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==Portrayal in film, television and fiction== * The 1939 film ''[[The Story of Alexander Graham Bell]]'' was based on his life and works.<ref>{{cite news|title=THE SCREEN; The founding of the Wrong-Number Industry WellDramatized in Roxy's 'Alexander Graham Bell' At the 86th St. Garden Theatre At Three Theatres At the 86th Street Casino|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9504E3D6133CE73ABC4953DFB2668382629EDE|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=February 2, 2017|date=April 1, 1939}}</ref> * ''Eyewitness No. 90 A Great Inventor Is Remembered'', a 1957 [[National Film Board of Canada|NFB]] short about Bell. * The 1965 [[BBC]] miniseries ''Alexander Graham Bell'' starring [[Alec McCowen]] and [[Francesca Annis]]. * The 1992 film ''[[The Sound and the Silence]]'' was a TV film. * ''[[Biography (TV series)|Biography]]'' aired an episode ''Alexander Graham Bell: Voice of Invention'' on August 6, 1996. * John Tench portrays Bell five times in the [[CBC Television|Canadian television]] period [[Detective fiction|detective series]] [[Murdoch Mysteries]]. Bell appeared in "[[List of Murdoch Mysteries episodes#Season 5 (2012)|Invention Convention]]" (April 24, 2012), "[[List of Murdoch Mysteries episodes#Season 5 (2012)|Murdoch in Toyland]]" (May 8, 2012), "[[List of Murdoch Mysteries episodes#Season 11 (2017β2018)|8 Footsteps]]" (October 9, 2017), "[[List of Murdoch Mysteries episodes#Season 13 (2019β2020)|Staring Blindly into the Future]]" (January 13, 2020) and "[[List of Murdoch Mysteries episodes#Season 16 (2022β2023)|Murdoch and the Sonic Boom]]" (October 24, 2022). * ''A Sign of Her Own,'' by Sarah Marsh (2024),<ref>{{Cite book |last=Marsh |first=Sarah |title=A Sign of Her Own |date=February 2024 |publisher=[[Headline]] |isbn=9781035401642 |language=en}}</ref> a novel about a pupil of Bell's Visible Speech, who is "gradually realising and acting upon the harm he was inflicting on her and other deaf people."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Straus |first=Jean |date=2024 |title=Thoughts shared - RNID SUMMER 2024 |journal=RNID |issue=Summer 2024 |pages=26}}</ref>
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