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** And while it was television rather than movies, give Edward Hardwicke and David Burke some love too.
** Sherlock Holmes inspired a long line of similar imitators. It was to the point that Holmes trademark hat, pipe and browncoat became visual shorthand for "detective" and Holmes himself is shown dressed this way in cameos and other popular depictions far more than he actually wore them in the original stories. Also, many adaptations forgot the quirkier aspects of his personality and focused on his famous detective skills.
*** Indeed, he never explicitly wore a deerstalker in the original stories at all. The iconic physical depiction of Holmes comes from Sidney Paget's [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101140225/http://www.arthes.com/holmes/ illustrations] in the stories' first appearances in ''Strand'' magazine.
*** In the books he did smoke a pipe (always the illustrations never depicted the famous calabash pipe which first became associated with Holmes due to a theatrical adaptation) but he smoked cigarettes and cigars almost as often.
*** Mycroft and Moriarty were not major character in the books and only appear in a story each and referenced in a few others but are major figures in many adaptations.
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