Marcus Brody is a fictional character appearing in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. He is played by Denholm Elliot. Raiders of the Lost Ark, also known as Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, is a film released by Paramount Pictures in 1981. ... Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Julian Glover, Alison Doody, River Phoenix and John Rhys-Davies. ...

Marcus is introduced as a colleaque of Indiana Jones at the unnamed college where they both teach. His role in this film is rather brief, but he appears to be a mentor/father figure to Indy. He introduces Indy to the government agents who explain the Nazi campagin to retrieve the Ark of the Covenant, and later informs him that the government wants him to beat them to it. He negotiates the agreement that the Ark, upon its delivery to the United States, will be placed in a museum--probably his own. He shares Indy's frustration when the agents confiscate the Ark, refusing to give it to the museum or even disclose its whereabouts. Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones Indiana Jones is a fictional bullwhip-toting, fedora-wearing archaeologist with an overdeveloped ophidiophobia (fear of snakes). ...

His role is much larger, though played more for comic relief, in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Rather than stay behind at the university, he travels with Indy to Venice when they learn that Indy's father has been kidnapped. After Indy learns his father's location, and sets out to rescue him, he dispatches Marcus to make contact with his friend Sallah. He ends up being captured by the Nazis himself, while still in possession of Henry Jones Sr.'s Grail diary, which the Nazis need to find the Holy Grail. In the city of Iskenderun, Jones, his father, and Sallah engage the Nazis in battle, successfully rescuing Brody, but failing to prevent them from reaching the Grail temple. The foursome follow the Nazis there, where they are all captured by the Nazis. Their American cohort and project leader, Walter Donovan, shoots the elder Jones to force Indy to retrieve the Grail, using only his father's diary as a guide. He is ultimately successful, and uses water from the Grail to heal his father's bulletwound. The four of them are forced to leave the Grail itself behind when they leave the temple. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Julian Glover, Alison Doody, River Phoenix and John Rhys-Davies. ... Location within Italy Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venessia in the local dialect), the city of canals, is the capital of the region of Veneto and of the province of Venice, 45°26′N 12°19′E, population 271,663 (census estimate 2004-01-01). ... This article refers to the Christian artifact. ... İskenderun, formerly known in the west as Alexandretta or previously as Scanderoon (Arabic الإسكندرون al-ʼIskandarūn), is a city in the Turkish province of Hatay. ...

In the first film, Brody is portrayed as a wise, intelligent colleague of Indy's. Though most of this remains in the sequel, he is less of a father figure now that Indy's real father becomes a central character, and more of a comical once. He is shown being unable to navigate in a foreign country when he doesn't speak the language, is comically kidnapped by Nazis, and at one point we are told that he "got lost in his own museum."