Nearly 100-years-old, a silent film Sherlock Holmes starring William Gillette has been discovered at the Cinémathèque Française.

It turned out to be the lost “Sherlock Holmes” from 1916. “It was fantastic,” says Celine Ruivo, director of the Cinémathèque film collection. “We knew the importance of what we had.

Famous literary sleuth Sherlock Holmes was played by Eille Norwood in the films that are being restored Bryony Dixon, BFI's silent film curator, said: "There’s been a demand for these for years.

Produced in 1921-23 by British film company Stoll Pictures, the 45 episodes of “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” and two feature films that are being restored all feature screen star of the ...

Upward of 70 actors have portrayed him in more than 200 films, since the early days of silent movies. But there’s not been a major cinematic adaptation of Sherlock Holmes in decades.

The film, titled just Sherlock Holmes (poster below), stars William Gillette as the detective, based on Gillette's 1899 stage play, which is inspired by a selection of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories ...

You can read more details about the mission here. Guy Ritchie directed the first two Sherlock Holmes films, hitting theaters in 2009 and 2011, each grossing over $500 million at the box office.

British actor Basil Rathbone was one of the most prolific Holmes actors, portraying him in films, on TV and on the radio starting in the 1930s; British actor Jeremy Brett played the detective on ...

Sherlock Holmes fans are being promised a most authentic depiction of the fictional detective, with the restoration of a century-old silent film series chronicling the London sleuth’s adventures.

Here is the story of how a 1916 silent film made in Chicago starring William Gillette, the most renowned Sherlock Holmes interpreter of his day, came to be lost for nearly a century. And then, mira… ...

A series of Sherlock Holmes films, first released more than a century ago, has been restored - and will soon be shown on screen for the first time since 1922. Forty-five films featuring the famous ...

A series of Sherlock Holmes films, first released more than a century ago, has been restored - and will soon be shown on screen for the first time since 1942. Forty-five films featuring the famous ...