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Michael Weston (born Michael Rubinstein; October 25, 1973) is an American television and film actor.His best-known roles are the private detective Lucas on House, the deranged and sadistic kidnapper Jake in the HBO serial drama Six Feet Under, and Private Dancer on Scrubs, as well as Harry Houdini in Houdini & Doyle.
Healer, played by Ji Chang-wook; Mike Hammer, by Mickey Spillane; Hanpei Hattori, Kikaider, by Shotaro Ishinomori; Heiji Hattori, by Gosho Aoyama; Hawkshaw, Hawkshaw the Detective; Wayne Hays, True Detective, by Nic Pizzolato; Shotaro Hidari, Kamen Rider W; Ric Hochet, Ric Hochet; Harry Hole, by Jo Nesbø; Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
He was the first fictional private investigator [18] Nameless Detective: Bill Pronzini: The Snatch [19] (1971) Harry Orwell: Howard Rodman: Harry O (TV) (1974) Hercule Poirot: Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) Ellery Queen: Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee: The Roman Hat Mystery (1929) Agatha Raisin: M.C. Beaton
Krekor Ohanian (August 15, 1925 – January 26, 2017), known professionally as Mike Connors, was an American actor.He was best known for playing private detective Joe Mannix in the CBS television series Mannix from 1967 to 1975.
Max Carrados – a blind detective in a series of mystery stories by Ernest Bramah; Detective Inspector Jack Caffery – Mo Hayder; Detective Christine Cagney – Barbara Avedon and Barbara Corday (played by Loretta Swit 1981, Meg Foster 1982 and Sharon Gless 1983 to 1988 in Cagney and Lacey)
Benjamin Leighton "Ben" Matlock is a renowned, folksy yet cantankerous defense attorney who charges a fee of $100,000 to take a case. He is known for visiting crime scenes to discover overlooked clues, as well as his down-home style of coming up with viable, alternative theories of the crime in question (usually murder) while sitting in his office playing the banjo or polishing his shoes.
Kenneth Earl Holliday (born June 25, 1949) is an American actor of stage, film, and television.He is known for his role as Ben Matlock's original private investigator, Tyler Hudson, on Matlock, and as Sgt. Curtis Baker on Carter Country from 1977 until 1979.
These detectives include amateurs, private investigators and professional policemen. They are often popularized as individual characters rather than parts of the fictional work in which they appear. Stories involving individual detectives are well-suited to dramatic presentation, resulting in many popular theatre, television, and film characters.