The Boys from Brazil features people who lived in the 20th century.
Denholm Mitchell Elliott , CBE ( 31 May 1922 -- 6 October 1992 ) was an English film , television and theatre actor with more than 120 film and television credits . Eldred Gregory Peck ( April 5 , 1916 -- June 12 , 2003 ) was an American actor who was one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s . James Neville Mason ( [ meɪsɒn ] 15 May 1909 -- 27 July 1984 ) was an English actor . The Boys from Brazil (film) . It stars Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier and features James Mason , Lilli Palmer , Uta Hagen , Denholm Elliott , and Steve Guttenberg in supporting roles .