Denholm Elliott was the first husband of Virginia McKenna.
Denholm Mitchell Elliott, CBE was an English actor.
He was born on May 31, 1922 in Kensington, London, England, United Kingdom to Myles Laymen Farr Elliott and Nina Mitchell.
Elliott attended Malvern College and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London.
He then served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. His plane was shot down over Germany in 1942 and he spent the rest of the War in Stalag 8B Prisoner of War camp in Silesia.
Elliott made his film debut in Dear Mr. Prohack (1949).
He went on to star in over 100 films including A Room with a View (1985), Trading Places (1983), Lost Ark (1981) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Alfie (1966), and many more.
In the 1980s he won three consecutive British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards: Best Supporting Actor for Trading Places as Dan Aykroyd’s kindly butler, A Private Function, and Defence of the Realm. He received an Academy Award nomination for A Room with a View.
Elliott was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1988 Queen’s New Year Honours List for his services to Drama.
Denholm Elliott married Virginia McKenna on March 1, 1954.
However, the pair divorced on June 18, 1957.
Following his divorce from Virginia, he married Susan Robinson Elliott with whom he had two children, Mark and Jennifer.
Elliott was diagnosed with HIV in 1987 and died of AIDS-related tuberculosis at his home in Santa Eulària des Riu in Ibiza, Spain, on October 6, 1992 at the age of 70.