William Gillette: William Gillette. Writer: Sherlock Holmes. Handsome American actor, playwright and stage director/producer William Gillette was born in Hartford, CT, in 1853. His father Francis was a former United States Senator and crusader for women's suffrage and the abolition of slavery; his mother Elisabeth Daggett Hooker is a descendant of Rev. Thomas Hooker, who either wrote or inspired the first written constitution in history to form a government. In 1873 William left...
Known For: Sherlock Holmes (Writer), Sherlock Holmes (Writer), Sherlock Holmes (Writer), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Writer)