Jeremy Brett

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Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

United Kingdom

Active from

1933

Active to

1995

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2,976

Jeremy Brett (3 November 1933 – 12 September 1995), born Peter Jeremy William Huggins, was an English actor famous, among other things, for his portrayal of the detective Sherlock Holmes in four British television series: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Although Brett's feature film appearances were relatively few, he did play Freddie Eynsford-Hill in the 1964 blockbuster film version of My Fa

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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   · 2020 · cited 34,528x

3. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 30,722x

4. GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers

   · 2015 · cited 24,191x

5. Array programming with NumPy

   · 2020 · cited 22,016x

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Quotes

• “Holmes is the hardest part I have ever played - harder than Hamlet or Macbeth. Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable and gregarious. It has all got too dangerous.”
• “Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight.”

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Key facts

Born

Peter Jeremy William Huggins , ( 1933-11-03 ) 3 November 1933 , Berkswell , Warwickshire, England

Died

12 September 1995 (1995-09-12) (aged 61), Clapham , London, England

Education

Eton College

Alma mater

Central School of Speech and Drama

Occupation

Actor

Years active

1954–1995

Spouses

Anna Massey ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1958 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1962 ) ​ Joan Wilson ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1976 ; died 1985 ) ​

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Wikidata facts

Number of children

1

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