Denholm Elliott
Denholm Elliott
Denholm Mitchell Elliott, CBEwas an English film, television and theatre actor with more than 120 film and television credits. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. In the 1980s, he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in three consecutive years, the only actor ever to have achieved this. He is perhaps best known for portraying Dr Marcus Brody in Raiders of the Lost Arkand Indiana Jones and the Last Crusadeand as...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth31 May 1922
given lines minor parts people seem supporting
I'm often given parts that aren't as big as they are colorful, but people remember them. When it's a minor or supporting role, you learn to make the most of what you're given. I can make two lines seem like 'Hamlet'.
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I think you can be terribly overexposed. I've been always very careful in my career to do theatre; it takes you out of the television eye, and people are glad to see you back again.
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I like films better than the theater because you have to spend so much energy projecting your voice from the stage in the sheer effort to be heard.
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Surprise yourself every day with your own courage.
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When it's a minor or supporting role, you learn to make the most of what you're given. I can make two lines seem like Hamlet.
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The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.