Quote Originally Posted by seismic-2 View Post
The 6' 1" Robert Stephens starred in Billy Wilder's 1970 film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.



Christopher Lee played a condescending Mycroft splendidly.

Which brings me to another one of my pet peeves: no one ever casts Mycroft correctly. He is supposed to be obese.

Charles Grey was good in the role in the Jeremy Brett series (and his Mycroft even stood in for Watson and Holmes in episodes where Hardwicke and Brett were not available). Stephen Fry in the second RDJ film actually looks like the Paget illustration of Mycroft, although he seems more overweight than obese. Robert Morley in A Study in Terror had the bulk, but IMO did not feel like Mycroft.

While there have been many excellent actors play Mycroft (Christopher Lee, Richard E. Grant, Hugh Laurie, Mark Gatiss, etc.) most of them are just physically wrong.