On the trail of the cinematic Sherlock Holmes

Rathbone had nothing on Ellie Norwood. "He was the actor who played Sherlock Holmes the most," Horak says of Norwood. "He made something like 30 Sherlock Holmes films in the 1920s in England. He started with a serial in 1921 and then was cranking out six or seven or eight films a year."

See also: Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes Vs. Zombies! for a comic book take on the great detective.