Bill Elliott
1904-10-16 ( 120 years old ) in Pattonsburg, Missouri, USA

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.

Movies

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch 1976-05-01
It's Showtime 1976-03-31
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? 1975-08-06
Footsteps in the Night 1957-04-14
Chain of Evidence 1957-01-06
Calling Homicide 1956-09-30
Sudden Danger 1955-12-14
Dial Red O 1955-03-13
The Forty-Niners 1954-07-30
Bitter Creek 1954-02-21
Vigilante Terror 1953-11-15
Topeka 1953-08-09
Rebel City 1953-05-10
The Homesteaders 1953-03-22
The Maverick 1952-12-14
Fargo 1952-09-07
Kansas Territory 1952-05-04
Waco 1952-02-24
The Longhorn 1951-11-25
The Showdown 1950-08-15
The Savage Horde 1950-05-22
The Marshall of Trail City 1950-05-10
Hellfire 1949-05-29
The Last Bandit 1949-02-25
The Gallant Legion 1948-05-24
Old Los Angeles 1948-04-24
The Fabulous Texan 1947-11-09
Wyoming 1947-07-28
The Plainsman and the Lady 1946-11-11
Conquest of Cheyenne 1946-07-29
In Old Sacramento 1946-05-31
Sun Valley Cyclone 1946-05-10
Sheriff of Redwood Valley 1946-03-29
California Gold Rush 1946-02-04
Wagon Wheels Westward 1945-12-21
Colorado Pioneers 1945-11-14
Marshal of Laredo 1945-10-06
Phantom of the Plains 1945-09-07
Bells of Rosarita 1945-06-19
Lone Texas Ranger 1945-05-20
Great Stagecoach Robbery 1945-02-15
Sheriff of Las Vegas 1944-12-31
Vigilantes of Dodge City 1944-11-15
Cheyenne Wildcat 1944-09-30
San Antonio Kid 1944-08-16
Marshal of Reno 1944-07-02
Tucson Raiders 1944-05-14
Hidden Valley Outlaws 1944-04-01
Mojave Firebrand 1944-03-19
Death Valley Manhunt 1943-11-25
Overland Mail Robbery 1943-11-20
Wagon Tracks West 1943-08-18
Bordertown Gun Fighters 1943-07-08
The Man from Thunder River 1943-06-11
Calling Wild Bill Elliott 1943-04-30
The Valley of Vanishing Men 1942-12-17
Vengeance of the West 1942-08-16
Prairie Gunsmoke 1942-07-16
The Devil's Trail 1942-05-14
North of the Rockies 1942-04-02
Bullets for Bandits 1942-02-12
The Lone Star Vigilantes 1942-01-01
Roaring Frontiers 1941-10-15
King of Dodge City 1941-08-14
The Son of Davy Crockett 1941-07-15
Hands Across the Rockies 1941-06-19
Tank Patrol 1941-06-16
The Return of Daniel Boone 1941-05-07
North from the Lone Star 1941-03-30
Across the Sierras 1941-02-13
The Wildcat of Tucson 1940-12-31
Beyond the Sacramento 1940-11-11
Prairie Schooners 1940-09-29
The Return of Wild Bill 1940-06-26
The Man from Tumbleweeds 1940-05-02
Pioneers of the Frontier 1940-02-14
The Taming of the West 1939-12-07
The Roaring Twenties 1939-10-28
Overland with Kit Carson 1939-07-21
The Law Comes to Texas 1939-04-16
Frontiers of '49 1939-01-19
In Early Arizona 1938-11-02
Letter of Introduction 1938-08-05
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok 1938-06-30
The Lady in the Morgue 1938-04-22
Boy of the Streets 1938-01-08
Love Takes Flight 1937-11-05
Roll Along, Cowboy 1937-10-18
Boots and Saddles 1937-10-04
Wife, Doctor and Nurse 1937-09-17
You Can't Have Everything 1937-08-02
Michael O'Halloran 1937-05-15
Melody for Two 1937-05-01
Swing It Professor 1937-03-13
Midnight Court 1937-03-06
Guns of the Pecos 1936-12-28
King of Hockey 1936-12-19
Fugitive in the Sky 1936-11-28
Polo Joe 1936-11-04
The Case of the Black Cat 1936-10-31
Down the Stretch 1936-09-18
Trailin' West 1936-09-04
China Clipper 1936-08-11
Two Against the World 1936-07-11
The Case of the Velvet Claws 1936-07-03
The Big Noise 1936-06-22
Murder by an Aristocrat 1936-06-13
Bullets or Ballots 1936-06-06
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan 1936-01-11
Dangerous 1935-12-25
Man of Iron 1935-12-21
Broadway Hostess 1935-12-07
Stars Over Broadway 1935-11-23
Moonlight on the Prairie 1935-11-02
Personal Maid's Secret 1935-10-26
Dr. Socrates 1935-10-19
The Goose and the Gander 1935-09-21
Page Miss Glory 1935-09-07
Broadway Gondolier 1935-07-27
Bright Lights 1935-07-27
The Girl from 10th Avenue 1935-06-01
'G' Men 1935-05-04
Go Into Your Dance 1935-04-20
Traveling Saleslady 1935-03-28
A Night at the Ritz 1935-03-23
While the Patient Slept 1935-03-09
The Woman in Red 1935-02-16
The Right to Live 1935-01-26
The Payoff 1935-01-09
The Secret Bride 1934-12-22
Murder in the Clouds 1934-12-15
A Lost Lady 1934-09-29
The Case of the Howling Dog 1934-09-22
Desirable 1934-09-08
The Merry Frinks 1934-05-26
Smarty 1934-05-19
Registered Nurse 1934-04-06
Wonder Bar 1934-03-31
Only Yesterday 1933-11-01
Stage Mother 1933-09-29
Handlebars 1933-08-26
Midnight Mary 1933-06-30
Private Detective 62 1933-06-10
Cocktail Hour 1933-06-05
Gold Diggers of 1933 1933-05-27
The Little Giant 1933-05-20
Made on Broadway 1933-05-19
The Keyhole 1933-03-25
The Mummy 1932-12-22
Night After Night 1932-10-29
A Successful Calamity 1932-09-17
Jewel Robbery 1932-07-08
Bachelor's Affairs 1932-06-26
Merrily We Go to Hell 1932-06-10
The Rich Are Always with Us 1932-05-19
Scarface 1932-04-09
One Hour with You 1932-03-23
Vanity Fair 1932-03-15
Lady with a Past 1932-02-19
The Greeks Had a Word for Them 1932-02-03
Delicious 1931-12-27
Working Girls 1931-12-12
Platinum Blonde 1931-10-31
Left Over Ladies 1931-09-30
The Road to Reno 1931-09-25
Blonde Crazy 1931-09-16
Traveling Husbands 1931-08-15
Broadminded 1931-08-01
The Public Defender 1931-08-01
Sweepstakes 1931-07-10
Five and Ten 1931-06-13
Let's Do Things 1931-06-06
Party Husband 1931-06-06
Born to Love 1931-04-17
God's Gift to Women 1931-04-13
Going Wild 1930-12-21
Part Time Wife 1930-11-30
Sunny 1930-11-09
The Truth About Youth 1930-11-03
What Men Want 1930-07-12
She Who Gets Slapped 1930-05-15
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu 1930-05-02
The Girl Said No 1930-03-15
Lord Byron of Broadway 1930-02-28
She Couldn't Say No 1930-02-15
Broadway Scandals 1929-11-10
Night Parade 1929-10-27
The Great Divide 1929-09-15
Restless Youth 1928-11-30
The Boy Friend 1928-11-10
The Private Life of Helen of Troy 1927-12-09
The Arizona Wildcat 1927-11-20
The Drop Kick 1927-09-25
Children of Divorce 1927-04-25
Napoleon, Jr. 1926-11-14
The Shamrock Handicap 1926-05-02
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ 1925-12-25
The Plastic Age 1925-12-15

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