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Actor
Arthur Wontner
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Movies: 22Series: 0
TMDB ID: 97568
IMDb ID: nm0939454
Known for: Acting
Born: January 21, 1875
Died: July 10, 1960
Age: 85
Place of birth: London, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1916 - 1985
Years active: 70
Average TMDB rating: 6.43
Wikidata: Q615953
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Arthur Wontner (21 January 1875 – 10 July 1960) was a British actor best known for playing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 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 Doyle's 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 title:Murder 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 Wontner's 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 Rathbone's version of The Hound of the Baskervilles. In many respects Wontner's film can be seen as a sequel as it is set twenty years after the events of the more famous story. Wontner's son became the well-known hotelier and Lord Mayor of London Sir Hugh Wontner.
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8.0
The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes
as Sherlock Holmes (archive footage)
1985 Movie
6.6
Genevieve
as Old Gentleman
1953 Movie
5.8
Sea Devils
as Baron de Baudrec
1953 Movie
6.3
Brandy for the Parson
as Major Glockleigh
1952 Movie
5.9
The Elusive Pimpernel
as Lord Grenville
1950 Movie
6.0
Blanche Fury
as Lord Rudford
1948 Movie
Pygmalion
as Colonel Pickering
1948 Movie
7.5
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
as Embassy Counsellor
1943 Movie
6.3
The Terror
as Colonel Redmayne
1938 Movie
8.0
Kate Plus Ten
as Colonel Westhanger
1938 Movie
5.5
Silver Blaze
as Sherlock Holmes
1937 Movie
5.4
Thunder in the City
as Sir Peter
1937 Movie
7.5
Storm in a Teacup
as Fiscal
1937 Movie
5.0
Dishonour Bright
as Judge
1936 Movie
5.3
The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes
as Sherlock Holmes
1935 Movie
4.6
The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case
as Sherlock Holmes
1932 Movie
The Missing Rembrandt
as Sherlock Holmes
1932 Movie
Condemned to Death
as Sir Charles Wallington
1932 Movie
2.3
A Gentleman of Paris
as Judge Le Fevre
1931 Movie
5.3
The Sleeping Cardinal
as Sherlock Holmes
1931 Movie
Bonnie Prince Charlie
as Lord Kingsburgh
1923 Movie
5.0
Lady Windermere's Fan
as Lord Darlington
1916 Movie