Jeremy Brett--my own personal favorite actor to portray Sherlock Holmes.

Jeremy Brett (1933-1995) was a versatile British actor with a distinguished 40-year career legacy in such diverse rôles as Bassanio, Dorian Gray, Dracula, Freddie Eynsford-Hill, Hamlet, Maxim de Winter, William Tatham, and Robert Browning. Yet it was his talented and enriching portraiture as the consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, in which internationally famed him.