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How Sherlock Holmes actor Basil Rathbone grew to hate detective who defined his career

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With his long slender features visible under a deerstalker hat and a smoking pipe in hand, actor Basil Rathbone is as synonymous with Sherlock Holmes as Baker street.

One of Britain’s first stars of Hollywood’s golden age, Rathbone was so compelling as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s cerebral sleuth that his image has become inseparable from the Sherlock industry which is worth millions to this day.

But despite becoming the defining face of a literary legend, earning him fame and fortune the world over, a new book reveals that Rathbone regarded Sherlock Holmes as a curse which ruined his credibility as an actor.

Having played the detective in 14 movies and more than 200 radio plays between 1939 and 1946, Rathbone became so typecast that his screen

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