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The play was hugely successful. It debuted in 1899 and ran for over thirty years on both sides of the Atlantic with Gillette regularly performing the role on and off for decades. His final stage performance as Holmes was in 1932 at the age of ''79'', his final performance as Holmes in any medium was in 1935 at the age of '''''82''''' for a now lost radio dramatization. Gillette's numerous performances on stage, film, ''and'' radio [[note]] Two broadcasts: one an adaptation of "The Speckled Band" the other a dramatization of his own melodrama, both have been lost to time. [[/note]] ''made'' him the Holmes of his generation long before Creator/BasilRathbone. As Creator/OrsonWelles once said: "It is too little to say that William Gillette resembled Sherlock Holmes; Sherlock Holmes looks exactly like William Gillette". Illustrator Frederic Dorr Steele used Gillette as his model for Holmes for the accompanying illustrations in the American publications of Conan Doyle's stories. A young Creator/CharlieChaplin, then a teenager trying to escape the poverty of the London slums, played Billy regularly for 2 1/2 years, including in one production opposite Gillette.
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The play was hugely successful. It debuted in 1899 and ran for over thirty years on both sides of the Atlantic with Gillette regularly performing the role on and off for decades. His final stage performance as Holmes was in 1932 at the age of ''79'', his final performance as Holmes in any medium was in 1935 at the age of '''''82''''' for a now lost radio dramatization. Gillette's numerous performances on stage, film, ''and'' radio [[note]] Two broadcasts: one an adaptation of "The Speckled Band" the other a dramatization of his own melodrama, both have been lost to time. [[/note]] ''made'' him the Holmes of his generation long before Creator/BasilRathbone. As Creator/OrsonWelles once said: "It is too little to say that William Gillette resembled Sherlock Holmes; Sherlock Holmes looks exactly like William Gillette". Illustrator Frederic Dorr Steele used Gillette as his model for Holmes for the accompanying illustrations in the American publications of Conan Doyle's stories. A young Creator/CharlieChaplin, then a teenager trying to escape the poverty of the London slums, played Billy regularly for 2 1/2 2½ years, including in one production opposite Gillette.
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* In 2006, Blackstone Audio as part of their Hollywood Theatre of the Ear line did a production featuring Martin Jarvis as Holmes and the late Creator/TonyJay as Professor Moriarty as part of "The Sherlock Holmes Theatre" boxset.
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* In 2006, Blackstone Audio as part of their Hollywood Theatre of the Ear line did a production featuring Martin Jarvis Creator/MartinJarvis as Holmes and the late Creator/TonyJay as Professor Moriarty as part of "The Sherlock Holmes Theatre" boxset.
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** Gillette gives Professor Moriarty, the first name of Robert. Conan Doyle wouldn't give Moriarty the name James until 1915 in his final Holme novel, ''Literature/TheValleyOfFear''.
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** Gillette gives Professor Moriarty, the first name of Robert. Conan Doyle wouldn't give Moriarty the name James until 1915 in his final Holme Holmes novel, ''Literature/TheValleyOfFear''.
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Played completely straight. After getting a look at Moriarty's elaborate gas chamber trap, Louis Wolheim's {{Mook|s}} asks "Why all the fuss, gov'ner, why not knock 'im on the 'ead?".
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: StatingTheSimpleSolution: Played completely straight. After getting a look at Moriarty's elaborate gas chamber trap, Louis Wolheim's {{Mook|s}} asks "Why all the fuss, gov'ner, why not knock 'im on the 'ead?".
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* ProofDare: After Holmes triumphantly declares to Larrabee that he can now have him arrested for robbery once he makes his escape, Larrabee scoffs: "My arrest! Ha, ha! Robbery eh— Why even if you got away from here, you haven't got a witness! Not a witness to your name." Holmes answers: "I'm not so sure of that, Mr. Larrabee! Do you usually fasten that door with a knife?" He points to the cupboard door, from behind which a very faint feminine moan is soon heard. Holmes then moves quickly to remove the knife, open the door and liberate the Bound and Gagged Alice Faulkner.
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* It was made again in 1922 with Creator/JohnBarrymore in the title role. The 1922 version is probably most notable for its remarkable cast. Roland Young, who made his film debut as [[TheWatson Watson]], would have a very successful career as a character actor in films like ''Film/{{Topper}}'' and ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory''. Creator/WilliamPowell, who became a huge star in TheGreatDepression, also made his film debut here as Forman the butler. Hedda Hopper, who would later leave acting to become a very famous newspaper gossip columnist, plays one of Moriarty's employees. Louis Wolheim, who became a pretty big star later in the silent era, plays a {{Mook|s}}. And Carol Dempster, who spent most of TheTwenties as the girlfriend, protege, and leading lady of Creator/DWGriffith, appears in the film as the {{Love Interest|s}}, in one of only two films she ever made that weren't directed by Griffith.
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* It was made again in 1922 with Creator/JohnBarrymore in the title role. The 1922 version is probably most notable for its remarkable cast. Roland Young, who made his film debut as [[TheWatson Watson]], would have a very successful career as a character actor in films like ''Film/{{Topper}}'' and ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory''. Creator/WilliamPowell, who became a huge star in TheGreatDepression, also made his film debut here as Forman the butler. Hedda Hopper, who would later leave acting to become a very famous newspaper gossip columnist, plays one of Moriarty's employees. Louis Wolheim, who became a pretty big star later in the silent era, plays a {{Mook|s}}. And Carol Dempster, who spent most of TheTwenties TheRoaringTwenties as the girlfriend, protege, and leading lady of Creator/DWGriffith, appears in the film as the {{Love Interest|s}}, in one of only two films she ever made that weren't directed by Griffith.
