Eille Norwood

A study of Eille Norwood's make-up changes for Sherlock Holmes, in his performance of 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes' in London's West End.

The final feature in the Eille Norwood Holmes series.

Dr. John Watson treats a patient who has lost a thumb. The patient says that the loss of his thumb was not an accident but the result of an attack. However, he fears that the story behind the loss of his digit is so strange that the police will not believe it.

A German spy named Von Bork has been in England since 1910. Through several agents, he has gathered a significant amount of information relating to the British armed forces and foreign policy. He is unaware that a large amount of that information is false because one of his agents is really Sherlock Holmes, who is working for the British government.

Hilton Soames, a lecturer in Greek at a university, notices that someone has gone into his study and looked at the text for an unseen translation exam that is due to take place the next day. Suspicion falls on the three students who live in the same building in which Soames lives and works, all of whom are entered for the exam.

Susan Cushing asks Holmes' help in solving the disappearance of her sister Mary Browner, but it doesn't seem Holmes' type of case until he is told of a Christmas present's grisly contents.

A gentleman is baffled when the childish drawings of little dancing men terrify his American wife. Sherlock Holmes soon discovers why.

A governess is arrested for the murder of her employer's wife.

Holmes receives a mysterious telegram from Cyril Overton, the captain of the Cambridge University rugby team. Overton later explains that one of the best players on his team, a young man named Godfrey Staunton, went missing while in London for an important game. Holmes follows a trail of clues back to Cambridge.

Colonel Barclay is found dead and his wife is arrested for the murder, but Holmes is convinced a missing door key will reveal the true killer.

A headstrong but titled suffragette slips into the power of a murderous con artist.

Holmes and Watson travel to Europe to escape Professor Moriarty's vengeance.

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

Adaptation of the Conan Doyle story The Mazarin Stone.

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

A London lady comes to Holmes in curiosity about her newest lodger. After first renting the room, arranging for meals and newspaper to be left at the door, and paying a very high fee, he disappears completely. Or, is it someone else now inside the room?

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

Holmes is consulted on a matter of grave national consequence--but with surprisingly little cooperation from the government he seeks to protect. Where is the naval treaty? Why has it not appeared on the continental crime market?

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

An earnest young solicitor comes to Holmes just before he is arrested--for murder. He insists he had only just met the victim, and knows nothing of him, though he finds himself his sole beneficiary. But then Holmes finds a new thumb print, and the game is afoot.

Holmes is called to a manor house to investigate the brutal murder of a country lord with a fireplace poker and reconcile the story of his bruised and battered wife with the facts.

Holmes is hired by the débutante Lady Eva Blackwell to retrieve compromising letters from a blackmailer:

After the death in suspicious circumstances of Charles Baskerville, the last descendant of the lineage of the Baskervilles, Henry, returned to the old family mansion. The charismatic detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful assistant, Dr. Watson, investigating the case, and discover the existence of a supernatural hound that in addition murderer according to history, killed many years ago Hugo Baskerville, the first of the line, and it seems that the curse stalks his descendants.

Holmes finds that the disappearance of respectable middle class Neville St. Clair may be linked to a filthy beggar living above an opium den.

Sherlock Holmes (Eille Norwood) is on vacation when he stumbles into a house and discovers two bodies. Both have been dead for hours but there aren't any visible signs of violence and soon other bodies start to pile up.

Sherlock Holmes (Eille Norwood) knows that a man has killed a former partner but he can't prove it unless he finds a dying detective who knows what really happened. Norwood would play Holmes in over thirty films and he's quite good in the role bring an intelligent looking character.

Holmes is approached by Miss Violet Smith with a most peculiar problem. She has recently accepted a position with Mr. Carruthers as a music teacher for his 10 year old daughter. On Saturdays, she returns to her home to he with her mother and returns to Chilton Grange Manor on Mondays. She cycles the several miles to the train station and recently she has noticed a man, also on a bicycle, following her. He is quite blatantly there, stopping when she stops and always keeping the same distance from her but making no attempt to to hide his presence. She is worried at least in part because she recently rejected the advances of a Mr. Woodley who became upset and violent at the rejection. As Holmes soon deduces, she has good reason to be fearful, though not necessarily from the cyclist.

A desperate, but highly respectable schoolmaster collapses at Holmes' door. His prize pupil, the son of a wealthy duke, has vanished, seemingly without a trace. And, why is Holmes getting such poor cooperation in his investigation?

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

A popular aristocrat has been killed, but no one can learn how. No one, that is, until the return of Sherlock Holmes.

There is a dark mystery in Hampshire, near Winchester. Why does this strange couple insist the governess cut her hair short? Why is she told funny stories? And who is in the tower?

A superior-minded British aristocrat condescends to visit Holmes for help with a spot of bother: his new wife has disappeared. What is the secret of her past? How will the solution affect the haughty "lord?"

A wealthy banker comes to Holmes desperate to recover a valuable British gem--and to deal with his son's apparent dishonor.

Holmes and Watson match wits with an opera star intent on blackmailing a king.

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

Early silent Sherlock Holmes adventure

King James' agent saves a Dutch princess and marries her as the King's proxy.