Who is the most convincing Sherlock Holmes actor?

Basil Rathbone
Initially set in the Victorian era and later set during contemporary times, sometimes with World War II-related plots, the series of films was hugely popular and Rathbone remains the definitive Holmes actor to many.
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Who was the best actor to portray Sherlock Holmes?

Best Actors Who Played Sherlock Holmes, Ranked
  1. 1 Jeremy Brett in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984)
  2. 2 Benedict Cumberbatch in BBC's Sherlock (2010-2017) ...
  3. 3 Peter Cushing in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) & Others. ...
  4. 4 Robert Downey Jr. ...
  5. 5 Basil Rathbone in The Hound of Baskervilles (1939) & Others. ...
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Which Sherlock Holmes is the most accurate?

The Holmes of 80's British television, Brett tops this list due to the sheer accuracy with which he portrays Arthur Conan Doyle's detective. No other Holmes on this list sticks so closely to the books as he does, and it's a pleasure to see him act out the original stories as they were written.
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Who is the most popular Sherlock Holmes?

Basil Rathbone

Arguably the actor most commonly identified with Sherlock Holmes on film, Sir Basil Rathbone made 14 Sherlock Holmes movies between 1939 and 1946, creating the deerstalker and cape look in the process.
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Who has outsmarted Sherlock Holmes?

Irene Adler: Opera Prima Donna, Adventuress, Actress. To Sherlock Holmes, she is always simply “The Woman.” Meet the only woman who outsmarted the world's greatest detective, and discover why she had such a profound impact on his life and career.
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Who is smarter Holmes or Moriarty?

Abilities. Genius-Level Intellect: Moriarty has an incredible intellect. He is one of the most intelligent individuals on the planet, rivaled only by Sherlock, Mycroft, Charles Augustus Magnussen, and Eurus Holmes.
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Who is the best Sherlock villain?

Jim Moriarty is Sherlock's most well-known villain.
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How high is the IQ of Sherlock Holmes?

Radford estimates Holmes' IQ at 190, which places him much, much higher than our crazy-haired scientist. Since then, there have been many more studies on this fictional character leading people to lower his intelligence rating, but he still remains one of the smartest characters ever written.
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Who was the only woman to impress Sherlock Holmes?

Irene Adler, an American opera singer, is the only woman to impress Sherlock Holmes. She appears in the short story "A Scandal in Bohemia." Adler was originally from New Jersey, but traveled to Italy to take up her craft in opera.
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Who is the biggest villain in Sherlock Holmes?

Professor Moriarty, original name in full James Moriarty, archcriminal nemesis of Sherlock Holmes in several detective stories and novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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What mental disorder does Sherlock Holmes have?

Holmes is unique compared to an average human, but he is not a “high- functioning sociopath.” Holmes most likely suffers from Asperger's Syndrome, a minor case of Bipolar Disorder, and a hint of Savant Syndrome. Asperger's Syndrome causes Holmes to think in pictures and desire a close companionship with Dr. Watson.
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Who is Sherlock Holmes most trusted friend?

Watson, fictional English physician who is Sherlock Holmes's devoted friend and associate in a series of detective stories and novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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What was Sherlock Holmes famous line?

Sherlock Holmes is one of the most well-known literary characters, and while “Elementary, my dear Watson” is his most famous piece of dialogue, this specific phrase was not written by Arthur Conan Doyle, nor is it featured in any of the books.
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Which Sherlock was better Rdj or Benedict?

Now, if you are asking who is the better Sherlock Holmes, Robert Downey Jr. or Benedict Cumberbatch, the answer is most certainly Benedict Cumberbatch. Downey's rendition suffers partly because it feels like more Downey playing Downey and partly because he is doing his rendition in two truly awful films.
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Who is the most influential actor of all time?

Marlon Brando

Among the most influential screen actors of all-time, Brando hit Hollywood like a hammer in the early 1950s – fundamentally changing the definition of “good” acting, and with it films themselves. Brando's deeply-felt naturalism was magnetic, and his power undeniable.
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Who was the real life inspiration for Sherlock Holmes?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective with the knack for solving crimes through observation and reason was modeled after Dr. Joseph Bell, one of Conan Doyle's medical school professors.
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Did Sherlock Holmes ever fall in love?

Yes, yes he did. Even if we leave multiple interviews of the creators and Cumberbatch himself confirming that Sherlock did in fact fall in love with Irene out of consideration, the film itself already made it pretty clear that he was into her as much as she was into him.
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Who did Sherlock Holmes kiss?

One of the episode's many scenarios laying out how Sherlock might have survived the Reichenbach fall alleged that Sherlock and Moriarty were in cahoots, a deal sealed with a near-kiss.
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Did Sherlock and Watson love each other?

Holmes and Watson are, as they describe themselves matter-of-factly, "two people who love each other." In the series finale, their friend Gregson openly calls Watson "the one person in the world who you [Sherlock] truly love," and he's not wrong.
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Who has the IQ of 400?

Marilyn vos Savant (/ˌvɒs səˈvɑːnt/; born Marilyn Mach; August 11, 1946) is an American magazine columnist who has the highest recorded intelligence quotient (IQ) in the Guinness Book of Records, a competitive category the publication has since retired.
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Who has an IQ of 200?

Nadia Camukova, who has an IQ of 200, was born in Moscow in 1976. The Brain Research Institute in Moscow reported later on that she had the highest IQ in the world.
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Who has an IQ of 195?

Christopher Michael Langan (born March 25, 1952) is an American horse rancher and autodidact who has been reported to score very highly on IQ tests.
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Who was the best Moriarty?

He served as the basis for Macavity the Mystery Cat in Cats, and he's been portrayed by actors ranging from Laurence Olivier to Natalie Dormer. The very best Moriarty performance, however, was Jared Harris' in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
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Who is the best villain in all of fiction?

The Best Movie Villains Of All Time
  • Nurse Ratched.
  • The Sheriff of Nottingham. ...
  • Palpatine. ...
  • Norman Bates. Psycho (1960) ...
  • Agent Smith. The Matrix Trilogy (1999-2003) ...
  • Freddy Krueger. The Nightmare On Elm Street series (1984-2010) ...
  • T-1000. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) ...
  • Michael Myers. Halloween series (1978-2018) ...
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Who kills Moriarty?

Despite only appearing in two stories, Moriarty has been proven to be the most dangerous of all criminals that Holmes has ever encountered. In the short story "The Adventure of the Final Problem", during a fight with Holmes above the Reichenbach Falls, Moriarty fell to his death.
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