News about Denholm Elliott

Even in the most bitterly divided of families, death tends to bring people back together. Hostilities are suspended and sorrows shared. When the 8th Marquess of Ailesbury was laid to rest in June, the atmosphere at St Katharine's church, deep in Wiltshire's Forest, the ancient woodland of which his family have been custodians for centuries, crackled with tension. For the holder of such a distinguished aristocratic title, Michael Brudenell-Bruce was a diffident and modest figure. Although naturally proud that he could trace his forebears back to the royalist cause in the English Civil War, in recent years he often liked to style himself simply 'Mr Bruce'. None of his three marriages had brought him lasting happiness and he was estranged from some of his children. But for almost four decades he shared his life with a woman to whom he was devoted. Teresa Marshall de Paoli, a vivacious former fashion model, believed she made him happy and steadfastly looked after him as dementia began erasing his other interests and clouding his memory.

BRIAN VINER: If I compiled my list again today, I still wouldn't have space for The Italian Job, Forrest Gump, The Great Escape, or Titanic, which all of which encouraged readers to write in. By the way, that doesn't mean I don't like or even love those photos (although not Titanic), which makes me wish the iceberg would strike a bit sooner). Here is a list of the Top 20 movies you should have included in my Top 100 list, as well as your reasons for... The Shawshank Redemption (left), Mary Poppins (right), and Saving Private Ryan (inset).