Nigel Bruce

His last movie, World for Ransom, was released in 1954.
. Bruce died in 1953, aged 57, in Santa Monica, California. He died from cancer in London. There were 14 films made and he also played Watson on the radio. In the last years of his life he taught drama at the Actors Centre and the Academy of Live and Performing Arts, and also worked in association with RADA, generally in the role of promoting the organisation, or providing advice to acting students. But for millions of fans, Bruce was the definitive Watson. He continued working regularly on stage and appeared in a number of made for television movies and mini-series.

Holmes purists objected that Watson in the books was an intelligent and capable person, just not a super detective, and that the Bruce portrayal made him seem dimmer and more bumbling than he was. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981), and Agatha Christie's Evil Under the Sun (1982), the latter reuniting him with his The Misanthrope co-star Diana Rigg. Watson in the Sherlock Holmes series beginning in 1939 with his good friend Basil Rathbone. H. He played buffoonish, fuzzy-minded gentlemen and his signature role was that of Dr. His most widely seen screen performance was as Lancelot in the 1981 film Excalibur, and he also appeared in the film versions of D. During his career he worked on 77 movies, including Treasure Island, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Lassie Come Home, The Corn is Green, and Bwana Devil. Among his successes was The Misanthrope, which led Clay to the United States, where he also played this role on Broadway in 1975.

In 1934 he moved to Hollywood. He was cast in several of Laurence Olivier's Old Vic productions and during the decade came to be regarded as one of British theatres most promosing actors. In 1920 he began his career on stage and eight years later started working in silent films. He and also appeared in several West End theatre productions. He was severely wounded in World War I and spent most of the war in a wheelchair. Born in London, England, Clay studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and began his acting career in the early 1970s with small parts in film and television. The son of a baronet, he was born in Ensenada, Mexico, where his parents were on vacation. Nicholas Anthony Phillip Clay (September 18, 1946 - May 25 - 2000) was a British actor.

Watson in a series of films starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. William Nigel Bruce (September 4, 1895 - October 8, 1953), usually credited as Nigel Bruce, was a British character actor, best known as Dr.