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Ken, I agree with you about Jeremy Brett as Holmes. He seemed to have nailed the character down to a 'T', or an 'H' for Holmes, and the whole run of his shows as the great detective were brilliant.
Basil Rathbone will always be a favorite Holmes too, but the stories ended up taking too many liberties with the character IMHO. Granted the war had lots to do with the presentation of the character, but I still like the movies. The tv Holmes with
Ronald Howard are fun to watch, but they too stray from the original stories. I have many of the Howard tv shows on dvd, and still enjoy watching them from time to time.
Arthur Wontner and William Gillette were unique in one way: I thought they both resembled the Baker St. sleuth quite a bit according to the early artist renditions of the character.
I am a fan of Hammer Films, and so I do like Peter Cushing as Holmes. Christopher Lee made his Holmes films for a German company, if memory serves, and even though I am a big Lee fan, I didn't really care all that much for his movies as Holmes.
Sherlock Holmes has always been a favorite fictional character of mine, and I will always be there to watch him on the silver screen or the television whenever he appears, and if it's too long to wait for my Holmes 'fix', I have the complete series of stories in one volume that I still enjoy to read and re-read.

Here's a bit of Chris Lee/Holmes trivia. He has played Holmes as mention above, and he also played Holmes' brother Mycroft. He also played Sir Henry Baskerville in his friend Peter Cushing's version of the Hound of the Baskervilles. Now there is a rumor he might play the insidious Professor Moriarty in a future film of the great detective. That is strictly a rumor however. Gee, ya think Lee loves playing in Holmes stories too?