Jeremy Brett

He died of heart failure in London. He is also known for his voice-over from the 1970 PBS station ident, which served the network for its first year. After taking on the role, he made few appearances out of character and is considered the Sherlock Holmes of the 1980s and 1990s, as Basil Rathbone had been before him from his 1940s films. Since the Horton family is still regarded as the core of Days of Our Lives, his memory has been allowed to remain imprinted on the show by the voiceovers remaining intact. Although he appeared in so many films and was such a familiar face on television, Brett is now best remembered for portraying Sherlock Holmes in a long series of television films (from 1984 to 1994), based on the original stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. The narration was a tradition which started with the opening sequence in 1966 and with the mid-program bumper in 1975. Brett could sing, however, as he proved when he played Danilo in The Merry Widow on television in 1968. At each intermission, his voice also says "We will return for the second half of Days of Our Lives in just a moment".

He played Freddie Eynsford-Hill in the 1964 film My Fair Lady, but his singing voice was dubbed. From 1966 to 1994, he would also intone, "This is Macdonald Carey, and these are the days of our lives." (After Carey's passing, the producers, out of respect for Carey's family, decided not to use the second part of the opening tagline). Brett's film career was never as distinguished as his stage and small-screen careers. He is most recognized today, a decade after his passing, as the voice who recites the epigram each day before the program begins: "Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives". He joked that he was rarely allowed into the 20th century and never into the present day. He played that role from 1965 until his death from lung cancer in 1994. Many of his appearances were in comedy roles, but usually with a classic edge (he appeared in several Noel Coward plays). Tom Horton on NBC's soap opera Days of Our Lives.

He played leading roles in many classic serials, notably appearing as D'Artagnan in the 1966 adaptation of The Three Musketeers. For the remainder of his career, he played patriarch Dr. From the early 1960s onwards, Brett was rarely off British television screens. He played the role of Herb Maris for the show's first season in 1959. In 1976 he married Joan Wilson, but she died in 1985, and he did not remarry. Carey also played a crusading attorney in the 1950s syndicated series Lock-Up. Danvers. He was known in many Hollywood circles as "the B-Movie king", sharing the throne with his "queen", Lucille Ball.

Years later, they would appear together in the BBC's dramatization of Rebecca (1978) -- Brett playing the hero, Max de Winter, and Massey playing the sinister Mrs. Macdonald Carey (March 15, 1913–March 21, 1994) was an American actor best known for his starring roles in various B-movies of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. In 1958, he married the actress, Anna Massey (daughter of Raymond Massey), but they were divorced in 1962. He played many classical roles on stage, including a huge amount of Shakespeare, and made his first film and television appearances in 1955. He was educated at Eton College and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Brett was born in Berkswell Grange, Warwickshire, England. Jeremy Brett (born Peter Jeremy William Huggins) (November 3, 1933 - September 12, 1995) was a British actor.