Vasily Borisovich Livanov (July 19, 1935, Moscow, USSR) - Soviet and Russian film actor, film and animation director, screenwriter, writer. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1988). He was best known for creating the screen image of Sherlock Holmes in a series of television films directed by Igor Maslennikov based on the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, for which he was admitted to the Order of the British Empire in 2006].