William Gillette

1853 – 1937

31 works on record

Biography

William Hooker Gillette was an American actor-manager, playwright, and stage manager in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best remembered for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage and in a 1916 silent film.

Works

How To Write A Play

2007

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sherlock Holmes Theatre

2005

Jersey blue

1995

Sherlock Holmes

1980

The right to vote: politics and the passage of the fifteenth amendment

1965

Sherlock Holmes [play]

1935

The illusion of the first time in acting

1915

The three-act farcical comedy, Too much Johnson

1912

William Gillette in Sherlock Holmes

1900

An American drama arranged in four acts and entitled Secret service

1898

All the comforts of home

1897

A legal wreck

1888

Sherlock Holmes / Selecting a Ghost

Secret service

Plays

Famous Plays of Crime and Detection

Retreat from Reconstruction

1980

The painful predicament of Sherlock Holmes

1955

How well George does it!

1936

The astounding crime on Torrington road

1927

1924

1922

1918

1915

The five-act war drama, Held by the enemy

1898

The red owl

Theater program for "The Private Secretary," Academy of Music, Baltimore, February 7, 1885

A successful calamity

Too much Johnson

Esmeralda

Among thieves