The role of Stuart Webbs was played by
Ernst Reicher, and once each by
Fritz Greiner, Ralph Clancy, and
Karl Ludwig Diehl.
Joe May directed the films, but directors
Adolf Gärtner,
Johannes Guter,
Max Obal,
Robert Wiene,
Franz Seitz Sr.,
Lupu Pick,
Rudolf Meinert, and Ernst Reicher himself also contributed. The directors of some films are unknown. Stuart Webbs was a gentleman detective modelled after
Sherlock Holmes, who solved even the most difficult cases with intelligence and elegance. Throughout the
First World War, this fictional character was popular with German cinema audiences. Webbs's adventures were filmed regularly until 1921; after that, the individual episodes of the series, now produced by
Emelka, also based in Munich, were produced at irregular intervals. In 1926, a remake of
The Armoured Vault (), again with Reicher in the title role, was produced; it was his last appearance as the suave detective. Two late additions to the series were the silent films
The Green Monocle () with Ralph Clancy and
Masks () with
Karl Ludwig Diehl, both in 1929. In 1935, film historian described the origins of the series: == List of episodes ==