1. Denholm Elliott appeared in numerous productions on stage and screen, receiving BAFTA awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Trading Places, A Private Function and Defence of the Realm, and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Mr Emerson in A Room with a View.
Denholm Elliott portrayed Marcus Brody in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
On television, Elliott won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in 1981 and was nominated for a second for Hotel du Lac.
Denholm Elliott was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1988.
Denholm Elliott was born 31 May 1922, in Kensington, London, the son of Nina and Myles Layman Farr Denholm Elliott, MBE, a barrister who had read law and Arabic at Cambridge before fighting with the Gloucestershire Regiment on Gallipoli and in Mesopotamia.
In 1930, Myles Denholm Elliott was appointed solicitor-general to the Mandatory Government in Palestine.
Denholm Elliott's elder brother Neil Emerson Denholm Elliott was a land agent to Lady Anne Cavendish-Bentinck.
Denholm Elliott attended Malvern College and joined the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Denholm Elliott formed a theatre group that was so successful it toured other POW camps playing Twelfth Night.
Denholm Elliott took over for an ill Michael Aldridge for one season of The Man in Room 17.
Denholm Elliott made many television appearances, which included plays by Dennis Potter such as Follow the Yellow Brick Road, Brimstone and Treacle, and Blade on the Feather.
Denholm Elliott starred in the BBC's adaptation of Charles Dickens's short story The Signalman.
Denholm Elliott co-starred with Jack Palance in the Canadian-American television film The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Denholm Elliott received an Academy Award nomination for playing Mr Emerson in A Room with a View.
Denholm Elliott played Dr Marcus Brody, an academic and friend of Indiana Jones, in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
In 1988 Denholm Elliott played the Russian mole Povin, around whom the entire plot revolves, in the television miniseries Codename: Kyril.
Denholm Elliott had worked with Sinden's father, Donald Sinden, in The Cruel Sea.
Denholm Elliott co-starred with Katharine Hepburn and Harold Gould in the television film Mrs Delafield Wants to Marry and with Nicole Kidman in Bangkok Hilton.
In 1988, Denholm Elliott was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to acting.
Denholm Elliott's career included many stage performances, including with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and an acclaimed turn as the twin brothers in Jean Anouilh's Ring Round the Moon.
Denholm Elliott was diagnosed with HIV in 1987 and died of AIDS-related tuberculosis at his home in Santa Eularia des Riu on Ibiza, on 6 October 1992, aged 70.
Denholm Elliott was one of the last stars who was a real gentleman.
Denholm Elliott had an affection and feeling for other actors, which is very unusual in our business.
Denholm Elliott worked closely with the UK Coalition of People Living with HIV and AIDS.
Denholm Elliott died on 12 April 2007, aged 65, in a fire in her flat in Hornsey, London.