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Denholm Mitchell Elliott 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), [a] and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Mr. Emerson in A ...
Noises Off is a 1992 American comedy film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, [1] with a screenplay by Marty Kaplan based on the 1982 play by Michael Frayn. [2] Its ensemble cast includes Michael Caine, Carol Burnett, Christopher Reeve, John Ritter, Marilu Henner, Nicollette Sheridan, Julie Hagerty and Mark Linn-Baker, [1] as well as featuring the last performance of Denholm Elliott, who died in ...
Defence of the Realm is a 1986 British political thriller film directed by David Drury, starring Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, and Denholm Elliott, with Robbie Coltrane in a minor role. The film takes its title from the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 , passed in the United Kingdom at the start of the First World War , which gave the government ...
The story was adapted as The Signalman by Andrew Davies and broadcast as the BBC's Ghost Story for Christmas for 1976, with Denholm Elliott playing the principal character. This production was filmed on the Severn Valley Railway ; a fake signal box was erected in the cutting on the Kidderminster side of Bewdley Tunnel, and the interiors were ...
Both versions also star Denholm Elliott. The play features a middle-aged middle-class couple living in a north London suburb whose life has been catastrophically affected by a hit-and-run accident which has left their beautiful undergraduate daughter totally dependent upon them. Their lives are dramatically changed by the arrival of a ...
Cast: Denholm Elliott, Hugo Weaving, Joy Smithers. Rating: NR. As Kat Stanton sets out to find her father, she meets a charming man named Arkie. But when she tries to head to Australia, she ...
Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver, died on Thursday. She was 95. Plowright was a prominent actress of stage and screen in ...
Scent of Mystery is a 1960 American mystery film directed by Jack Cardiff and starring Denholm Elliot and Peter Lorre. [4] It was the first film to use the Smell-O-Vision system to release odors at points in the film's plot, and the first film in which aromas were integral to the story, providing important details to the audience.