Louis Hector was an American radio, theater, film, and television actor.
10 Facts About Louis Hector
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Louis Hector is best known for his roles of Sherlock Holmes in the 1937 broadcast of The Three Garridebs ; and that of the Reverend Browne in MGM's 1940 Technicolor release of Northwest Passage.
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Louis Hector started his acting career in Theatre performances in London and Broadway.
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Louis Hector acted in several plays in London, mainly Shakespearean, with actress Jane Cowl before emigrating to the US in 1920, where he appeared in several Broadway productions, including No More Ladies, and Arms and Men; and choreographed duels in Ziegfeld's 1928 musical version of Three Musketeers.
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Louis Hector worked regularly as a radio performer in the 1930s, often portraying Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's protagonist, Sherlock Holmes.
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Louis Hector was chosen to play Holmes in an early NBC experimental television broadcast of The Three Garridebs on November 27,1937.
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Louis Hector died in New York City in early to mid-October 1968, his obituary was published in the New York Times on October 19.
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Louis Hector performed on radio in the NBC Blue network radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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Louis Hector played Professor Moriarty in at least one episode, "The Missing Leonardo Da Vinci", which aired on May 19,1932.
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The episodes in which Louis Hector portrayed Holmes that were based on Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories include the following:.