
Totally fell in love with Jeremy Brett he is by far the best Holmes and you could listen to him talk forever love his voice
Beautiful interview, touching answers, lovely man. So exuberant in his person.
What an extraordinary man Brett was!
I was always a fan of ACD and Sherlock Holmes. The first time I saw Jeremy's Holmes portrayal back in the 80s, I recognised the Holmes of my imagination come to life. He will always be Holmes to me!
Indeed,i totally agree with you.
i cannot express how grateful I am for you posting this rare and valuable interview with Jeremy Brett. I recently saw Granada Production of Sherlock Holmes and saw life being breathed into the greatest detective in the literary world. Having a glimpse of the brilliant man behind the face of Sherlock Holmes was a wonderful treat.
Thank you so much!
He was absolutely brilliant as Holmes. There has never been a better Holmes, magnetic.
9 years later +1
That beautiful voice can only belong to the great detective now..
Lestrade `we`re not jealous of you at Scotland yard,no sir,we`re proud of you.`
That laugh....oh god. I've never heard anyone laugh with such utter joy.
Superb acting , his face expressions are remarkable , and his eyes hide many secrets, watched this serial when growing up and still love it know , best holmes character played ever like a real sherlock holmes.......so much to say 😘😘😘
Thank you for posting this, and with all these beautiful and well-chosen pictures too. Excuse me while I go cry into a pillow and watch the entire Granada series again. :')
He was the best. Even though it was Basil Rathbone who brought me first to Sherlock Holmes I fell in love in love with him completely when Brett took the part
How I wish Jeremy got to complete the Holmes canon as was supposedly planned. What an achievement that would've been!
I read that there were a few stories that were not as interesting to film, such as "The Beryl Coronet".
Jeremy Brett is THE ONLY HOLMES TO ME
Cried so much listening to this. Brett is a brilliant individual..
may god bless your son
Jeremy incomparable.Inmortal.
Thanks SO much for posting this!!! Jeremy was sensational... As Holmes and as... Jeremy!
What a masterpiece. Love Mr. Holmes!, I mean Mr. Brett.
A great actor... totally on a different level then most shallow so called actors today. I'm American and a artist that make's me love to see people like this...set apart in the momentum of their art. God bless!
Thank you so much. I've read and heard a lot about what he said, but to hear his words is so much the more filling and enriching. Thank you
I'm your fan Jeremy for ever
We need more actors like this that fight for the accurate portrayal of a writer's material. Granted every story or novel needs _some_ adaptation to bring it to the screen but I think screenwriters and directors sometimes (many times?) take far too many liberties with the material.
I agree 1000% - the newest "imaginings" of Holmes as shown on TV (with a female Watson) or on the BBC or by *shudder* Downey Jr. are about as far from ACD's character as can possibly be imagined.
As a 69 years old Scot and life long A C Doyle fan (I was brought up about 100 yards from his birth place) I salute Jeremy Brett as the best ever Sherlock Holmes. I read Doyle and see Brett in my head. I so wish he had been able to finish the canon.
Captured completely, on the Granada series...
WOW
one of the most amazing interviews I ever heard
The them music and the pictures make it more wonderful. Thank you so much.
I’ve become such a fan….kind of late to discover how great he and the entire cast and production was. ❤
Thank you for posting this . :') I think it's simply wonderful to hear him converse and laugh as the man he is (having never stumbled upon these audios before), and to be able to listen to this is feels very much a privilege.
My god THANK YOU!!!THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS!!!!! Amazing to hear him like this...truly I'm grateful to you for posting this rare jewel :)
@SherlockOnBrain: You are most welcome, and thank you for the insights. David Stuart Davies described Brett as a perfectionist in Bending the Willow; when it came to Holmes and the scripts he insisted on keeping to Doyle's words, not compromise them with unnecessary rewrites...today we can enjoy the results of his tireless efforts.
I have that book.
Tnx for sharing.
Now we know what mr j brett is like.
Remarkable human being.
Thank you so much for posting. JB=icon.
Maravilloso hombre .... te extrañamos mucho
Brilliant actor 💝🌹😔
Basil Rathbone may well have been Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes... but to so many people, Jeremy Brett is the definitive Holmes - no-one else comes close.
Thanks for posting this!
Thank you so much for sharing this with us! :D
You're very welcome - thanks for watching.
After 35 age he was interesting and fullness man
Thank you for posting !
Those who have played Sherlock Holmes since 1893:
Charles Brookfield - 1893
William Gillette - 1899-1930 - 1300 Performances over 30 yrs.
Sherlock Holmes movie Baffled - 1900 Silent/Short - Max Goldberg
John F. Preston - 1900
Charles Rice - 1904
Karoly Baumann - 1905
Maurice Costello - 1905
Viggo Larsen - 1908
Alwin NeuB - 1908, 1911, 1914
Otto Lagoni - 1910
Holger Rasmussen - 1911
Mack Sennett - 1911-1912
George Treville - 1912
Harry Benham - 1913
James Bragington - 1914
Francis Ford - 1914
H.A. Saintbury - 1916
Hugo Fink - 1917
Sam Robinson - 1918
Eille Norwood - 1921 Silent short movie - The Dying Detective
Burt Lytell - 1921
Dennis Neillson-Terry - 1921
John Barrymore - 1922
Hamilton Deane - 1923-1932
Tod Slaughter - 1928, 1930
Richard Gordon - 1930-1933, 1936
Clive Brook - 1929/1930/1932
Arthur Wontner - 1931- 1937 - Movie Series
Raymond Massey - 1931
Robert Rendel - 1932
Reginald Owen - 1933
Felix Alymer - 1933
Louis Hector - 1934-1935, 1937
Bruno Guttner - 1937, 1939, 1942-1943
Orson Welles - 1938
Basil Rathbone - 1939-1946
Cedric Hardwick - 1945
Tom Conway - 1947
Howard Marion-Crawford - 1948
John Stanley - 1948-1949
Alan Napier - 1949
John Longden - 1951
Laidman Browne - 1951
Carleton Hobbs - 1952-1969
Ronald Howard - 1954 (39 episodes)
Sir John Gielgud - 1954-1955
Peter Cushing - 1959, 1968, 1984
Christopher Lee - 1962, 1970, 1992
Douglas Wilmer - 1964
John Neville - 1965, 1970, 1978
Robert Stephens - 1970
Stewart Granger - 1972
John Cleese - 1973
Larry Hagman - 1974
Robert Powell - 1974
John Wood - 1974-1975
Leonard Nimoy - 1976
Kevin McCarthy - 1977
Roger Moore - 1976
Nicol Williamson - 1976
Christopher Plummer - 1977
Peter Cook - 1977
Paxton Whitehead - 1978
Geoffrey Whitehead - 1979-1980
Keith Mitchell - 1979
Charlton Heston - 1980
Frank Langella - 1980
Vasily Livanov - Russian TV - 1979-1981, 1983 & 1986
John Moffatt - 1981
Guy Henry - 1982
Tom Baker - 1982
Ian Richardson - 1983
Peter O’Toole - 1983 (animated TV films - Australian)
Jeremy Brett - 1984-1994
Nicholas Rowe - 1984
Dinsdale Landen - 1987
Guy Rolfe - 1984
Tim Pigott-Smith - 1987
Anthony Higgins - 1987
Michael Pennington - 1987
Roger Rees - 1988
Ron Moody - 1988-1989
Clive Merrison - 1989-1998, 2002, 2004, 2008-2010
Edward Woodward - 1990
Simon Callow - 1990
Richard E. Grant 1992
Robert Powell - 1993
Patrick McNee - 1993
Anthony Higgins - 1993
1998-2019: John Gilbert - Episodes 1-18
Lawrence Albert - Episode 20
John Patrick Lowrie - Episodes 21-65 & 67-until
Dennis Bateman - Episode 66
Matt Frewer - 2000-2001
Joaquim de Almeida - 2001
Richard Roxburgh - 2002
James D’Arcy - 2002
Andrew Sachs - 2004
Rupert Everett - 2004
Jonathan Pryce - 2007
Javier Marzan - 2007
Roger Llewellyn - 2009
Ben Syder - 2010
Nicholas Briggs - 2010-2018
Johnny Lee Miller - 2012-2019
Benjamin Lawlor - 2013
Igor Petrenko - Russian TV Series - 2013
Robert Downey Jr. 2009 & 2011
Benedict Cumberbatch - 2010-2016
Nicholas Briggs - 2010-2018
Christian Rode - 2010, 2014
Seamus Dever - 2014
Ian McKellen - 2015
Euan Morton - 2015
Gregory Wooddell - 2015
Paul Andrew Goldsmith - 2015-2016
Ewen Bremner - 2016
Jay Taylor - 2017-2018
Yuko Takeuchi - 2018 (HBO Asia - female ‘Holmes’)
Orlando Wells - 2018
Samuel Tady - 2011, 2014, 2017-2018 (Tady Bros. Productions/on YTube)
Johnny Depp - 2018 (animation)
Will Ferrell - 2018
Nicholas Boulton - 2020
Henry Cavill - 2020
Ethan Bell - 2020 (Fan Film on TH-cam)
Ethan Thomas Jung - 2020 Fan Adv.
(Vagabond Repertory Theater Company-TH-cam)
This list is not exhaustive. however, these are some of the
many actors
who have played Sherlock Holmes on stage,
screen, radio and TV adaptations.
Oh dear - did not wish to cause undue heartbreak, but thank you for watching. ;)
Thanks for this, are there more interviews? Thanks Thanks Thanks.
THE Sherlock Holmes
Es el mejor Sherlock Holmes ... Jeremy Brett es un excelente actor
Oh he had the stuff.
@DDX1944 My pleasure, and your enthusiasm is most appreciated. Happy New Year!
wow thanks for this upload. Its not even available on the npr links.
emeeeych it was on the NPR web pages for many years.
@doumokun1: you are most welcome; so glad you enjoy! ;D
Watchin others play Holmes is crime . lol. Salute.
@SherlockOnBrain: I'd heard they were going to be publishing an updated edition of "...Willow." Will have to keep my eyes open for it. When I'm home on holiday break, I am hoping to upload a rare recording of "The Life & Death of Sherlock Holmes" he did with Edward Hardwicke. (allow me to shamelessly solicit your subscription, should you be interested...) Cheers, m'coll
@SherlockOnBrain: Oh thank you, darling - I'd post to you directly, but you're confoundingly "unavailable." Anyway, do stop by; will have something new up for you before long. xo
He is a great Sherlock.
Great where is part 2.
Jeremy Brett ✨👏✨🤍 Stunning Wonderfullllllll Talented Precoiusidad Lindo Hot Charisma 👏✨👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
i believe william gillette started with that pipe on the stage, and the style simply stuck.
I think the character was portrayed with a pipe in the illustrations of the original publications of the Holmes stories.
Why do the other versions of Holmes have him smoking one of those short curved pipes while here in the true Jeremy Brett version he uses the long stick like pipes?
B.A.P. - HANDS UP #비에이피와_허니문 Because the curved pipes are easier to use when the actor is putting the pipe on his mouth while talking. Curved pipes wouldn't wiggle as much. In Brett's case, as far as I remember, he never talk with a pipe in his mouth. He always elegantly put away his pipe first before talking.
Why do they keep talking about Voldermort?
🧚♀️❤️
@jacksawild NPR is still doing a great job. Maybe that's why Congress wants to de-fund them?
@macolleague I shall certainly subscribe to you!
Doyle better read than acted, yet Brett can become characteristic of SH as Brett developed the willingness "to become".
Cigarettes killed him.
Don't smoke!
They were all rubbish before him. I love Rathbone but he was a Holmes of his age, like Cumberbatch.
Spock the Dog
Exactly!
Don’t get me wrong I adore Benedict’s and Rathbone’s renditions. But Brett was amazing. He took a role and he put an eccentric spin on it. And I payed off!
Jeremy Brett! The best!
Cumberbatch is mediocre and pointless.
Lovvies who laboured and lost - Brett and Hardwick will forever be reviled as ham actors who failed to convince. I simply loathe both of their performances as Holmes and Watson. They failed to get it.
LOL! Look at all the appreciation posted here. You failed to get it, not them.
What ARE you talking about, you silly person?