Reblogged from my newspaper collection blog (mhill46-holdthefrontpage.blogspot.co.uk)
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Benedict Cumberbatch was not the first to portrayed Sherlock Holmes as a contemporary sleuth. The Basil Rathbone series of Holmes movies (Dressed to Kill, Terror by Night, Pursuit to Algiers, The Woman in Green etc) were set in the 1940's when they were made.
Born in South Africa but brought up in England, Philip St. John Basil Rathbone died on 21st July 1967 at the age of 75 and is remembered not only for Holmes but as a character actor in several horror films and the dastardly villain in Errol Flynn's version of Robin Hood.
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