Re: Why was David Burke replaced with Edward Hardwicke?
After completing The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes David Burke was apparently offered a season with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and chose to accept the offer rather than continuing as Watson in The...
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Lately, however, Burke has confessed to David Stuart Davies that he probably would not have accepted the offer from the RSC, had not Jeremy Brett, in one of his darker moods, said that he would not...
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An added inducement for Burke was that he and wife Anna Calder-Marshall had a young son, and the RSC offer meant he was no longer away from his family filming Holmes in Manchester.I always felt sorry...
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Thank you, all! Your answers are more than sufficient, and I am most grateful for them. This forum does really live up to its reputation.
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If you desire to see David Burke as Watson one more time, he takes the role in the Biography Channel's piece on Holmes, being interviewed over dinner by Anthony Howlett, who sadly passed away recently.
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The Biography episode on Holmes is nicely done ( except for the strange inclusion of a spoof picture of Errol Flynn in a deerstalker among the gallery of Holmesian portrayers). Burke is clearly having...
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My sentiments precisely, Philip. Good to see you back on the Street!
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Oh yes! There is something so delightful about Burke's wide-eyed innocent look, which seemed to combine both admiration and astonishment in equal measure, at Holmes' abilities. Seeing it again in the...
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This is the view I've also taken of his Watson and the reasons I've always took for him leaving until recently I heard a rumour -from a reasonable source, that DB didn't get on with JB as well as we...
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