RIP Edward Hardwicke
"The superbly handsome Jeremy Brett, the regularity of his features made dramatic by a broken nose, the mellifluousness of his voice made arresting by a slight vocal impediment, presented a ravaged and romantic Holmes ... [whose] relationship with Edward Hardwicke's transparently decent Watson was that of a drowning man clinging to a raft," declared the actor Simon Callow.
You were a fine Watson and a fixture of my early adolescence, when my father and I would unplug the phone (remember those days, older members of the comm) and settle in every Thursday night at 9 pm for Sherlock Holmes on PBS's Mystery!
Gatiss' tweet: RIP Edward Hardwicke. "The one fixed point in a changing age"...
Full Telegraph article here.
You were a fine Watson and a fixture of my early adolescence, when my father and I would unplug the phone (remember those days, older members of the comm) and settle in every Thursday night at 9 pm for Sherlock Holmes on PBS's Mystery!
Gatiss' tweet: RIP Edward Hardwicke. "The one fixed point in a changing age"...
Full Telegraph article here.