Denholm Elliott

Denholm Elliott

May 31, 1922 · 104 years old

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 1980s, he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in three consecutive years.

Known For

39 titles
1
Raiders of the Lost Ark

Raiders of the Lost Ark

1981 · 1h 55m · Movie

In 1936, archaeologist Indiana Jones is tasked by Army Intelligence to help locate a legendary ancient power, the Ark of Covenant, before the Nazis get it first.

8.4
2
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

1989 · 2h 7m · Movie

In 1938, after his father goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Indiana Jones finds himself up against the Nazis again to stop them from obtaining its powers.

8.2
3
Trading Places

Trading Places

1983 · 1h 56m · Movie

A snobbish Wall Street commodities broker and a wily street hustler find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaire brothers who run a brokerage house.

7.5
4
A Room with a View

A Room with a View

1986 · 1h 57m · Movie

Lucy Honeychurch shares a brief romance with George Emerson in Florence. Yet as she tries to move on with her life and look for marriage elsewhere, can she truly forget the events of that summer?

7.2
5
Watership Down

Watership Down

1978 · 1h 32m · Movie

Hoping to escape destruction by human developers and save their community, a colony of rabbits, led by Hazel and Fiver, seek out a safe place to set up a new warren.

7.5
6
The Boys from Brazil

The Boys from Brazil

1978 · 2h 5m · Movie

A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

7.0
7
Toy Soldiers

Toy Soldiers

1991 · 1h 51m · Movie

A group of troublemaking boys decide to take a stand when terrorists seize control of their boarding school.

6.6
8
Maurice

Maurice

1987 · 2h 20m · Movie

Two English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekee...

7.6
9
Alfie

Alfie

1966 · 1h 54m · Movie

Unrepentant ladies' man Alfie Elkins gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle in 1960s London.

7.0
10
Robin and Marian

Robin and Marian

1976 · 1h 46m · Movie

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

6.5
11
Noises Off...

Noises Off...

1992 · 1h 41m · Movie

A traveling theater group find so much action going on behind the scenes that they almost ruin the performances.

7.4
12
September

September

1987 · 1h 23m · Movie

At a summer house in Vermont, neighbor Howard falls in love with Lane, who's in a relationship with Peter, who's falling for Stephanie, who's married with children.

6.5
13
Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession

Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession

1980 · 2h 3m · Movie

When a married American woman ends up in a Vienna hospital after a suicide attempt, an inspector seeks to uncover the cause and eventual demise of her torrid affair with a psychoanalyst.

6.9
14
The House That Dripped Blood

The House That Dripped Blood

1971 · 1h 42m · Movie

An anthology of four horror stories revolving around a mysterious rental house in the U.K.

6.5
15
The Vault of Horror

The Vault of Horror

1973 · 1h 27m · Movie

An anthology of five horror stories shared by five men trapped in the basement of an office building.

6.5
16
The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge

1984 · 2h 8m · Movie

He had everything and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted everything. He saved the world and then it shattered. The path to enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor's edge.

6.4
17
The Cruel Sea

The Cruel Sea

1953 · 2h 6m · Movie

The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.

7.4
18
King Rat

King Rat

1965 · 2h 14m · Movie

Fast-talking wheeler-dealer Corporal King is stuck in a Malaysian P.O.W. camp during World War II and uses bribery and larceny to take de-facto control of the camp.

7.5
19
To the Devil a Daughter

To the Devil a Daughter

1976 · 1h 35m · Movie

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 as the representative of the Devil on Earth.

5.8
20
Too Late the Hero

Too Late the Hero

1970 · 2h 25m · Movie

A reluctant hero, American Lieutenant Sam Lawson, is seconded to a motley British unit tasked with destroying a Japanese radio on a Philippine island.

6.6
21
A Private Function

A Private Function

1984 · 1h 32m · Movie

In post-World War II Britain, food rationing continues, leading a married couple to become involved in the flourishing bacon black market.

6.5
22
The Missionary

The Missionary

1982 · 1h 30m · Movie

In the early 20th century, devout Reverend Charles Fortescue returns to England from his missionary work in Africa and, despite plans to marry his childhood sweetheart, receives a most unusual assignment: minister to the local pro...

6.2
23
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

1974 · 2h 0m · Movie

In a bid to gain respect, the neglected younger son of a working class Jewish family in Montréal embarks on a series of get-rich-quick schemes to buy land surrounding a lake.

6.7
24
The Sound Barrier

The Sound Barrier

1952 · 1h 49m · Movie

Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.

6.7
25
The Night They Raided Minsky's

The Night They Raided Minsky's

1968 · 1h 39m · Movie

A naive young Amish woman runs away from her home in Pennsylvania to New York City, where she hopes to act in religious stage plays but ends up performing in Burlesque theatre.

6.0
26
The Wicked Lady

The Wicked Lady

1983 · 1h 38m · Movie

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, but despite her new wealthy situation, she gets bored and turns to highway robbe...

4.8
27
The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1978 · 1h 18m · Movie

A Sherlock Holmes spoof about a family that has been haunted for years by the curse of a horrible hound.

4.5
28
Underworld

Underworld

1985 · 1h 43m · Movie

When high class hooker Nicole is kidnapped from her brothel, Rich businessman Hugo Motherskille hires her ex love Roy Bain to find her.

4.0
29
Rising Damp

Rising Damp

1980 · 1h 38m · Movie

Landlord Rigsby scams lodgers Cooper and Philip into sharing a room. His favorite tenant, Miss Jones, flirts with Philip, annoying Rigsby. When new lodger Seymour arrives, Miss Jones falls for him, leaving Rigsby's love for her un...

6.3
30
Sweeney 2

Sweeney 2

1978 · 1h 49m · Movie

Second theatrical spin-off from the popular 1970's police series. Regan and Carter head a Flying Squad investigation into a series of bank raids by a team of well-armed villains who are flying in from the continent.

6.6
31
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

1968 · 1h 36m · Movie

A high-school dropout, obsessed with sex, is determined to lose his virginity.

6.2
32
They Who Dare

They Who Dare

1954 · 1h 47m · Movie

During World War II, British commandos are sent to destroy a Luftwaffe airfield on a Greek island.

5.5
33
Scorchers

Scorchers

1991 · 1h 21m · Movie

On Splendid's wedding night, she won't allow her husband to consummate the marriage. Meanwhile, her armed cousin is looking for the hooker, who slept with her husband.

5.5
34
Camille

Camille

1984 · 1h 40m · Movie

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 hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lov...

6.2
35
Nothing But the Best

Nothing But the Best

1964 · 1h 39m · Movie

A young and ambitious businessman hires an unemployed upper-class man to tutor him in the life skills which he thinks are necessary to succeed. When he succeeds, disaster threatens.

6.6
36
You Must Be Joking!

You Must Be Joking!

1965 · 1h 40m · Movie

A motley group of soldiers are set loose in swinging London in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items.

5.9