Poll: Best portrayal of Sherlock Holmes

Results of 6,505 votes:

1. 1.
   

   Benedict Cumberbatch

    

   So far three seasons of "Sherlock"
2. 2.
   

   Robert Downey Jr.

    

   So far two movies; Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
3. 3.
   

   Jeremy Brett

    

   Four series and seven seasons: "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes" and "The Memoirs of Sherlock …
4. 4.
   

   Basil Rathbone

    

   14 classic movies starting with The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
5. 5.
   

   Jonny Lee Miller

    

   So far two seasons of "Elementary"
6. 6.
   

   Peter Cushing

    

   Two movies; The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) and The Masks of Death (1984), and a BBC TV-series (1964)
7. 7.
   

   Christopher Lee

    

   One movie; Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace, and two TV mini-series; "Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady" and "Incident at Victoria Falls"
8. 8.
   

   Christopher Plummer

    

   Murder by Decree
9. 9.
   

   Nicol Williamson

    

   The Oscar-nominated The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
10. 10.
    

    Robert Stephens

     

    Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes