He had been dancing in the moonlight for us; occasionally slipping into those dark crevices where no light pervades but always pirouetting out again under the silver beams to enchant and delight his audience.
The dancing finally stopped on Tuesday 12 September 1995, when Jeremy Brett died peacefully in his sleep.
The moonlight will never be quite the same again[David Stewart Davies, Bending the Willow]
(Source: habinnal)
And some Jeremy Brett just for good measure, because you can never have too much Sherlock Holmes.
He wins the award for sweetest man in the history of the planet.