Much-loved character actor who specialised in playing slightly sleazy/slightly eccentric and often flawed upper middle class English gentlemen. His career spanned nearly 40 years, becoming a well-known face both in Britain and in the States.


Served in the RAF during WWII. His plane was shot down over Germany in 1942 and he spent the rest of the War in Stalag 8B POW camp in Silesia. Lost the top of his right thumb in a childhood accident. Performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Best known to movie audiences as the bumbling Marcus Brody in the Indiana Jones series. He appeared in both Raiders Of The Lost Ark and Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade. Some sources state that he acquired the AIDS virus from a blood transfusion. However, his widow Susan documented their open marriage and her husband's bisexuality in her book "Denholm Elliott: Quest for Love", published two years after his death. Father was Myles Layman Elliott and mother Nina Mitchell. Has a son named Mark.