Denholm Elliott

{{Infobox person

| name = Denholm Elliott

| honorific_suffix = CBE

| image = Actor_Denholm_Elliott.jpg

| caption = Elliott in 1985

| alt =

| birth_name = Denholm Mitchell Elliott

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1922|5|31|df=y}}

| birth_place = Kensington, Middlesex, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1992|10|6|1922|5|31|df=y}}

| death_place = Santa Eulària des Riu, Ibiza, Spain

| education = Malvern College

| alma_mater = Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

| other_names =

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1949–1992

| spouse = {{plainlist|

{{marriage|Virginia McKenna|1954|1957|reason=divorce}}
{{marriage|Susan Robinson|1962}}

}}

| children = 2

}}

Denholm Mitchell Elliott {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (31 May 1922 – 6 October 1992) was an English actor. He appeared in numerous productions on stage and screen, receiving BAFTA awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Trading Places (1983), A Private Function (1984) and Defence of the Realm (1986),{{efn|to this day, a still-unbeaten record.}} and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Mr. Emerson in A Room with a View (1985). He is also known for his performances in Alfie (1966), A Doll's House (1973), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Maurice (1987), September (1987), and Noises Off (1992). He portrayed Marcus Brody in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). On television, Elliott won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in 1981 and was nominated for a second for Hotel du Lac (1986).{{Cite web |title=Actor |url=https://www.bafta.org/awards/television/actor-television |access-date=2025-02-09 |website=Bafta |language=en}}

The American film critic Roger Ebert described Elliott as "the most dependable of all British character actors."{{cite book |first=Roger |last=Ebert |title=Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews 1967–2007|year=2008|page=655|publisher=Andrews McMeel Publishing|isbn=978-0740771798}} The New York Times called him "a star among supporting players" and "an accomplished scene-stealer".{{cite news | url= https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/07/obituaries/denholm-elliott-actor-70-dies-a-star-among-supporting-players.html | title= Denholm Elliott, Actor, 70, Dies; A Star Among Supporting Players | work=The New York Times | location=New York | first=Bruce | last=Lambert | date=7 October 1992 | access-date=11 February 2017}} He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 1988.

Early life

Elliott was born 31 May 1922, in Kensington, London, the son of Nina (née Mitchell; 1893–1966) and Myles Layman Farr Elliott, MBE (1890–1933),{{cite ODNB | doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/51023|title = The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year = 2004}} a barrister who had read law and Arabic at Cambridge before fighting with the Gloucestershire Regiment on Gallipoli and in Mesopotamia. In 1930, Myles Elliott was appointed solicitor-general to the Mandatory Government in Palestine. Three years later, following a series of controversial government prosecutions, he was assassinated outside the King David Hotel and buried in the Protestant Cemetery on Mount Zion.{{cite news|title=Obituary Neil Elliott|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1427451/Neil-Elliott.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1427451/Neil-Elliott.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=5 September 2016|newspaper=Daily Telegraph|date=14 April 2003}}{{cbignore}}

Elliott's elder brother Neil Emerson Elliott (1920–2003) was a land agent to Lady Anne Cavendish-Bentinck.

Elliott attended Malvern College and joined the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London.{{cite web |url= https://www.rada.ac.uk/profiles/denholm-elliott/ |title= RADA Student & graduate profiles: Denholm Elliott |work= rada.ac.uk |access-date=11 August 2022}} He was asked to leave after one term. As Elliott later recalled, "They wrote to my mother and said, 'Much as we like the little fellow, he's wasting your money and our time. Take him away!'"BBC Radio. Desert Island Discs, 14 September 1974.

In the Second World War, he joined the Royal Air Force, training as a wireless operator/air gunner and serving with No. 76 Squadron RAF under the command of Leonard Cheshire.{{cite web| title=Encyclopædia Britannica| url=https://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9000778/Denholm-Elliott|access-date=24 September 2007}} On the night of 23/24 September 1942, his Handley Page Halifax DT508[http://www.lostaircraft.com/database.php?mode=viewentry&e=360 Record for Halifax DT508], LostAircraft.com bomber took part in an air raid on the U-boat pens at Flensburg, Germany. The aircraft was hit by flak and subsequently ditched in the North Sea near Sylt, Germany. Elliott and four of his crewmen survived, and he spent the rest of the war in Stalag Luft VIIIb, a prisoner-of-war camp in Lamsdorf (now Łambinowice), Silesia. While imprisoned, he became involved in amateur dramatics. He formed a theatre group that was so successful it toured other POW camps playing Twelfth Night.{{cite book|last= Falconer| first= Jonathon| title=The Bomber Command Handbook 1939–1945|year=1998|publisher=Sutton Publishing|location=Stroud|isbn=978-0-7509-1819-0}}{{cite book|last=Rolfe|first=Mel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rNEcEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT54|title=Flying into Hell: The Bomber Command Offensive as Seen Through the Experiences of Twenty Crews|date=15 July 2008|publisher=Casemate Publishers|isbn=978-1-909166-32-5}}

Career

After making his film debut in Dear Mr. Prohack (1949) Elliott went on to play a wide range of parts, including an officer in The Cruel Sea (1953), and often ineffectual and occasionally seedy characters, including the criminal abortionist in Alfie (1966) and the washed-up film director in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974). Elliott and Natasha Parry played the main roles in the 1955 television play The Apollo of Bellac."Giraudoux Play On Television 'The Apollo Of Bellac'", The Times, 13 August 1955. He took over for an ill Michael Aldridge for one season of The Man in Room 17 (1966).

Elliott made many television appearances, which included plays by Dennis Potter such as Follow the Yellow Brick Road (1972), Brimstone and Treacle, (1976) and Blade on the Feather (1980). He starred in the BBC's adaptation of Charles Dickens's short story The Signalman (1976). He also co-starred with Jack Palance in the Canadian-American television film The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968).

In the 1980s, Elliott won three consecutive British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards for Best Supporting Actor, for playing the butler to Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy in the American comedy film Trading Places (1983), Dr. Swaby in the British comedy film A Private Function (1984), and the drunken journalist Vernon Bayliss in the British political thriller film Defence of the Realm (1986). He received an Academy Award nomination for playing Mr. Emerson in A Room with a View (1985). He also played Dr. Marcus Brody, an academic and friend of Indiana Jones, in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). A photograph of his character appears in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), and a reference is made to Brody's death. A statue was also dedicated to Brody outside Marshall College, the school where Indiana Jones teaches. In 1988 Elliott played the Russian mole Povin, around whom the entire plot revolves, in the television miniseries Codename: Kyril.

Having filmed Michael Winner's The Wicked Lady (1983), Elliott was quoted in a BBC Radio interview as saying that Marc Sinden and he "are the only two British actors I am aware of who have ever worked with Winner more than once, and it certainly wasn't for love. But curiously, I never, ever saw any of the same crew twice." (Elliott in You Must Be Joking! (1965) and The Wicked Lady and Sinden in The Wicked Lady and Decadence). Elliott had worked with Sinden's father, Donald Sinden, in The Cruel Sea.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/8309346/Michael-Winner-The-life-Ive-lived-the-girls-Ive-had...-its-been-incredible.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/8309346/Michael-Winner-The-life-Ive-lived-the-girls-Ive-had...-its-been-incredible.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|work=The Daily Telegraph|last=Woods |first=Judith|title=Michael Winner: 'The life I've lived, the girls I've had... it's been incredible'|date=8 February 2011}}{{cbignore}} He co-starred with Katharine Hepburn and Harold Gould in the television film Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (1986) and with Nicole Kidman in Bangkok Hilton (1989).

In 1988, Elliott was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to acting. His 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. His scene-stealing abilities led Gabriel Byrne, his co-star in Defence of the Realm, to say, "Never act with children, dogs, or Denholm Elliott."{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-denholm-elliott-1555931.html|title=Obituary: Denholm Elliott|work=The Independent|date=7 October 1992}}

Described by the British Film Institute's Screenonline as an actor of "versatile understanding and immaculate technique,"{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/452513/index.html|title=British Film Institute Biography|access-date=24 September 2007}} Elliott described himself as an instinctive actor and was a critic of Stanislavski's system of acting, saying, "I mistrust and am rather bored with actors who are of the Stanislavski school who think about detail."{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-07-mn-473-story.html|last=Oliver|first=Myrna|work=Los Angeles Times|title=Denholm Elliott; Veteran Character Actor|date=7 October 1992|access-date=22 July 2014}}

Personal life and death

Secretly bisexual,{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1549209/Susan-Elliott.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1549209/Susan-Elliott.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Susan Elliott obituary|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=24 April 2007}}{{cbignore}} Elliott was married twice: first to actress Virginia McKenna in 1954, and later in an open marriage to American actress Susan Robinson, with whom he had two children, Mark and Jennifer (b. Manhattan, New York, USA 8 June 1964), the latter of whom died by suicide at her father's home in Santa Eulària des Riu on Ibiza, Spain, in May 2003, after being exposed by the News of the World as a drug-addicted prostitute. Privacy Is For Paedos - Paul McMullan (Yellow Press, London 2023)

Elliott was diagnosed with HIV in 1987 and died of AIDS-related tuberculosis at his home in Santa Eulària des Riu on Ibiza, on 6 October 1992, aged 70. Tributes were paid by actors Donald Sinden and Peter Ustinov, the dramatist Dennis Potter, and Virginia McKenna. Sinden said: "He was one of the finest screen actors and a very special actor at that. He was one of the last stars who was a real gentleman. It is a very sad loss." Ustinov said: "He was a wonderful actor and a very good friend on the occasions that life brought us together." Potter called him "a complicated, sensitive, and slightly disturbing actor" and "a dry, witty, and slightly menacing individual." McKenna added, "It is absolutely dreadful, but the person I am thinking of at the moment more than anybody is his wife. It must be terrible for her."{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/denholm-elliott-dies-from-aidsrelated-tb-aged-70-1556004.html|title=Denholm Elliott dies from AIDS-related TB, aged 70|first=Steve|last=Boggan|work=The Independent|date=7 October 1992}} Ismail Merchant described Elliott as "an all-giving person, full of life ... He had an affection and feeling for other actors, which is very unusual in our business."{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1992/scene/people-news/oscar-nominee-elliott-dies-of-aids-problems-101433|title=Oscar nominee Elliott dies of AIDS problems|work=Variety|date=7 October 1992}}

Elliott's widow set up a charity, the Denholm Elliott Project, and collaborated on his biography.Elliott, Susan; Turner, Barry (1994). Denholm Elliott: Quest for Love. She worked closely with the UK Coalition of People Living with HIV and AIDS. She died on 12 April 2007, aged 65, in a fire in her flat in Hornsey, London.

Filmography

=Film=

Year	Title	Role	Notes
class="wikitable" style="font-size: 100%;"
1949	Dear Mr. Prohack	Oswald Morfrey
rowspan="3"\| 1952 \| The Sound Barrier	Christopher Ridgefield	Breaking the Sound Barrier in USA
The Holly and the Ivy	Michael Gregory
The Ringer	John Lemley
rowspan="2"\| 1953 \| The Cruel Sea	Morell
The Heart of the Matter	Wilson
rowspan="2"\| 1954 \| Lease of Life	Martin Blake
They Who Dare	Sergeant Corcoran
rowspan="2"\| 1955 \| The Man Who Loved Redheads	Denis
The Night My Number Came Up	Mackenzie
1956	Pacific Destiny	Arthur Grimble
1960	Scent of Mystery	Oliver Larker
1963	Station Six-Sahara	Macey
1964	Nothing But the Best	Charlie Prince
rowspan="2"\| 1965 \| The High Bright Sun	Baker
King Rat	Larkin
1966	Alfie	The Abortionist
1967	Maroc 7	Inspector Barrada
rowspan="2"\| 1968 \|The Night They Raided Minsky's	Vance Fowler
The Sea Gull	Dorn, a doctor
rowspan="2"\| 1970 \| Too Late the Hero	Captain Hornsby
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer	Peter Niss
rowspan="3"\| 1971 \| Percy	Emmanuel Whitbread
The House That Dripped Blood	Charles Hillyer	Segment 1: Method for Murder
Quest for Love	Tom Lewis
1972	Madame Sin	Malcolm De Vere
rowspan="2"\| 1973 \| The Vault of Horror	Diltant	Segment 5: Drawn and Quartered
A Doll's House	Krogstad
1974	\| The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	Friar
1975	Russian Roulette	Commander Petapiece
rowspan="4"\| 1976 \| Robin and Marian	Will Scarlet
To the Devil a Daughter	Henry Beddows
Partners	John Grey
Voyage of the Damned	Admiral Canaris
1977	A Bridge Too Far	R.A.F. Met. Officer
rowspan="4"\| 1978 \| The Hound of the Baskervilles	Stapleton
Watership Down	Cowslip	(voice)
The Boys From Brazil	Sidney Beynon
Sweeney 2	Detective Chief Superintendent Jupp
rowspan="3"\| 1979 \| Zulu Dawn	Colonel Pulleine
Saint Jack	William Leigh
Cuba	Donald Skinner
rowspan="3"\| 1980 \| Bad Timing	Stefan Vognic
Rising Damp	Charles Seymour
Sunday Lovers	Parker	Segment: An Englishman's Home
1981	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Dr. Marcus Brody
1982 \|Brimstone and Treacle \|Mr. Tom Bates \| \|
rowspan="2"\| 1983 \| The Wicked Lady	Sir Ralph Skelton
Trading Places	Coleman
rowspan="2"\| 1984 \| The Razor's Edge	Elliott Templeton		{{cite book\|first=Brian \|last=McFarlane\|title=The Encyclopedia of British Film\|date=16 May 2016\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|page=228\|edition=4th\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXnXDQAAQBAJ&q=denholm+elliott+the+razor%27s+edge&pg=PA228\|access-date=12 March 2017\|isbn=9781526111975}}
A Private Function	Dr. Charles Swaby
rowspan="2"\| 1985 \| A Room with a View	Mr. Emerson
Underworld	Dr. Savary
rowspan="2"\| 1986 \| Defence of the Realm	Vernon Bayliss
The Whoopee Boys	Colonel Phelps
rowspan="2"\| 1987 \|September	Howard
Maurice	Dr. Barry
1988	Stealing Heaven	Fulbert
1989	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Dr. Marcus Brody
1989	Killing Dad	Nathy
rowspan="2"\| 1991 \| Toy Soldiers	Headmaster
Scorchers	Howler
1992	Noises Off	Selsdon Mowbray	Final film role

=Television=

class="wikitable" style="font-size: 100%;"
Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes
1958 \| Alfred Hitchcock Presents \| Jack Lyons \| Season 3 Episode 34: "The Crocodile Case"
1959 \| Alfred Hitchcock Presents \| John Manbridge \| Season 4 Episode 21: "Relative Value"
1963 \| Hancock \|Peter Dartford \| 1 episode
1965 \| Danger Man \| Basil Jordan \| Season 3 Episode 18: The Hunting Party
rowspan="2"\|1966 \| The Man in Room 17 \| Defraits \| 13 episodes
Mystery and Imagination \| Roderick Usher \| Episode: The Fall of the House of Usher
1968 \|The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde \| George Devlin \| TV film
1968 \|Mystery and Imagination \| Count Dracula \| Episode: Dracula
rowspan="2"\| 1972 \| The Persuaders! \| Roland \| Episode: A Death in the Family
Follow the Yellow Brick Road \| Jack Black \| TV play
1975 \| Thriller \| Dr. Frank Henson \| Episode: The Crazy Kill
rowspan="3" \| 1976 \| Brimstone and Treacle \| Mr. Tom Bates \| TV play: Play for Today
Clayhanger \| Tertius Ingpen \| 9 episodes
The Signalman \| The Signalman \| TV play
rowspan="1" \| 1977 \| Ripping Yarns \| Mr. Gregory \| Episode: Across The Andes by Frog
1980 \| Hammer House of Horror \| Norman Shenley \| Episode: Rude Awakening
1980 \| Blade on the Feather \| Jack Hill \| TV film
1980 \| Tales of the Unexpected \| Harold \| TV Series, Season 3 ep 7, 'The Stinker'
1982 \| Marco Polo \| Niccolò Polo \| 8 episodes
1983 \|The Hound of the Baskervilles \| Dr. Mortimer \| TV film
1984 \| Camille \| Count de Noilly \| TV film
1985 \| Bleak House \| John Jarndyce \| 7 episodes
1986 \| Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry \| George Parker \| TV film
rowspan="4"\| 1987 \| Hotel du Lac \| Phillip Neville \| TV film
Scoop \| Mr. Salter \| TV film
A Child's Christmas in Wales \| Old Geraint \| TV film
The Happy Valley \| Sir Henry 'Jock' Delves Broughton \| TV film
rowspan="4"\| 1988 \| Codename: Kyril \| Povin \| 4 episodes
{{sortname\|The\|Ray Bradbury Theater}} \| Tom Cotter \| Episode: The Coffin
The Bourne Identity \| Dr Geoffrey Washburn \| TV mini-series
Noble House \| Alastair Struan \| 4 episodes
1989 \| Bangkok Hilton \| Hal Stanton \| 3 episodes
1990 \| A Green Journey \| James O'Hannon \| TV film
rowspan="3"\| 1991 \| A Murder of Quality \| George Smiley \| TV film
One Against the Wind \| Father LeBlanc \| TV film
The Black Candle \| William Filmore \| TV film

class="wikitable" style="font-size: 100%;"

Year

! Title

! Role

! Notes

1958

| Alfred Hitchcock Presents

| Jack Lyons

| Season 3 Episode 34: "The Crocodile Case"

1959

| Alfred Hitchcock Presents

| John Manbridge

| Season 4 Episode 21: "Relative Value"

1963

| Hancock

|Peter Dartford

| 1 episode

1965

| Danger Man

| Basil Jordan

| Season 3 Episode 18: The Hunting Party

rowspan="2"|1966

| The Man in Room 17

| Defraits

| 13 episodes

Mystery and Imagination

| Roderick Usher

| Episode: The Fall of the House of Usher

1968

|The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

| George Devlin

| TV film

1968

|Mystery and Imagination

| Count Dracula

| Episode: Dracula

rowspan="2"| 1972

| The Persuaders!

| Roland

| Episode: A Death in the Family

Follow the Yellow Brick Road

| Jack Black

| TV play

1975

| Thriller

| Dr. Frank Henson

| Episode: The Crazy Kill

rowspan="3" | 1976

| Brimstone and Treacle

| Mr. Tom Bates

| TV play: Play for Today

Clayhanger

| Tertius Ingpen

| 9 episodes

The Signalman

| The Signalman

| TV play

rowspan="1" | 1977

| Ripping Yarns

| Mr. Gregory

| Episode: Across The Andes by Frog

1980

| Hammer House of Horror

| Norman Shenley

| Episode: Rude Awakening

1980

| Blade on the Feather

| Jack Hill

| TV film

1980

| Tales of the Unexpected

| Harold

| TV Series, Season 3 ep 7, 'The Stinker'

1982

| Marco Polo

| Niccolò Polo

| 8 episodes

1983

|The Hound of the Baskervilles

| Dr. Mortimer

| TV film

1984

| Camille

| Count de Noilly

| TV film

1985

| Bleak House

| John Jarndyce

| 7 episodes

1986

| Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry

| George Parker

| TV film

rowspan="4"| 1987

| Hotel du Lac

| Phillip Neville

| TV film

Scoop

| Mr. Salter

| TV film

A Child's Christmas in Wales

| Old Geraint

| TV film

The Happy Valley

| Sir Henry 'Jock' Delves Broughton

| TV film

rowspan="4"| 1988

| Codename: Kyril

| Povin

| 4 episodes

{{sortname|The|Ray Bradbury Theater}}

| Tom Cotter

| Episode: The Coffin

The Bourne Identity

| Dr Geoffrey Washburn

| TV mini-series

Noble House

| Alastair Struan

| 4 episodes

1989

| Bangkok Hilton

| Hal Stanton

| 3 episodes

1990

| A Green Journey

| James O'Hannon

| TV film

rowspan="3"| 1991

| A Murder of Quality

| George Smiley

| TV film

One Against the Wind

| Father LeBlanc

| TV film

The Black Candle

| William Filmore

| TV film

Stage

class="wikitable"

!Year

!Title

!Role(s)

!Notes

!Ref.

1946

|The Guinea Pig

|West End debut

|{{cite web |title=Denholm Elliott |url=https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/Denholm-Elliott/311134 |access-date=17 September 2023 |website=Britannica Kids }}

1950

|Venus Observed

|Edgar

|{{cite book |last=Wearing |first=J. P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5g2PBAAAQBAJ&dq=venus+observed+london+stage+1950-1959&pg=PA2 |title=The London Stage 1950–1959: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel |date=16 September 2014 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-8108-9308-5 }}

1950

|Ring Round the Moon

|Frederic, Hugo

|Broadway debut

|{{cite web |title=Ring Round the Moon (Broadway, Al Hirschfeld Theatre, 1950) |url=https://playbill.com/production/ring-round-the-moon-martin-beck-theatre-vault-0000008283 |access-date=17 September 2023 |website=Playbill}}

1951

|The Green Bay Tree

|Julian

|{{cite web |title=The Green Bay Tree – Broadway Play – 1951 Revival {{!}} IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-green-bay-tree-1911#OpeningNightCast |access-date=17 September 2023 |website=www.ibdb.com}}

1951

|A Sleep of Prisoners

|{{cite web |title=Actors Leonard White, Denholm Elliott and Stanley Baker during... |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/actors-leonard-white-denholm-elliott-and-stanley-baker-news-photo/551441881 |access-date=17 September 2023 |website=Getty Images |date=27 April 2015 }}

1953

|The Confidential Clerk

|{{cite web |title=BFI Screenonline: Elliott, Denholm (1922–1992) Biography |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/452513/index.html |access-date=17 September 2023 |website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}

1957

|Monique

|Fernand Ravinel

|{{cite web |title=Monique (Broadway, John Golden Theatre, 1957) |url=https://playbill.com/productions/monique-john-golden-theatre-vault-0000008458 |access-date=17 September 2023 |website=Playbill}}{{cite magazine |date=4 November 1957 |title=The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 4, 1957 |magazine=Time |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,867897-2,00.html |access-date=17 September 2023 |issn=0040-781X}}

1958

|Traveller Without Luggage

|{{cite web |title=Image of TRAVELLER WITHOUT LUGGAGE, Elizabeth Sellars, Denholm Elliott, The Arts Theater |url=https://www.bridgemanimages.com/en/noartistknown/traveller-without-luggage-elizabeth-sellars-denholm-elliott-the-arts-theater-club-1958/photo/asset/5807634 |access-date=17 September 2023 |website=www.bridgemanimages.com }}

1960

|The Merchant of Venice

|Bassanio

|{{cite web |title=Search {{!}} RSC Performances {{!}} MER196004 – The Merchant of Venice {{!}} Shakespeare Birthplace Trust |url=https://collections.shakespeare.org.uk/search/rsc-performances/mer196004/search/rsc_person:elliott-denholm-mitchell/page/1/view_as/grid |access-date=17 September 2023 |website=collections.shakespeare.org.uk}}

1960

|The Two Gentlemen of Verona

|Valentine

|{{cite web |title=Search {{!}} RSC Performances {{!}} TWO196004 – The Two Gentlemen of Verona {{!}} Shakespeare Birthplace Trust |url=https://collections.shakespeare.org.uk/search/rsc-performances/two196004 |access-date=17 September 2023 |website=collections.shakespeare.org.uk}}

1960

|Troilus and Cressida

|Troilus

|{{cite web |title=Troilus and Cressida timeline {{!}} Royal Shakespeare Company |url=https://www.rsc.org.uk/troilus-and-cressida/past-productions/troilus-and-cressida-timeline |access-date=17 September 2023 |website=www.rsc.org.uk }}

1961

|Write Me a Murder

|The Hon. Clive Rodingham

|{{cite web |title=Write Me a Murder – Broadway Play – Original {{!}} IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/write-me-a-murder-2892#OpeningNightCast |access-date=17 September 2023 |website=www.ibdb.com}}

1964

|The Seagull

|Trigorin

|{{cite web |title=The Seagull – Broadway Play – 1964 Revival {{!}} IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-seagull-3059#OpeningNightCast |access-date=17 September 2023 |website=www.ibdb.com}}

1964

|The Crucible

|Reverend John Hale

|{{cite web |title=The Crucible – Broadway Play – 1964 Revival {{!}} IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-crucible-3060#OpeningNightCast |access-date=17 September 2023 |website=www.ibdb.com}}

1967

|The Imaginary Invalid

|Dr. Diaforus

|{{cite web |title=The Imaginary Invalid – Broadway Play – 1967 Revival {{!}} IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-imaginary-invalid-2941#OpeningNightCast |access-date=17 September 2023 |website=www.ibdb.com}}

1967

|A Touch of the Poet

|Cornelius Melody

|{{cite web |title=A Touch of the Poet – Broadway Play – 1967 Revival {{!}} IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/a-touch-of-the-poet-2942#OpeningNightCast |access-date=17 September 2023 |website=www.ibdb.com}}

1967

|Tonight at 8.30

|Alec Harvey

|{{cite web |title=Tonight at 8:30 – Broadway Play – 1967 Revival {{!}} IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/tonight-at-830-2943#OpeningNightCast |access-date=17 September 2023 |website=www.ibdb.com}}

1970

|Come As You Are

|{{cite web |title=Theater: 'Come as You Are,' Comic Report on Sex |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/03/28/specials/mortimer-come.html |access-date=17 September 2023 |website=archive.nytimes.com}}

1975

|The Return of A. J. Raffles

|A. J. Raffles

|{{cite web |title=Search {{!}} RSC Performances {{!}} RET197512 – The Return of A J Raffles {{!}} Shakespeare Birthplace Trust |url=https://collections.shakespeare.org.uk/search/rsc-performances/ret197512/search/rsc_person:elliott-denholm-mitchell/page/1/view_as/grid |access-date=17 September 2023 |website=collections.shakespeare.org.uk}}

1977

|The New York Idea

|{{cite news |last=Crossette |first=Barbara |date=18 March 1977 |title='New York Idea' Revived in Brooklyn |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/03/18/archives/new-jersey-weekly-new-york-idea-revived-in-brooklyn.html |access-date=17 September 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}

1977

|Three Sisters

|{{cite web |title=BAM Archive |url=https://levyarchive.bam.org/Detail/occurrences/705 |access-date=17 September 2023 |website=levyarchive.bam.org}}

1989

|A Life in the Theatre

|Robert

|{{cite news |date=2 November 1989 |title=Billington On A Life In The Theatre |pages=30 |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-guardian-billington-on-a-life-in-the/66119696/ |access-date=17 September 2023}}

Awards and nominations

Year ! Award ! Category ! Nomination ! Result
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1986	Academy Awards	Best Supporting Actor	A Room with a View	{{nom}}
1973	rowspan=7\|British Academy Film Awards	rowspan=7\|Best Supporting Actor	A Doll's House	{{nom}}
1979	Saint Jack	{{nom}}
1981	Raiders of the Lost Ark	{{nom}}
1983	Trading Places	{{won}}
1984	A Private Function	{{won}}
1985	Defence of the Realm	{{won}}
1986	A Room with a View	{{nom}}
1981	rowspan="2" \|British Academy Television Awards	rowspan="2" \| Best Actor	BBC2 Playhouse: Gentlefolk & In Hiding Blade on the Feather Tales of the Unexpected: The Stinker \| {{won}}
1986	Screen Two: Hotel du Lac	{{nom}}

Notes

References

External links

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[https://web.archive.org/web/20220501000000/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba0918428 Denholm Elliott] at the British Film Institute
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[http://www.bris.ac.uk/theatrecollection/search/people_sub_plays?forename=Denholm&surname=ELLIOTT&job=Actor&pid=4444&image_view=Yes&x=19&y=17 Performances in the Theatre Archive University of Bristol]

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