Cyril Cusack

His sons, Paul and Pádraig, work as a producer with RTÉ and in computers, respectively. He died of AIDS which he contracted after a transfusion of infected blood. His four daughters, Niamh, Sorcha, Sinéad and Catherine are actresses. Elliott was married twice (the first time to the British actress, Virginia McKenna) and had children, (although he was strongly suspected being gay - a fact that remains unproven - though he was most likely bisexual). Cusack's last stage performance was in Chekhov's The Three Sisters, in which three of his daughters played the sisters. In 1988, Elliott was awarded the CBE for his services to acting. In 1989 his performance in the film My Left Foot, with Daniel Day-Lewis, contributed to its success. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his supporting role in the last.

In 1984 he appeared as the shop-keeper and Thought Police spy Charrington in the film version of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. He appeared in films as diverse as Alfie, Trading Places, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Brimstone and Treacle, A Room with a View (1986) and Maurice. He received honorary doctorates in 1977 and 1980 from the NUI and the University of Dublin respectively. He went on to play a large range of parts, generally specialising in the "typical" English gentleman. Two years later in 1979 he married Mary Rose Cunningham. Elliott was born in London and made his film debut in 1949. In 1977 Cusack's wife, Maureen Kiely, an actress, died. Denholm Mitchell Elliott (May 31, 1922 - October 6, 1992) was a distinguished British actor, well known for his stage, film and television appearances on both sides of the Atlantic.

By this stage he had established a successful career in films. In 1963 he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in London and appeared there for several seasons. In 1947 Cusack formed his own company and staged productions in Dublin, Paris and New York City. Between then and 1945 he performed in over sixty productions, particularly excelling in the plays of Sean O'Casey.

He left without a degree and joined the Abbey Theatre in 1932. Cusack was educated in Newbridge, Kildare, and University College, Dublin. Cyril made his first stage performance at the age of seven. Cusack's mother and her partner, Breifne O'Rorke, joined the O'Brien and Ireland Players.

His parents separated when he was young and his mother took him to England, and then to Ireland. He was the son of a sergeant in the mounted police and an actress. Cyril Cusack (26 November 1910 - 7 October 1993) was an Irish actor, born in Natal, South Africa.