Bill Elliott
Age: 61 | From: Pattonsburg, Missouri, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1904-10-16 03:54:22
Death: 1965-11-26 03:54:22
Aliases: Wild Bill Elliott , Gordon Nance , Gordon Eliott , 'Wild' Bill Elliot , Gordon Elliott , William 'Wild Bill' Elliott , William Elliott
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Pattonsburg, Missouri, USA
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Movie Involvements: 144
TV Involvements: 1
Most Famous Work
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wild Bill Elliott (October 16, 1904 – November 26, 1965) was an American film actor. He specialized in playing the rugged heroes of B Westerns, particularly the Red Ryder series of films. By 1925, he was getting occasional extra work in films. He took classes at the Pasadena Playhouse and appeared in a few stage roles there. By 1927, he had made his first Western, The Arizona Wildcat, playing his first featured role. Several co-starring roles followed, and he renamed himself Gordon Elliott. But as the studios made the transition to sound films, he slipped back into roles as an extra and bit parts, as in Broadway Scandals, in 1929. For the next eight years, he appeared in over a hundred films for various studios, but almost always in unbilled parts as an extra. Elliott began to be noticed in some minor B Westerns, enough so that Columbia Pictures offered him the title role in a serial, The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1938). The serial was so successful, and Elliott so personable, that Columbia promoted him to starring in his own series of Western features, replacing Columbia's number-two cowboy star Robert "Tex" Allen. Henceforth Gordon Elliott would be known as Bill Elliott. Within two years, he was among the Motion Picture Herald's Top Ten Western Stars, where he would remain for the next 15 years. In 1943, Elliott signed with Republic Pictures, which cast him in a series of Westerns alongside George "Gabby" Hayes. The first of these, Calling Wild Bill Elliott, gave Elliott the name by which he would be best known and by which he would be billed almost exclusively for the rest of his career. Following several films in which both actor and character shared the name Wild Bill Elliott, he took the role for which he would be best remembered, that of Red Ryder in a series of sixteen movies about the famous comic strip cowboy and his young Indian companion, Little Beaver (played in Elliott's films by Bobby Blake). Elliott played the role for only two years but would forever be associated with it. Elliott's trademark was a pair of six guns worn butt-forward in their holsters. Elliott's career thrived during and after the Red Ryder films, and he continued making B Westerns into the early 1950s. He also had his own radio show during the late 1940s. His final contract as a Western star was with Monogram Pictures, where budgets declined as the B Western lost its audience to television. When Monogram became Allied Artists Pictures Corporation in 1953, it phased out its Western productions, and Elliott finished out his contract playing a homicide detective in a series of five modern police dramas, his first non-Westerns since 1938. Elliott retired from films (except for a couple of TV Western pilots which were not picked up). He worked for a time as a spokesman for Viceroy cigarettes and hosted a local TV program in Las Vegas, Nevada, which featured many of his Western films.
Most Famous Work
Adam-12
(1968) Officer Grant
Scarface
(1932) Man Outside Theatre (uncredited)
The Mummy
(1932) Party Guest (uncredited)
The Roaring Twenties
(1939) Bootlegger (uncredited)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
(1925) Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
'G' Men
(1935) Bootlegger Who Gives Eddie the Bottle Outside the Club (uncredited)
Bullets or Ballots
(1936) Hunter - Bank Worker (uncredited)
The Rich Are Always with Us
(1932) Gambler (uncredited)Acting
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | (archive footage) | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 1975 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1968 | Officer Grant | |
| 1957 | Andy Doyle | |
| Andy Doyle | ||
| 1956 | Andy Doyle | |
| 1955 | Andy Doyle | |
| Andy Flynn / Andy Doyle | ||
| 1954 | Sam Nelson | |
| Clay Tyndall (as Wild Bill Elliott) | ||
| 1953 | Tack Hamlin | |
| Jim Levering | ||
| Frank Graham | ||
| Mace Corbin | ||
| 1952 | Pete Devlin | |
| Bill Martin | ||
| Joe Daniels (as Wild Bill Elliott) | ||
| Matt Boone (as Wild Bill Elliott) | ||
| 1951 | Jim Kirk | |
| 1950 | Shadrach Jones | |
| Ringo | ||
| Wild Bill Elliott | ||
| 1949 | Zeb Smith | |
| Frank Norris / Frank Plummer (as William Elliott) | ||
| 1948 | Gary Conway | |
| Bill Stockton (as William Elliott) | ||
| 1947 | Josie Allen | |
| Charles Alderson | ||
| 1946 | Sam Colton | |
| Red Ryder | ||
| Johnny Barrett / Spanish Jack | ||
| Red Ryder | ||
| Red Ryder (as Wild Bill Elliott) | ||
| Red Ryder | ||
| 1945 | Red Ryder (as Wild Bill Elliott) | |
| Red Ryder (as Wild Bill Elliott) | ||
| Red Ryder | ||
| Red Ryder (as Wild Bill Elliott) | ||
| Wild Bill Elliott | ||
| Red Ryder | ||
| Red Ryder | ||
| 1944 | Red Ryder (as Wild Bill Elliott) | |
| Red Ryder | ||
| Red Ryder (as Wild Bill Elliott) | ||
| Red Ryder (as Wild Bill Elliott) | ||
| Red Ryder | ||
| Red Ryder | ||
| Bill Elliott | ||
| Wild Bill Elliott (as Wild Bill Elliott) | ||
| 1943 | Marshal Wild Bill Elliott (as Wild Bill Elliott) | |
| Wild Bill Elliott | ||
| Wild Bill Elliott | ||
| Wild Bill Elliott | ||
| Wild Bill Elliott | ||
| Wild Bill Elliott | ||
| 1942 | Wild Bill Tolliver | |
| Joaquin Murietta aka The Black Shadow | ||
| 'Wild' Bill Hickok | ||
| 'Wild' Bill Hickok | ||
| Sergeant Bill Cameron | ||
| 'Wild' Bill Hickok / Prince Katey | ||
| 'Wild' Bill Hickok | ||
| 1941 | 'Wild' Bill Hickok | |
| 'Wild' Bill Hickok | ||
| Dave Crockett | ||
| 'Wild' Bill Hickok | ||
| Bluey | ||
| Wild Bill Boone | ||
| 'Wild' Bill Hickok | ||
| 'Wild' Bill Hickok | ||
| 1940 | 'Wild' Bill Hickok | |
| 'Wild' Bill Hickok | ||
| 'Wild' Bill Hickok | ||
| Wild Bill Saunders | ||
| Wild Bill Saunders | ||
| Wild Bill Saunders | ||
| 1939 | Wild Bill Saunders | |
| Bootlegger (uncredited) | ||
| Kit Carson | ||
| John Freeman | ||
| 1938 | Backgammon Man (uncredited) | |
| 'Wild' Bill Hickok | ||
| Chauncey Courtland | ||
| Dr. Allan | ||
| 1937 | Bill Parker | |
| Odie Fenton | ||
| Jim Neale | ||
| Bruce Thomas | ||
| Lulu's Bathing Companion (uncredited) | ||
| Little Lord Fauntleroy (uncredited) | ||
| Walter Wilson | ||
| Randall | ||
| City Attorney Seabrook | ||
| 1936 | Wellman, a Dude | |
| 2nd Radio Announcer | ||
| Ramon Duval | ||
| Don Trumbeau | ||
| Sam Laxter | ||
| Robert Bates | ||
| Jefferson Duane | ||
| Pilot (uncredited) | ||
| News Commentator (uncredited) | ||
| Carl Griffin | ||
| Sharp, Board of Directors Member (uncredited) | ||
| Dave Thatcher (as Gordon Elliott) | ||
| Hunter - Bank Worker (uncredited) | ||
| Kenneth Martin | ||
| 1935 | N/A | |
| Charlie Fagan | ||
| Playboy in 'Playboy of Paree' Number (uncredited) | ||
| Minor Role | ||
| Jeff Holt | ||
| Warren Sherrill | ||
| Tom Collins - Greer's Associate | ||
| Teddy | ||
| Reporter (uncredited) | ||
| Backstage Actor | ||
| Reporter | ||
| James, Clerk at College Club | ||
| Bootlegger Who Gives Eddie the Bottle Outside the Club (uncredited) | ||
| Jackson's Secretary / Dorothy's Dance Partner | ||
| Freddie | ||
| Vincent's Assistant (uncredited) | ||
| Bank Teller (uncredited) | ||
| Stuart Wyatt | ||
| Wedding Guest | ||
| Maxine's Casino Escort (uncredited) | ||
| 1934 | Governor's Secretary (uncredited) | |
| Lt. Saunders | ||
| Polo Match Spectator (uncredited) | ||
| Reporter in Courtroom (uncredited) | ||
| Party Guest | ||
| Dancer (uncredited) | ||
| Nightclub Patron (uncredited) | ||
| Male Nurse | ||
| Norman (uncredited) | ||
| 1933 | New Year's Eve Reveler (Uncredited) | |
| Audience Member / Dexter's Party Guest | ||
| Bicyclist (uncredited) | ||
| Party Guest (uncredited) | ||
| Man at Roulette Table (Uncredited) | ||
| Night Club Patron (uncredited) | ||
| Guest at Polly's Party (uncredited) | ||
| Partygoer (uncredited) | ||
| 1932 | Escort (uncredited) | |
| Polo Player (uncredited) | ||
| Policeman Following Blonde (uncredited) | ||
| Ship's Passenger / Dance Extra (uncredited) | ||
| Party Guest (uncredited) | ||
| Gambler (uncredited) | ||
| Man Outside Theatre (uncredited) | ||
| Party Guest (uncredited) | ||
| Bit Role | ||
| Alex Brown (Uncredited) | ||
| Wedding Guest (uncredited) | ||
| Party Guest (uncredited) | ||
| 1931 | Larry's Friend | |
| Dance Extra / Lobby Extra | ||
| Escort (uncredited) | ||
| Party Boy | ||
| Nightclub Patron (uncredited) | ||
| Hotel Dining Room Guest | ||
| Hotel Guest on Veranda | ||
| Country Club Guest | ||
| Night Club Patron | ||
| Wedding Guest (uncredited) | ||
| Music Store Customer (uncredited) | ||
| Wedding Party Guest | ||
| Hotel Dancer (uncredited) | ||
| Minor Role (uncredited) | ||
| 1930 | Physical Exam Onlooker | |
| Golfer (uncredited) | ||
| Nightclub Patron (uncredited) | ||
| Party Boy | ||
| Poker Player | ||
| N/A | ||
| Wedding Guest | ||
| Party-Goer | ||
| 1929 | George Halloway | |
| Party Guest | ||
| Ruth's Friend (uncredited) | ||
| 1928 | George Baxter | |
| Gordon Elliot | ||
| 1927 | Telemachus | |
| Roy Schyler (as Gordon Elliott) | ||
| Aggressive Student at Dance | ||
| Party Guest | ||
| 1926 | Well-Wishing Villager | |
| 1925 | Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited) | |
| Athlete (uncredited) | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
