We continue to collect images of Sherlock Holmes in movies! Billy Wilder - The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) - Robert Stephens as Holmes This is DeLuxe Color film in Panavision written and produced by and I. A. L. Diamond, and directed by Wilder. The film offers an affectionate, slightly parodic look at Sherlock Holmes, and draws a distinction between the "real" Holmes and the character portrayed by Watson in his stories for The Strand magazine. It stars Robert Stephens as Holmes and Co