Denholm Elliott played Marcus Brody, a curator of antiquities, in the first and final parts of the Indiana Jones trilogy. Or as his character has been affectionately described as ...Indiana's bumbling colleague.... Elliott's role was relatively small in the first instalment so he was pleased that his character developed and became a comic linch-pin in the Last Crusade. He commented on the role saying I love comedy, life is too boring and sad without it. . Elliott returned after Spielberg sought to recapture the more light-hearted tone of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), in comparison to the darker Temple of Doom (1984) which Elliott was absent from.