Who is Jeremy Brett and why has he sometimes been discussed on the list?
Besides Basil Rathbone, the late Jeremy Brett is the best-known actor to have portrayed Sherlock Holmes. Many Sherlockians consider Brett to be the best Holmes ever to appear on camera. It was through watching Brett in the Granada TV serials that Laurie King first became interested in the idea of writing about a female detective of equal intelligence and knowledge to Holmes — a character who became Mary Russell.
