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" – as well as an Academy Award nomination for "A Room with a View". He also became familiar to a wider audience as the well-meaning but addlepated Dr. Marcus Brody in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981) and "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". A photograph of his character appears in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and a reference is made to Brody's death. In 1988, Elliott played the Russian mole Povin in the television miniseries "".