Denholm Elliott appeared in numerous productions on stage and screen, receiving three BAFTA awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Trading Places, A Private Function and Defence of the Realm.
26 Facts About Denholm Elliott
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Denholm Elliott received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Mr Emerson in A Room with a View.
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Denholm Elliott portrayed Marcus Brody in the Steven Spielberg films Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
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Denholm Elliott was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1988.
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In 1930, Myles Denholm Elliott was appointed solicitor-general to the Mandatory Government in Palestine.
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Denholm Elliott's elder brother Neil Emerson Denholm Elliott was a land agent to Lady Anne Cavendish-Bentinck.
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Denholm Elliott attended Malvern College and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
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Denholm Elliott was asked to leave the academy after one term.
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Denholm Elliott formed a theatre group that was so successful it toured other POW camps playing Twelfth Night.
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Denholm Elliott took over for an ill Michael Aldridge for one season of The Man in Room 17.
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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.
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Denholm Elliott starred in the BBC's adaptation of Charles Dickens's short story The Signalman.
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Denholm Elliott received an Academy Award nomination for A Room with a View.
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Denholm Elliott became familiar to a wider audience as the well-meaning but confused Dr Marcus Brody in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
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In 1988 Denholm Elliott was the Russian mole Povin, around whom the entire plot revolves, in the television miniseries Codename: Kyril.
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Denholm Elliott had worked with Sinden's father, Sir Donald Sinden, in the film The Cruel Sea.
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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.
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In 1988 Denholm Elliott was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to acting.
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Denholm Elliott's career included many stage performances, including with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and a well-acclaimed turn as the twin brothers in Jean Anouilh's Ring Round the Moon.
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Secretly bisexual, Denholm Elliott was married twice: first to actress Virginia McKenna for a few months in 1954, and later in an open marriage to American actress Susan Robinson, with whom he had two children, Mark and Jennifer, the latter of whom died by suicide in 2003.
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Denholm Elliott was diagnosed with HIV in 1987 and died of AIDS-related tuberculosis at his home in Santa Eularia des Riu on Ibiza, Spain, on 6 October 1992 at the age of 70.
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Denholm Elliott was one of the last stars who was a real gentleman.
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Denholm Elliott had an affection and feeling for other actors, which is very unusual in our business.
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Denholm Elliott's widow set up a charity, the Denholm Elliott Project, and collaborated on his biography.
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Denholm Elliott worked closely with the UK Coalition of People Living with HIV and AIDS.
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Susan Robinson Denholm Elliott died on 12 April 2007, aged 65, in a fire in her flat in London.