George Brent

George Brent has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for his contributions to Motion Pictures at 1707 Vine St, and for his contributions to Television at 1614 Vine St. His last movie, World for Ransom, was released in 1954. He died shortly after in Solana Beach, California, from emphysema. Bruce died in 1953, aged 57, in Santa Monica, California. She expressed great remorse at his ill health, and sadness that such a virile and attractive man could have deteriorated so dramatically. There were 14 films made and he also played Watson on the radio. Davis recounted in her final years, what would be her last meeting with Brent after many years of estrangement. But for millions of fans, Bruce was the definitive Watson.

He was married six times including three marriages to actresses - Ruth Chatterton (1932-1934), Constance Worth (1937) and Ann Sheridan (1942-1943). 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. Brent was known as a womaniser in Hollywood, and had a lengthy relationship with his co-star Bette Davis. Watson in the Sherlock Holmes series beginning in 1939 with his good friend Basil Rathbone. He retired from acting in 1956 but made a return in 1978 in the made-for-television production Born Again. He played buffoonish, fuzzy-minded gentlemen and his signature role was that of Dr. When not playing against a popular female lead, Brent's few starring roles failed to achieve success, and he drifted into "B" pictures from the late 1940s. During his career he worked on 77 movies, including Treasure Island, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Lassie Come Home, The Corn is Green, and Bwana Devil.

Ames (1936), Jean Arthur in More Than a Secretary (1936), Myrna Loy in The Rains Came (1939), Merle Oberon in 'Til We Meet Again (1940), Ann Sheridan in Honeymoon For Three (1941), Joan Fontaine in The Affairs of Susan (1945), Barbara Stanwyck in My Reputation (1946), Claudette Colbert in Tomorrow is Forever (1946), Dorothy McGuire in The Spiral Staircase (1946), Lucille Ball in Lover Come Back (1946) and Yvonne De Carlo in Slave Girl (1947). In 1934 he moved to Hollywood. He also played opposite Greta Garbo in The Painted Veil (1934), Madeleine Carroll in The Case Against Mrs. In 1920 he began his career on stage and eight years later started working in silent films. Highly regarded by Davis, he became her most frequent male co-star, appearing with her in twelve films, including Jezebel (1938), The Old Maid (1939), Dark Victory (1939) and The Great Lie (1941). He was severely wounded in World War I and spent most of the war in a wheelchair. As a leading man for many of the studios leading stars, most notably Bette Davis, Brent was usually overshadowed by them, however this was a deliberate choice of the studio who wanted to ensure that the actress was shown as the key player. The son of a baronet, he was born in Ensenada, Mexico, where his parents were on vacation.