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 nineteen eighties, he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in three consecutive years Description above from the Wikipedia article Denholm Elliott, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2008
as Marcus Brody (archive footage) (uncredited)
Set during the Cold War, the Soviets—led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko—are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a my...

Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
2003
as Self (archive footage)
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg tell the struggles and the passion for making the Indiana Jones Trilogy.

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000
as Self (archive footage)
A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors. Compiled from inter...

Noises Off...
1992
as Selsdon Mowbray / The Burglar
Hired to helm an Americanized take on a British play, director Lloyd Fellowes does his best to control an eccentric group of stage actors. With a star...

One Against the Wind
1991
as Father LeBlanc
Mary Linden works for the French Red Cross in Occupied France during World War II and helps allied soldiers who have been shot down to escape to the u...

A Murder of Quality
1991
as George Smiley
At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the murder of Stella Rode. Brimley had only just receive...

Scorchers
1991
as Howler
Bayou La Teche, Louisiana sizzles as the Cajun town celebrates the wedding of Splendid and Dolan. The trouble comes on the wedding night when Splendid...

Toy Soldiers
1991
as Headmaster
After federal agents arrest a drug czar and put him on trial, the cartel leader's vicious son storms a prep school and takes its students hostage. The...

The Black Candle
1991
as William Filmore
Lily Whitmore is the heir to a crumbling factory that she's determined to restore to its former glory. Unfortunately, Lily must instead turn her atten...

Sunday Pursuit
1990
as Thomas Wilkins
Thomas Wilkins has faithfully worked his entire life on Saville Row. Suddenly he is fired by his boss Mr Gerald, who wants a younger man with new idea...

The Love She Sought
1990
as James O'Hannon
An aging school teacher (Lansbury) at a Catholic grammar school in Minnesota questions her life's existence when she has to start battling a new bisho...

Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
1989
as Nathy
A man, always very devoted to his mother, decides to look for his father whom he never met. He meets a seducing older woman prone to drinking and her ...

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
as Marcus Brody
In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval his...

Return from the River Kwai
1989
as Colonel Grayson
A group of war prisoners has spilt blood, sweat and tears to construct a bridge over the river Kwai in Thailand. Just when the bridge is ready, an Ame...

Stealing Heaven
1988
as Fulbert
Abelard, a famous teacher of philosophy at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, falls in love with one of his students, Héloïse d'Argenteuil. A sixtee...

Hanna's War
1988
Hanna's War is the true story of Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who would become Israel's "Joan of Arc". As a young person, ...

Codename: Kyril
1988
as Povin
At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely reported pretenses in order to hopefully indirectly spark...

Keys to Freedom
1988
as Inspector Basil Crisp
The keys to freedom for citizens of Hong Kong are U.S. passports, as their city quakes with the imminent transition to Chinese Communist rule. A deadl...

A Child's Christmas in Wales
1987
as Old Geraint
It's Christmas Eve in Wales. A young boy named Thomas is excited about the holiday, but he's also disappointed because it's raining instead of snowing...

September
1987
as Howard
After a suicide attempt, Lane has moved into her country house to recuperate. Her best friend, Stephanie, has come to join her for the summer. Lane's ...

Maurice
1987
as Dr. Barry
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.

The Happy Valley
1987
as Sir Henry 'Jock' Delves Broughton
In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent, self-indulgent lifestyle, that leads to murder. ...

Brimstone and Treacle
1987
as Tom Bates
The Bates care for their severely disabled daughter Pattie. Martin arrives at their door claiming to be her college friend. He charms them into accept...

Scoop
1987
as Salter
Scoop is a 1987 TV film directed by Gavin Millar, adapted by William Boyd from the 1938 satirical novel Scoop by Evelyn Waugh. It was produced by Sue ...

Past Caring
1986
as Victor
67 year-old Victor is forced to move into an old people's home but he prefers to grow old disgracefully.

The Whoopee Boys
1986
as Col. Phelps
Two obnoxious and dim-witted misfits attempt to save a school for needy children by attempting to sneak into the wealthy high society of Palm Beach to...

Defence of the Realm
1986
as Vernon Bayliss
A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenag...

Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry
1986
as George Parker
A rich widow shocks her snobbish WASP family when she decides to marry her Jewish, divorced, doctor. His family is equally shocked.

A Room with a View
1986
as Mr. Emerson
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George st...

Hotel du Lac
1986
as Philip Neville
Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by obse...

Transmutations
1985
as Dr. Savary
When high class hooker Nicole is kidnapped from her brothel, Rich businessman Hugo Motherskille hires her ex love Roy Bain to find her. Investigating ...

Camille
1984
as Count de Noilly
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hop...

A Private Function
1984
as Dr. Swaby
In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Ch...

The Razor's Edge
1984
as Elliott Templeton
An American WWI vet undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himalayas and back to his hometown. Upon his return, he dis...

The Hound of the Baskervilles
1983
as Dr. Mortimer
Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near h...

Trading Places
1983
as Coleman
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

The Wicked Lady
1983
as Sir Ralph Skelton
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, ...

The Missionary
1982
as The Bishop of London
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment...

Brimstone & Treacle
1982
as Tom Bates
A strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer.

Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981
as Dr. Marcus Brody
When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legen...

You're All Right, How Am I?
1981
as Psychiatrist
' If you walked down Piccadilly naked and refused to put your clothes on when the police requested you to do so, even though you might not superficial...

Sunday Lovers
1980
as Parker (segment "An Englishman's Home")
A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA and Italy). "An Englishman's Home" "The French Met...

Blade on the Feather
1980
as Jack Hill
A reclusive, elderly author is visited by a young admirer … but both men are more than they claim to be.

Rising Damp
1980
as Charles Seymour
Stingy landlord Rigsby manages to scam his lodgers John, an art student, and Philip, an African medical student, making both pay for a room they must ...

In Hiding
1980
as Bernard
A teenager learns about life and death while staying with his aunt during the school holidays.

Bad Timing
1980
as Stefan Vognic
Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Though Alex is quite a bit older than Milena, he's at...

Gentle Folk
1980
as F J Dobbs
An Edwardian house party given by a Fabian woman, her business-man husband and assorted guests from politics and the Arts - including a young man pron...
Donkeys' Years
1980
as Alan Quine
Michael Frayn's play about a college reunion.

Cuba
1979
as Donald Skinner
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances...

Game for Vultures
1979
as Raglan Thistle
The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man.

Zulu Dawn
1979
as Colonel Pulleine
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.

Saint Jack
1979
as William Leigh
Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. His dreams of building a fortune by running a...

School Play
1979
as Jeffrey Treasure
Life in an English public school - with all the parts played by adults.

Death Becomes Me
1979
as Roland
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), investig...

Watership Down
1978
as Cowslip (voice)
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a ...

The Boys from Brazil
1978
as Sidney Beynon
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

Crest of a Wave
1978
as Jim
Recently made redundant, Jim takes his wife Bridget to meet his old scouting pal Nifty. As well as campfire memories to swop, there just might be the ...

Little Girl in Blue Velvet
1978
as Mike
An ageing surgeon falls in love with a thirteen-year-old girl.

The Hound of the Baskervilles
1978
as Stapleton
The death of Sir Charles Baskerville is blamed on a curse that has followed the Baskerville family for two hundred years. Sherlock Holmes is out to un...

Sweeney 2
1978
as Ex-Det. Chief Superintendent Jupp
The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away each time with an amount around the £60,000 ma...

Shooting the Chandelier
1977
as Semyon
During the closing days of the Second World War, a young Czechoslovakian woman, Blanka, is caught between ideologies of the Soviet regime. Part of BBC...

Across the Andes by Frog
1977
as Mr. Gregory
Explorer Walter Snetterton and his party travel to the Andes to prove his theory that frogs are able to climb mountains. Due to the Cup Final the only...

The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
1977
as English Delegate
John Cleese is hilarious as the descendant of Sherlock Holmes in this modern detective drama of international power politics and intrigue. Unlike his ...

A Bridge Too Far
1977
as RAF meteorologist officer
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in H...

Voyage of the Damned
1976
as Admiral Canaris
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.

The Signalman
1976
as The Signalman
A traveller comes across a signalman stationed by the exit of a railway tunnel in a deep cutting. The traveller becomes familiar with the signalman, a...

Robin and Marian
1976
as Will Scarlet
Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.

To the Devil a Daughter
1976
as Henry Beddows
An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her...

Partners
1976
as John Grey
When a business competitor assassinates her father when the father refuses to sell his firm, young woman takes over her father's paper company and wit...

Russian Roulette
1975
as John Petapiece
An RCMP officer is ordered to discreetly take a Russian immigrant into custody in advance of a state visit by the Soviet premier. When the prisoner is...

The Crazy Kill
1975
as Dr. Frank Henson
A doctor and his wife are held hostage in their country home by an escaped convict and his sidekick, but a journalist's arrival complicates matters.

Percy's Progress
1974
as Sir Emmanuel Whitbread
Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in the world's water that makes men impotent.

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974
as Friar
The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his sho...

The Lady From the Sea
1974
as Dr. Wangel
A lighthouse keeper's daughter, lives her opportunist marital life, until her past lover appears in her life.

The Last Chapter
1974
as Robert Murray
A dark tale in which a successful novelist is unbalanced by an assured young female fan.

A Doll's House
1973
as Nils Krogstad
Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed, and li...

The Vault of Horror
1973
as Diltant (segment 5 "Drawn and Quartered")
The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include vampi...
Anywhere but England
1972
as Miles
Jennifer visiting her Dad living on a Mediterranean Island, finds his way of life is now being threatened by local politics.
Follow The Yellow Brick Road
1972
as Jack Black
Jack Black is a disturbed actor who believes himself to be trapped in a television play, followed around by an invisible camera.
Night Duty
1972
as Swan
A night worker at a mental institution finds his job beginning to change.

Madame Sin
1972
as Malcolm De Vere
A CIA agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman's plan to steal a Polaris submarine.

Quest for Love
1971
as Tom Lewis
After a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong during a demonstration, a scientist finds himself trapped in an alternate reality that bears some si...

The Wild Duck
1971
as Hjalmar Ekdal, Hedvig's father
A devestating, yet bracing look at a family whose proximity to each other belies the decay of their relationships, The Wild Duck is just as modern tod...

The House That Dripped Blood
1971
as Charles Hillyer (segment 1 "Method for Murder")
A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.

Percy
1971
as Emmanuel Whitbread
Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the d...

The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
1970
as Peter NIss
Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into p...

Too Late the Hero
1970
as Captain Hornsby
A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a m...

Scenes from Family Life
1969
as Walter
The eternal triangle can change shape but always has three sides.

The Sea Gull
1968
as Dr. Yevgeny Dorn
Film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th century.

The Night They Raided Minsky's
1968
as Vance Fowler
Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy Minsky's Burlesque is hardly the place for her Da...

Dracula
1968
as Count Dracula
A asylum patient intrudes upon a house party referring to the guest of honor—Count Dracula—as "Master." Moments later he insists he does not know the ...
Let's Murder Vivaldi
1968
as Gerald
Two couples let tensions build between them in this 'Wednesday Play'.

Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
1968
as Mr. George Beauchamp
Jamie McGregor is a virginal sixth-former in suburbia delivering groceries for the local supermarket, but he is more interested in other matters - Mar...

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1968
as George Devlin
In this Dan Curtis production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, Jack Palance stars as Dr. Henry Jekyll, a scientist experimenting to reveal the h...

Maroc 7
1967
as Inspector Barrada
The lady of a top fashion magazine doubles as a jewel thief and becomes involved in Moroccan intrigue.

The Spy with a Cold Nose
1966
as Pond-Jones
A dog with a spying device under its skin is sent to the Russian government as a present. When the Russians send the dog to a veterinary, British int...

Alfie
1966
as The Abortionist
A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.

The Fall of the House of Usher
1966
as Roderick Usher
A young man seeks the woman he has fallen in love with at an isolated old house, and comes into conflict with her neurotic brother.

King Rat
1965
as Larkin
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison....

You Must Be Joking
1965
as Captain Tabasco
A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items.
Man and Mirror
1965
as Geoffrey Manners
Mrs Isobel Manners lives a large Victorian house with her two grown up sons; Geoffrey and Edward. Mrs Manners is convinced that someone is trying to m...

The Holy Terror
1965
as Herbert
A television dramatization based on the life and work of Florence Nightingale. The story, set in 1856, relates the incidents in her life following the...

A Little Temptation
1965
as Vincent
A writer is having an affair with a married woman and gets embroiled with the other women in her life.

The High Bright Sun
1964
as Baker
This story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to free itself from colonial rule, and one man tries to serv...

Nothing But the Best
1964
as Charlie Prince
Success has James Brewster's name written all over it, and he also has his heart set on his boss's daughter. A con artist hires him to help out on a b...

The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
1963
as Montague Corry
The rise of the legendary 19th-century British politician and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.

Station Six-Sahara
1963
as Macey
A beautiful blonde joins a small group of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and starts the emotions soaring.

Scent of Mystery
1960
as Oliver Larker
An Englishman and a cabby try to save an heiress from murder in Spain.

The Moon and Sixpence
1959
as The Writer
A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Seas.

The Winslow Boy
1958
as Sir Robert Morton
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

Wuthering Heights
1958
as Edgar Norton
Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting reveng...

Twelfth Night
1957
as Sebastian
Twins Viola and Sebastian are separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself as a man and enters the service of Duke Or...
The Lark
1957
as Warwick
Adaptation of Jean Anouilh's 1952 play about Joan of Arc, the young girl who led the French to victory against the English in the Hundred Years' War.

Pacific Destiny
1956
as Arthur Grimble
Life is strange and worrying for a cadet who arrives in the Pacific in the colonial service. And the testy resident commissioner, who had been expecti...

The Night My Number Came Up
1955
as Fl. Lt. McKenzie
British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small D...

The Man Who Loved Redheads
1955
as Denis
Framed in flashback, The Man Who Loved Redheads is an anecdotal comedy about a man (John Justin) whose life is defined by his first romantic experienc...

Lease of Life
1954
as Martin Blake
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.

They Who Dare
1954
as Sergeant Corcoran
In Greece during the war a small group of British commandoes and patriots land on an island with orders to attack two airfields from which the Luftwaf...
Tonight in Britain
1954
as Self
A short survey of British entertainment and London attractions photographed at Edinburgh, Stratford and in London.

The Heart of the Matter
1953
as Wilson
Based on Graham Greene’s novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when he has an affair with a younger woman.

The Cruel Sea
1953
as Morell
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. Th...

The Holly and the Ivy
1952
as Michael Gregory
An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering.

The Ringer
1952
as John Lemley
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.

The Sound Barrier
1952
as Christopher Ridgefield
Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.

Dear Mr. Prohack
1949
as Oswald Morfrey
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and...