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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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Sea Devils
1953 · as Baron de Baudrec

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943 · as Embassy Counsellor

Blanche Fury
1948 · as Lord Rudford

The Elusive Pimpernel
1950 · as Lord Grenville

Storm in a Teacup
1937 · as Fiscal

Old Iron
1938 · as Judge

The Missing Rembrandt
1932 · as Sherlock Holmes

Kate Plus Ten
1938 · as Colonel Westhanger

Genevieve
1953 · as Old Gentleman

Silver Blaze
1937 · as Sherlock Holmes

The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes
1935 · as Sherlock Holmes

The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case
1932 · as Sherlock Holmes

The Sleeping Cardinal
1931 · as Sherlock Holmes

The Terror
1938 · as Colonel Redmayne

Brandy for the Parson
1952 · as Major Glockleigh

Thunder in the City
1937 · as Sir Peter

The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes
1985 · as Sherlock Holmes (archive footage)

The Diamond Man
1924 · as Lady Marshalt