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Holmes and Watson are played by Bruno Güttner and Fritz Odemar respectively


Bruno Güttner surely has to count as the most obscure actor ever to have tackled the role of Sherlock Holmes in a major release!

The son of celebrated sculptor Vittorio Güttner, his career in movies commenced with two blink-and-you'll-miss-them bit parts in the Bavaria-Film productions HENKER, FRAUEN UND SOLDATEN (Hangmen, Women and Soldiers, 1935) and DU BIST MEIN GLÜCK (Thou Art My Joy, 1936).

And then he played Holmes in DER HUND VON BASKERVILLE (1936/37; it was released in January 1937). By all accounts, his vocal performance was abominable... and so he was dubbed by Siegfried Schürenberg, whose familiar voice is the one we hear on the soundtrack to this movie.

Soon after the film's release, Güttner's father died suddenly, and Bruno set about completing his father's unfinished works. He never made another film.