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Jeremy Brett (born Peter Jeremy William Huggins; 3 November 1933 – 12 September 1995), was an English actor, probably best known for playing fictional detective Sherlock Holmes in four Granada TV series from 1984 to 1994 in all 41 episodes. His career spanned from stage, to television and film, to Shakespeare and musical theatre. He is also remembered for playing the besotted Freddie Eynsford-Hill in the Warner Bros. 1964 production of ''My Fair Lady''. ==Early life== Jeremy Brett was born Peter Jeremy William Huggins at Berkswell Grange in Berkswell, West Midlands. His birthdate is given variously as either 3 November 1933, December 1933 or many sources give 1935, although this was probably a later vanity claim to reduce his public age. He was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Henry William Huggins, an Army officer and Elizabeth Edith Cadbury (of the confectionary dynasty). He had three older brothers: John, Patrick and Michael. The actor Martin Clunes is his nephew. Educated at Eton College, he claimed to have been an "academic disaster", attributing his learning difficulties to dyslexia. Although he eventually developed precisely honed diction, he was born with "rhotacism", a speech impediment which prevented him from pronouncing the "R" sound correctly. He underwent corrective surgery as a teenager and followed it with years of practising. Much later he claimed that he practised all of his speech exercises daily, whether he was working or not. However, while at Eton he excelled at singing and was a member of the college choir. He trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama〔Sergio Angelini ("Brett, Jeremy (1933–1995)" ), BFI Screenonline; ''Who's Who in the Theatre'', 17th ed. Gale Research, 1981〕 in London, graduating in 1954, but his father had demanded that he change his name for the sake of family honour, so he took his stage name from the label of his first suit, "Brett & Co."〔Sheridan Morley "The curse of being Conan", ''The Sunday Times'', 27 April 1997, p.5〕 In 1959, while Brett was playing Hamlet, his mother was killed in a car crash in the Welsh mountains. This had a tremendous effect on Brett. Later in life, he spoke about the accident, its impact on him and consequently his performance; "my mother had been killed savagely in a car accident in 1959, and I was very angry about that, because my son, when she was killed, was only three months old. There was anger – it was interesting... there was anger in me. And I think that came through. I felt cheated – I felt my mother had been cheated – the rage of that came through". He couldn't believe the circumstances and went on to say "I was very rough on my mother (), I think. I mean physically rough, in the play" as he channelled his anger into his performance. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeremy Brett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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