Actor Edward Hardwicke, 78, who played Dr. Watson to Jeremy Brett’s Sherlock Holmes on TV in the 1980s and ’90s, died of cancer May 16 in Chichester, England. He also starred as C.S. Lewis’s brother Warren in the film Shadowlands, and voiced video games including Napoleon Total War and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary.

[Thanks to Andrew Porter for the story.]