
Directing
George Ridgwell
Born — Died
1867-10-29 — 1935-04-03
Place of birth
Woolwich, London, England, UK
Known for
Directing
Credits
42 titles
Known for
8.0Eille Norwood stars as the Great Detective in three episodes from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia, wherein Holmes falls for ‘the woman’; The Golden Pince-Nez, which features Holmes’ deductive powers at work; and The Final Problem, featuring the sinister Professor Moriarty. The episodes are accompanied by newly commissioned scores by Joanna MacGregor, Neil Brand and Joseph Havlat.
Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases
2025
7.5An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
The Golden Pince-Nez
1922
10.0Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
The Crimson Circle
1922
No synopsis available yet.
A Gamble in Lives
1920
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
The Stockbroker's Clerk
1922
Adaptation of the Conan Doyle story The Mazarin Stone.
The Stone of Mazarin
1923
Film credits
1920s · 1 titles
Behind the camera
8.0Eille Norwood stars as the Great Detective in three episodes from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia, wherein Holmes falls for ‘the woman’; The Golden Pince-Nez, which features Holmes’ deductive powers at work; and The Final Problem, featuring the sinister Professor Moriarty. The episodes are accompanied by newly commissioned scores by Joanna MacGregor, Neil Brand and Joseph Havlat.
Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases
2025
7.5An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
The Golden Pince-Nez
1922
10.0Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
The Crimson Circle
1922
No synopsis available yet.
A Gamble in Lives
1920
No synopsis available yet.
A Gamble in Lives
1920
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
The Stockbroker's Clerk
1922
Adaptation of the Conan Doyle story The Mazarin Stone.
The Stone of Mazarin
1923
Holmes receives a mysterious telegram from Cyril Overton, the captain of the Cambridge University rugby team. Overton later explains that one of the best players on his team, a young man named Godfrey Staunton, went missing while in London for an important game. Holmes follows a trail of clues back to Cambridge.
The Missing Three Quarter
1923
A governess is arrested for the murder of her employer's wife.
The Mystery of Thor Bridge
1923
8.0A London lady comes to Holmes in curiosity about her newest lodger. After first renting the room, arranging for meals and newspaper to be left at the door, and paying a very high fee, he disappears completely. Or, is it someone else now inside the room?
The Red Circle
1922
A headstrong but titled suffragette slips into the power of a murderous con artist.
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
1923
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
The Bruce Partington Plans
1922
A gentleman is baffled when the childish drawings of little dancing men terrify his American wife. Sherlock Holmes soon discovers why.
The Mystery of the Dancing Men
1923
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
1922
10.0An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
The Second Stain
1922
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
The Blue Carbuncle
1923
A poor aristocrat hires a dwarf to drown his secret wife so he may marry an heiress.
Lily of Killarney
1930
A poor aristocrat hires a dwarf to drown his secret wife so he may marry an heiress.
Lily of Killarney
1930
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Don't Blame Your Children
1922
8.0An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
The Greek Interpreter
1922
Dr. John Watson treats a patient who has lost a thumb. The patient says that the loss of his thumb was not an accident but the result of an attack. However, he fears that the story behind the loss of his digit is so strange that the police will not believe it.
The Engineer's Thumb
1923
A girl detective and a reporter recover stolen gems hidden in a Chinese idol.
The Amazing Partnership
1921
A German spy named Von Bork has been in England since 1910. Through several agents, he has gathered a significant amount of information relating to the British armed forces and foreign policy. He is unaware that a large amount of that information is false because one of his agents is really Sherlock Holmes, who is working for the British government.
His Last Bow
1923
An earnest young solicitor comes to Holmes just before he is arrested--for murder. He insists he had only just met the victim, and knows nothing of him, though he finds himself his sole beneficiary. But then Holmes finds a new thumb print, and the game is afoot.
The Norwood Builder
1922
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
Black Peter
1922
Hilton Soames, a lecturer in Greek at a university, notices that someone has gone into his study and looked at the text for an unseen translation exam that is due to take place the next day. Suspicion falls on the three students who live in the same building in which Soames lives and works, all of whom are entered for the exam.
The Three Students
1923
No synopsis available yet.
The Root of Evil
1919
7.0Holmes and Watson travel to Cheddar Gorge to escape Professor Moriarty's vengeance.
The Final Problem
1923
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
The Gloria Scott
1923
Colonel Barclay is found dead and his wife is arrested for the murder, but Holmes is convinced a missing door key will reveal the true killer.
The Crooked Man
1923
No synopsis available yet.
A Lost Leader
1922
8.0Somewhere in Georgia is a 1917 silent film, starring baseball great Ty Cobb. It was based on a short story by sports columnist Grantland Rice.
Somewhere in Georgia
1917
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
The Speckled Band
1923
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Fruits of Passion
1919
Holmes is called to a manor house to investigate the brutal murder of a country lord with a fireplace poker and reconcile the story of his bruised and battered wife with the facts.
The Abbey Grange
1922
A man's second wife is blackmailed by her former husband for the murder of her lover.
The Notorious Mrs. Carrick
1924
8.0Genevieve Connors, a young woman from the slums who is given a chance at a better life through the help of a wealthy family, but faces class prejudice and is later involved in a criminal plot.
The Water Lily
1919
The fatal encounter between Henry II and the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket.
Becket
1924
The romantic 13th-century history of Prince Llywelyn of Wales, and his conflict with King Edward I of England.
The Last King of Wales
1922
9.0Holmes is hired by the débutante Lady Eva Blackwell to retrieve compromising letters from a blackmailer:
Charles Augustus Milverton
1922
