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Upon graduating from drama school Elphick was offered roles primarily as menacing heavies.
He made his debut in Fraulein Doktor ( an Italian-made First World War film circa 1968 ).
He went on to play the Captain in Tony Richardson's version of Hamlet ( 1969 ); landed parts in cult films such as The First Great Train Robbery and The Elephant Man and appeared in Lindsay Anderson's allegorical O Lucky Man!
( 1973 ).
In 1983 he played the role of Pasha in the film Gorky Park, for which he received a 1985 Best Supporting Actor BAFTA Award nomination.
He was also seen as Phil Daniels's father in the cult film Quadrophenia ( 1979 ) and as the poacher, Jake, in Withnail & I ( 1987 ).
In 1984 he played the lead, Fisher, a British Detective recalling under hypnosis a dystopian, crumbling Europe and his hunt for a serial killer in Lars von Trier's Palme D ' Or nominated debut film, The Element of Crime.
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