"This man is Evil!"
Lord Henry Blackwood is the main antagonist of the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes.
He was portrayed by Mark Strong.
Trivia[]
- The actor who played Blackwood was Mark Strong for the roles of Frank D'Amico and Sinestro for his role of villains.
- Blackwood has similar looks to Count Dracula.
- While Lord Blackwood is an original character, it is possible that his name is inspired from the main antagonist of The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone, none other than Count Negretto Sylvius. Negre and Silvi mean Black and Wood.
- Blackwood's obsession with spiritualism is possibly a reference to Conan Doyle's own occult eccentricity. The way his "magic" is revealed to be nothing more than trickery and elaborate science mirrors the confusion of The Hound of the Baskervilles.
- Since Sir Thomas conceived Blackwood with one of the women he used for his rituals and not his wife, Blackwood is the product of an affair.
- Blackwood's last kills were meant to look like elementalism, as he killed his father with water, Reordan with earth, John Standish with fire and planned to kill off British Parliament with air.