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Jeremy Brett Biography

Actor

Name at birth: Peter Jeremy William Huggins

Jeremyt Brett played the foppish Freddie Eynsford-Hill opposite Audrey Hepburn in the 1964 film version of My Fair Lady, and he had a long career on stage and screen. But Brett is best known for his portrayal of master detective Sherlock Holmes in a series of episodes for British television filmed between 1984 and 1994. His intense and acerbic Holmes was an immediate hit with audiences and remains popular in reruns.

Extra credit: By coincidence, Brett played Dr. Watson in a 1980 Los Angeles production of the play The Crucifer of Blood, with Charlton Heston as Holmes... Brett played poet Robert Browning in the 1982 TV movie The Barretts of Wimpole Street.

See also our Who2 profiles on Sherlock Holmes and author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.