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The Hound of the Baskervilles (a.k.a. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles) is a 1983 British made-for-television mystery thriller film directed by Douglas Hickox, starring Ian Richardson as Sherlock Holmes and Donald Churchill as Dr. John H. Watson.
Nov 3, 1983 · With Ian Richardson, Donald Churchill, Denholm Elliott, Glynis Barber. Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near his estate and murders people.
Richardson also performed the role of Sherlock Holmes for two of six planned television movies, The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles, in 1983, which were both critically acclaimed.
Ian Richardson (7 april 1934 - 9 february 2007) was a British actor who played Sherlock Holmes in 2 TV movies The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles. He was also Dr. Joseph Bell in the Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes series in 2000-2001 with Robin Laing and Charles Edwards as Arthur Conan Doyle .
After delivering highly capable performances as Field-Marshal Montgomery in both Churchill and the Generals (1979) and Ike: The War Years (1979), Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983), and Indian Prime Minister Nehru in Masterpiece Theatre: Lord Mountbatten - The Last Viceroy (1986), he capped his small-screen career in the ...
A serial killer, loose in 1870s Edinburgh, is pursued by history's real Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Joseph Bell (Ian Richardson), assisted by the young Arthur Conan Doyle (Robin Laing). Part fact, part fiction, the plot is based on the newly discovered activities of Bell, who was Doyle's real-life model for Sherlock Holmes.
The Sign of Four (a.k.a. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four) is a 1983 British made-for-television mystery film directed by Desmond Davis and starring Ian Richardson and David Healy. The film is based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1890 novel of the same name, the second novel to feature Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson.
