Musings of The Classic Sherlock Holmes Actor

Project Overview

I make a little audio web series entitled "Musings of The Classic Sherlock Holmes Actor" which goes on both the website No Place Like Holmes (www.nplh.co.uk) and YouTube. In them I narrate the written musings of classic Sherlock Holmes actors including Jeremy Brett,  Basil Rathbone, and Douglas Wilmer. We cover such ground as what they thought of their films/shows, Sherlock Holmes, acting, and much much more. All readings are sourced from written interviews or autobiographical entries. I am going to be enhancing some of the new entries coming up by adding some other actors to read quotes of other actors mentioned in passage. They are typically no more than a line or two for the most part.

Actors will have their links/sites plugged in the video and on the NPLH website as well as getting a glowing recommendation on CCC from myself.

What you submit in your audition would potentially be the final piece used if done well enough - so please give it your all! Please include what you want to be credited as if chosen with your entry.

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  • New Roles Added

    Two new male roles have been added (Sir Alec Guinness and Charlton heston)
Project Roles: Sir Laurence Olivier Marilyn Monroe Dame Sybill Thorndike Barker Howard Marion Crawford Charlton Heston Sir Alec Guinness Sir Donald Wolfit Daniel Massey War Office Recruiter Nigel Bruce Judge Sy Weintraub Edward Hardwicke Duncan Greta Garbo BBC Produder Ouida Rathbone
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Voice Actor
Sir Laurence Olivier
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Unpaid
Role assigned to: ChrisHeimVA VendettaDylan_ James Hare

The great thespian. RP English.       Voice ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWDCCf1CYXI

  • "At least you might go and apologise to Dame Sybill" (FURIOUS)

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Voice Actor
Marilyn Monroe
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Unpaid
Role assigned to: Thea Solone

American.
Voice ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIh6HDeXKGY

  • "I got THE CURSE! Don't You Have That Over Here?" (Irritated)


  • "APALAGIZE??????????????????????"   (Furious that you have been asked to apologise for turning up 6 hours late)

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Voice Actor
Dame Sybill Thorndike
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

British, Mature.  This comment was said to Marilyn Monroe after she turned up 6 hours late for filming.       Voice ref:       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVX3PLBfAM4  

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    **  "That's perfectly all right my dear. I am sure that you had a very good reason. We're all the more pleased to see you now that you have come."**  (Non-plussed) 


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Voice Actor
Barker
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

Mr. Barker, a Wine Waiter at a posh members only London club 

  • Sir Donald is in the bar, sir! Shall I tell him you are here?" 

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Voice Actor
Howard Marion Crawford
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Unpaid
cast offsite

Voice Ref: ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bugajTeaYBQ 

  • I had never thought of Watson as the perennial brainless bungler who provided burlesque relief in the earlier portrayals. He is a normal man, solid on his feet, a medical student who gives valuable advice.... In other words, he is a perfect foil to Holmes' youthful buoyancy.

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Voice Actor
Charlton Heston
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Unpaid
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Voice Ref

  • It's important for them to see your face at this point. Tony's not cross-cutting close ups. They should know what I look like by now. This shot should favour you.

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Voice Actor
Sir Alec Guinness
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: Lance Bulmer Voice Overs

Voice Ref

  • "P.S.......Where's the waterfall?"   (curious)

  • "Appaling behaviour"     (regretful)

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Voice Actor
Sir Donald Wolfit
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

Voice Ref:
"King Lear" Shakespeare; audio/abridged; w/ Sir Donald Wolfit - YouTube

  • "Perhaps you have forgotten, John, that Dame Flora and I are two titled people of the theatre!"   (POMPOUS)  



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Voice Actor
Daniel Massey
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: SirSunMan

London Accent. Voice ref:
(84) Actor Daniel Massey and Playwright David Henry Hwang on Theater Talk (11-20-96) - YouTube

  • You Know, Doug, You really wouldn’t like it now. It’s not a gent’s life any more.   (reflective)

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Voice Actor
War Office Recruiter
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Unpaid
Role assigned to: BManTheGoofBall

A war office army recruiter, responding in a letter to Basil Rathbone offering his services for World War 2.

British accent. Quite posh/well educated.

  • DEAR SIR...

  • YOUR'S OBEDIENTLY....

  • YOU ARE TOO OLD.

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  • "I will not pay good money to watch buggers jump!"  (Indignant at being asked to the ballet)

  • **Incoherent annoyed mumblings and mutterings******

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Judge
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Unpaid
Role assigned to: Lance Bulmer Voice Overs

An english judge.

  • "My man, she would not have reached to your knees. You are guilty and will be fined 10 shillings!"  (Amused)

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Voice Actor
Sy Weintraub
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

Slick American producer. Arguing with Ian Richardson over how to portray Sherlock Holmes.

  • This IS the image of Sherlock Holmes

  • "He WILL smoke a meerschaum!!!"

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Voice Actor
Edward Hardwicke
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Unpaid
cast offsite

British. London accent. Male. Voice Ref:   Elementary My Dear Watson: An Interview with Edward Hardwicke (Part 1/2) - YouTube

  • "He used to suffer bouts of manic depression that began to effect hs performance. Jeremy used to quote a line from Twelfth Night and, as the run went on, it got longer and longer and finally he was doing the whole opening speech. Duncan Weldon, one of the producers, came in one night and said......."

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Voice Actor
Duncan
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cast offsite

British. any accent. Male.

A british TV producer.


  • "....what the HELL was that?"

    (sheer bewilderment)


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Voice Actor
Greta Garbo
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Unpaid
Role assigned to: Thea Solone

 This is said in response to a request from her fellow actor, Basil Rathbone. Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American actress. She was known for her melancholic, somber persona due to her many film portrayals of tragic characters and for her subtle and understated performances. Does not need to be a pitch perfect match, just looking for something in the same ballpark as her.

  • "...I never give pictures"                                              (Flat, cold, robotic, dismissive, uninterested)

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BBC Produder
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Unpaid
cast offsite

A producer on the phone to Douglas Wilmer.  Wilmer expresses concern about the lack of quality of a script, followed by saying that he would not turn up. 

  • "...yes, we had been a little worried about that one..." (Sheepish)

  • "But!!! We start rehearasing next week!!!" (panicked)

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Ouida Rathbone
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Unpaid

Born 1886, she was Diminutive red-headed actress, playwright and screenwriter. Her marriage to Basil Rathbone was one of the most enduring in show business, lasting from 1926 until his death in 1967. 2 lines. US accent. Set in 1940s. To be spoken as an admonishment, but loving all the same.

  • "Darling, please don't" 

  • "I want to read it myself. You are spoiling it for me."

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