Denholm Elliott
Date of birth: 1922-05-31
Place of birth: Ealing, London, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Denholm Elliot, Denholm Mitchell Elliott
Biography
Denholm Mitchell Elliott, CBE (31 May 1922 – 6 October 1992) was an English actor of stage and screen, with over 120 major film and TV credits. In the 1980s, he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in three consecutive years.
Movie Credits
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981-06-12
When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologis
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989-05-24
In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search f
Trading Places
1983-06-07
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by t
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1968-01-07
In this Dan Curtis production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, Jack Palance stars as Dr. Henry
Toy Soldiers
1991-04-24
After federal agents arrest a drug czar and put him on trial, the cartel leader's vicious son storms
Robin and Marian
1976-03-11
Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Maria
A Room with a View
1986-03-07
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000-08-01
A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britai
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
1977-09-18
John Cleese is hilarious as the descendant of Sherlock Holmes in this modern detective drama of inte
September
1987-12-18
After a suicide attempt, Lane has moved into her country house to recuperate. Her best friend, Steph
The Razor's Edge
1984-10-19
An American WWI veteran undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himal
Rising Damp
1980-05-03
Stingy landlord Rigsby manages to scam his lodgers John, an art student, and Philip, an African medi
Maurice
1987-09-18
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restric
Bad Timing
1980-03-02
Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Tho
Noises Off...
1992-03-20
Hired to helm an Americanized take on a British play, director Lloyd Fellowes does his best to contr
To the Devil a Daughter
1976-03-04
An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led
King Rat
1965-10-27
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a
Defence of the Realm
1986-05-09
A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB ag
A Doll's House
1973-04-10
Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian hus
The Night They Raided Minsky's
1968-12-22
Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy
The Whoopee Boys
1986-08-22
Two obnoxious and dim-witted misfits attempt to save a school for needy children by attempting to sn
Scorchers
1991-07-07
Bayou La Teche, Louisiana sizzles as the Cajun town celebrates the wedding of Splendid and Dolan. Th
Alfie
1966-03-29
A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes
A Little Temptation
1965-03-17
A writer is having an affair with a married woman and gets embroiled with the other women in her lif
Cuba
1979-12-21
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army
One Against the Wind
1991-12-01
Mary Linden works for the French Red Cross in Occupied France during World War II and helps allied s
The Boys from Brazil
1978-10-05
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot, masterminded by Dr. Josef Mengele,
A Murder of Quality
1991-10-04
At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the mu
The Cruel Sea
1953-02-24
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexp
The House That Dripped Blood
1971-02-22
A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.
Zulu Dawn
1979-05-14
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
1968-01-22
Jamie McGregor is a virginal sixth-former in suburbia delivering groceries for the local supermarket
Brimstone & Treacle
1982-10-01
A strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer.
The Vault of Horror
1973-03-16
The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1983-11-03
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Ho
The Night My Number Came Up
1955-03-22
British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pil
Madame Sin
1972-01-15
A CIA agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman's plan to steal a Polaris submarine.
Dracula
1968-11-18
A asylum patient intrudes upon a house party referring to the guest of honor—Count Dracula—as "Maste
The Lark
1957-02-10
Adaptation of Jean Anouilh's 1952 play about Joan of Arc, the young girl who led the French to victo
Sweeney 2
1978-03-30
The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting a
Voyage of the Damned
1976-12-22
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
Transmutations
1985-11-29
When high class hooker Nicole is kidnapped from her brothel, Rich businessman Hugo Motherskille hire
A Private Function
1984-11-09
In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince
Percy
1971-02-18
Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors
Saint Jack
1979-04-27
Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimp
Return from the River Kwai
1989-04-07
A group of war prisoners has spilt blood, sweat and tears to construct a bridge over the river Kwai
Percy's Progress
1974-08-01
Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in the wo
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
1970-11-12
Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the
The Holly and the Ivy
1952-12-03
An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes
The Signalman
1976-12-22
A traveller comes across a signalman stationed by the exit of a railway tunnel in a deep cutting. Th
The Love She Sought
1990-10-21
An aging school teacher (Lansbury) at a Catholic grammar school in Minnesota questions her life's ex
Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry
1986-03-30
A rich widow shocks her snobbish WASP family when she decides to marry her Jewish, divorced, doctor.
Brimstone and Treacle
1987-08-25
The Bates care for their severely disabled daughter Pattie. Martin arrives at their door claiming to
The Wicked Lady
1983-04-21
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara sedu
Nothing But the Best
1964-03-10
Success has James Brewster's name written all over it, and he also has his heart set on his boss's d
Scent of Mystery
1960-01-12
An Englishman and a cabby try to save an heiress from murder in Spain.
Scoop
1987-04-26
Scoop is a 1987 TV film directed by Gavin Millar, adapted by William Boyd from the 1938 satirical no
Stealing Heaven
1988-05-20
Abelard, a famous teacher of philosophy at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, falls in love with on
They Who Dare
1954-02-02
In Greece during the war a small group of British commandoes and patriots land on an island with ord
The Heart of the Matter
1953-11-03
Based on Graham Greene’s novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when h
The High Bright Sun
1964-11-01
This story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to free it
Station Six-Sahara
1963-01-11
A beautiful blonde joins a small group of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and starts
Dear Mr. Prohack
1949-09-07
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for
The Last Chapter
1974-01-01
A dark tale in which a successful novelist is unbalanced by an assured young female fan.
The Sea Gull
1968-12-23
Film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th
Maroc 7
1967-03-22
The lady of a top fashion magazine doubles as a jewel thief and becomes involved in Moroccan intrigu
The Lady From the Sea
1974-03-05
A lighthouse keeper's daughter, lives her opportunist marital life, until her past lover appears in
Hotel du Lac
1986-03-02
Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swis
Lease of Life
1954-10-18
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so fa
Partners
1976-01-10
When a business competitor assassinates her father when the father refuses to sell his firm, young w
Russian Roulette
1975-08-20
An RCMP officer is ordered to discreetly take a Russian immigrant into custody in advance of a state
The Man Who Loved Redheads
1955-02-06
Framed in flashback, The Man Who Loved Redheads is an anecdotal comedy about a man (John Justin) who
Game for Vultures
1979-06-25
The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. Th
Keys to Freedom
1988-01-01
The keys to freedom for citizens of Hong Kong are U.S. passports, as their city quakes with the immi
The Ringer
1952-11-24
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.
The Spy with a Cold Nose
1966-12-19
A dog with a spying device under its skin is sent to the Russian government as a present. When the R
The Wild Duck
1971-03-21
A devestating, yet bracing look at a family whose proximity to each other belies the decay of their
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
1978-08-23
An ageing surgeon falls in love with a thirteen-year-old girl.
You Must Be Joking
1965-08-03
A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a sele
Watership Down
1978-10-14
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwi
Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
1989-09-01
A man, always very devoted to his mother, decides to look for his father whom he never met. He meets
The Sound Barrier
1952-07-22
Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.
Follow The Yellow Brick Road
1972-07-04
Jack Black is a disturbed actor who believes himself to be trapped in a television play, followed ar
Twelfth Night
1957-12-15
Twins Viola and Sebastian are separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises
Let's Murder Vivaldi
1968-04-10
Two couples let tensions build between them in this 'Wednesday Play'.
Camille
1984-12-11
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval.
Sunday Lovers
1980-10-31
A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA
Donkeys' Years
1980-01-01
Michael Frayn's play about a college reunion.
Gentle Folk
1980-01-19
An Edwardian house party given by a Fabian woman, her business-man husband and assorted guests from
School Play
1979-01-01
Life in an English public school - with all the parts played by adults.
Too Late the Hero
1970-05-20
A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island
Anywhere but England
1972-10-31
Jennifer visiting her Dad living on a Mediterranean Island, finds his way of life is now being threa
Pacific Destiny
1956-01-01
Life is strange and worrying for a cadet who arrives in the Pacific in the colonial service. And the
A Child's Christmas in Wales
1987-12-23
It's Christmas Eve in Wales. A young boy named Thomas is excited about the holiday, but he's also di
The Black Candle
1991-01-01
Lily Whitmore is the heir to a crumbling factory that she's determined to restore to its former glor
The Fall of the House of Usher
1966-02-12
A young man seeks the woman he has fallen in love with at an isolated old house, and comes into conf
The Missionary
1982-11-02
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to Engl
Quest for Love
1971-06-06
After a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong during a demonstration, a scientist finds himself
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2008-05-21
Set during the Cold War, the Soviets—led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko—are in search of a crystal s
A Bridge Too Far
1977-06-15
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to
Across the Andes by Frog
1977-10-18
Explorer Walter Snetterton and his party travel to the Andes to prove his theory that frogs are able
Blade on the Feather
1980-10-19
A reclusive, elderly author is visited by a young admirer … but both men are more than they claim to
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974-04-11
The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name fo
The Happy Valley
1987-09-06
In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent,
Sunday Pursuit
1990-11-23
Thomas Wilkins has faithfully worked his entire life on Saville Row. Suddenly he is fired by his bos
Past Caring
1986-11-02
67 year-old Victor is forced to move into an old people's home but he prefers to grow old disgracefu
The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
1963-04-03
The rise of the legendary 19th-century British politician and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1978-08-01
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Ho
Codename: Kyril
1988-03-29
At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely reporte
Hanna's War
1988-04-14
Hanna's War is the true story of Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who would
Wuthering Heights
1958-05-09
Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a we
The Winslow Boy
1958-11-13
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents
Scenes from Family Life
1969-09-25
The eternal triangle can change shape but always has three sides.
Shooting the Chandelier
1977-10-26
During the closing days of the Second World War, a young Czechoslovakian woman, Blanka, is caught be
The Holy Terror
1965-04-07
A television dramatization based on the life and work of Florence Nightingale. The story, set in 185
The Crazy Kill
1975-02-25
A doctor and his wife are held hostage in their country home by an escaped convict and his sidekick,
The Moon and Sixpence
1959-10-30
A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Sea
Crest of a Wave
1978-09-18
Recently made redundant, Jim takes his wife Bridget to meet his old scouting pal Nifty. As well as c
In Hiding
1980-03-10
A teenager learns about life and death while staying with his aunt during the school holidays.
You're All Right, How Am I?
1981-05-01
' If you walked down Piccadilly naked and refused to put your clothes on when the police requested y
Death Becomes Me
1979-01-01
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Ro
Tonight in Britain
1954-01-01
A short survey of British entertainment and London attractions photographed at Edinburgh, Stratford
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
2003-10-21
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg tell the struggles and the passion for making the Indiana Jones Tr
Night Duty
1972-06-20
A night worker at a mental institution finds his job beginning to change.
Man and Mirror
1965-06-13
Mrs Isobel Manners lives a large Victorian house with her two grown up sons; Geoffrey and Edward. Mr