Jeremy Brett

He was both manic depressive and bipolar?

Jeremy Brett was quite beautiful for a brief second. He seemed to have aged rapidly and looked older than his years.

R1 yes, yes he was.

R2 I agree. He was a gorgeous man. Below is him as Hamlet.

I saw him playing a drugged-out Sherlock Holmes on stage in London. There were more people on stage than in the audience. I got his autograph at the stage door - he seemed annoyed at having to do them.

He looks like a ghoul, in the violin photo! Yikes!

R3. What is the difference?

"Alimentary, my dear Watson."

I liked him as Audrey Hepburn’s older brother in the 1956 “War and Peace.”

Like Audrey, his singing voice was dubbed in My Fair Lady.

Not by Marni Nixon, however.

On The Street Where You Live

rather poor quality clip

Too bad he did not become a big star.

He was a brilliant Sherlock Holmes. The best Sherlock ever for me. Unfortunately he didn’t leave much of a legacy you can see now. Sherlock and My Fair Lady are the only things I’ve seen him in.

R12 He was Jonathan Harker in Dracula with Frank Langella, Donald Pleasance, and Lord Laurence Olivier. Both the stage and movie.

R13, he was not in that movie. The role of Jonathan Harker was played by Trevor Eve.

R14 Maybe it was the original movie.

He and Lynn Redgrave were terrific on stage on Broadway in1985 in "Aren't We All?" by Fredrick Lonsdale, who was a British writer among the lines the 1920s British Neil Simon. They were the real leads, but the notable top-billed stars, in supporting roles, were Rex Harrison and Claudette Colbert.

OP, fuck you. Jeremy Brett isn't forgotten, and you don't know enough about him to do anything but embarrass his name.

It's just too bad that his psychological health collapsed. The cover story for his death was not convincing, either.

The best Holmes in theatrical history.

I thought he died of AIDS.

British men age like MILK, I tell you.

A pity.

He did not age well

Love him as Sherlock and in My Fair Lady

Despite his great looks Jeremy Brett aged very quickly, by his mid thirties he was already looking much older than his years. Tyrone Power was the same way, by the time he died at age 44, he looked closer to 60.

A bad heart shows itself around the eyes.

R22 years of heavy smoking and drinking!

Both of the men mentioned as his partners in Wikipedia died of AIDS.

Brett was great as Sherlock Holmes on PBS

Apparently Jeremy Brett had rheumatic fever as a child that affected his heart, so that along with the bad lifestyle contributed to his accelerated aging.

Best Sherlock ever. Who was a maniac depressive too. He looked really sick in the later episodes, put on a lot of weight.

I read somewhere that the medication he used to treat his Bipolar Disorder caused him to gain weight or retain fluids, which made him tired and sluggish. I think that, and his smoking, affected his general health and appearance. Still, he was a fantastic actor and the best Sherlock Holmes we ever had.

R10: 221-B Baker Street.

Sorry, DL, but Basil Rathbone reigns supreme as Sherlock Holmes.

Nooooo, R30. Rathbone‘s Holmes is not psychotic enough to be interesting y