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That's them. The sheer number of actors narrowed the possibilities, and eliminating Shakespeare narrowed it further. Jeremy Brett is known primarily for playing Sherlock, and both Robert Downey Jr and Will Farrell played him recently. Ian McKellen played a retired SH in "Mr Holmes" fairly recently. At least twice as many actors as I posted have played him, but I listed the ones you may have heard of (Stewart Granger, John Barrymore....) If you missed this, I was going to add Johnny Lee Miller, Benedict Comberbatch, and Basil Rathbone. In other news, I'm skipping town for about a week, shortly, so I'll rejoin you in about a week. Talk amongst yourselves.

Now, 3 of those names should do it.

Orson Welles John Gielgud Clive Merrison Stewart Granger John Cleese Roger Moore Christopher Plummer Frank Langella Tom Baker Peter O'Toole Peter Cushing Charleton Heston Christopher Lee Patrick Mc Nee Matt Frewer Rupert Everett Jonathan Pryce Michael York Will Ferrell Milton Berle Alan Napier Boris Karloff Peter Lawford John Barrymore Michael Caine Robert Downey Jr Johnny Depp Ian McKellen Louis Oliver Moffatt Peter Capaldi Leonard Nimoy Jeremy Brett James D'Arcy Richard Roxburgh Georges Treville

Maybe I already did. Mrs Wolf looked over the current list, and got it over my shoulder. She said there was 1 actor there that she only knew for exactly one role.

After this, I can either post a bunch of names you won't recognize, or about 4 names that will make it painfully obvious.

Orson Welles John Gielgud Clive Merrison Stewart Granger John Cleese Roger Moore Christopher Plummer Frank Langella Tom Baker Peter O'Toole Peter Cushing Charleton Heston Christopher Lee Patrick Mc Nee Matt Frewer Rupert Everett Jonathan Pryce Michael York Milton Berle Alan Napier Boris Karloff Peter Lawford Peter Capaldi Louis Oliver Moffatt John Barrymore Michael Caine Johnny Depp Ian McKellen Leonard Nimoy Jeremy Brett James D'Arcy Richard Roxburgh Georges Treville

Not Shakespeare, and not Herman's Hermits. So, no Henry the Eighth.

Welcome. I'm surprised you stuck in there that long, but everyone's experience was different, so that's that. If you'd like to share what you experienced, we'd like to hear it. News from 2000- 2012 or later is especially appreciated, since there's so little news on those to reach us in the first place. Feel free to ask any questions, hopefully with a little tact.

Ok, that's shocking even for them. I forget how callous the top people can be- unless it's THEIR ox getting gored, in which case we all have to drop what we are doing....

I'm surprised at the number of re-made movies. Why is the idea of remaking "CHILD'S PLAY" a good idea? I'm still trying to figure out why it got sequels.

No. He's well-known, but not QUITE as well known. But, cheez, have a lot of actors played him! (No, I didn't hide a clue in there, I was just making an observation.)

Orson Welles John Gielgud Clive Merrison Stewart Granger John Cleese Roger Moore Christopher Plummer Frank Langella Tom Baker Peter O'Toole Peter Cushing Charleton Heston Christopher Lee Patrick Mc Nee Matt Frewer Rupert Everett Jonathan Pryce Michael York Milton Berle Alan Napier Boris Karloff Peter Lawford Peter Capaldi Louis Oliver Moffatt John Barrymore Michael Caine Johnny Depp Ian McKellen

Was that the "Charles" character from the "Infantile Amusements" series?

What you said may well be true, but most of those actors never played Dracula. They all, however, have shared a different role.

Orson Welles John Gielgud Clive Merrison Stewart Granger John Cleese Roger Moore Christopher Plummer Frank Langella Tom Baker Peter O'Toole Peter Cushing Charleton Heston Christopher Lee Patrick Mc Nee Matt Frewer

No.

A) Dinner Impossible. B) Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. C) World's Worst Cooks. D)Kitchen Boss. E) Iron Chef America. F) Chefs Vs City G) Guys Grocery Games (Triple-G). George's turn!

"Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives." But that's the CORRECT show.

No.

Ok, some cooking shows. Name any to take the round. A) Michael Symon filled in for a season when Robert Irvine was fired for padding his resume. RI returned for the next season, because he was interesting and Symon was not! B) Guy Fieri zooms around, stopping at little hole-in-the-wall eating establishments and other places, and finds out how they make some specialty for which they are known. The nickname for this show is "Triple-D". C) 2 chefs assemble teams, then try to teach them to make dishes- after which the teams compete to make the dishes competently. D) Buddy Velasco tried to do a standard cooking show. This was the result- and it's not his best-remembered work.... E) Who decided that the best choice for a host for a cooking show is an actor-martial artist? Mark DeCasco was the host for a while. F) This show ended because Chris Cosentino, one of its hosts, was too injured from various "eat the hot food" challenges to continue in his role. Aron Sanchez and he normally had traveled from place to place, trying to out-cook and out-race local chefs at some local dishes and local sites. (The locals may be used to making the dish all the time, and definitely knew all the driving shortcuts.) Both teams (of 2) were issued a car and backpack for the episode (ignore the backpack's contents and risk losing the episode for lack of some critical tool.) One season had Food Network chefs brought in to compete against Aron and Chris. G) Walmart "Flavortown" is the setting for this cooking show. Four chefs (professional or amateur) compete to make a specified type of dish within the parameters, using the workstations provided and the contents of the Walmart "Flavortown" supermarket in which this show is filmed.

Ok, name this role: Orson Welles John Gielgud Clive Merrison Stewart Granger John Cleese Roger Moore Christopher Plummer Frank Langella Tom Baker

"Pinky and the Brain"?

Had to be somebody who's been all over the place. In this case, this "dirty, rotten scoundrel" was MICHAEL CAINE, wasn't it?

Everybody had heard the news. It was the headline of all the UK newspapers the day before the Advanced class started. (The headline for the Daily Mail was "We Belong Together", with a photo of Germans from both East and West holding hands and standing on a piece of the wall. The headline for the Sun was "Red and Buried!" with a photo of some of the wall's wreckage.) I expect every attendee knew. I don't know why there were no comments whatsoever. I also thought it was strange that WS, the country coordinator from Germany, had to catch his news on the same little TV on the bottom floor "garden level" that the rest of us caught things on. In fairness, most of the TV I saw then- which wasn't much- was more at the local pub in the village ("the Black Bull") than the little TV.

What's twice as shocking to me, although of less relative importance to the posters, is that the people at Gartmore House didn't make any kind of comment, not even at dinner in-house. Why is that shocking to me? The country coordinator for Germany was there, helping to run an Advanced Class at the time. When he had free time, he was often watching the news to keep up (this was pre-internet for most of us.) I suspect, had vpw not killed himself with carcinogens before that and left office, he would have had a LOT to say on the subject.