Dick Elliott
Dick Elliott
Short, portly, and possessed of a high-pitched laugh that cuts through the air like a buzzsaw, Massachussetts-born Dick Elliott had been on stage for nearly thirty before making his screen bow in 1933. Elliott was a frequent visitor to Broadway, enjoying a substantial run in the marathon hit Abie's Irish Rose. Physically and vocally unchanged from his first screen appearance in the '30s to his last in 1961, Elliott was most generally cast in peripheral roles designed to annoy the film's principal characters with his laughing jags or his obtrusive behavior; in this capacity, he appeared as drunken conventioneers, loud-mouthed theatre audience members, and "helpful" pedestrians. Elliott also excelled playing small-scale authority figures, such as stage managers, truant officers and rural judges. Still acting into his mid 70s, Dick Elliott appeared regularly as the mayor of Mayberry on the first season of The Andy Griffith Show, and was frequently cast as a department-store Santa in the Yuletide programs of such comics as Jack Benny and Red Skelton. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Dick Elliott:
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington with James Stewart , Jean Arthur , Claude Rains , Edward Arnold , Thomas Mitchell , Guy Kibbee , Beulah Bondi , Eugene Pallette , H.B. Warner , Harry Sr. Carey , Ruth Donnelly , Grant Mitchell , Porter Hall , William Demarest , Stanley Andrews , Jack Carson , Vernon Dent , Ann Doran , Helen Jerome Eddy , Frances Gifford , Mary Gordon , John Ince , Frank Jaquet , Robert Middlemass , Charles Moore , Gene Morgan , Jack Richardson , Larry Simms , Walter Soderling , Wyndham Standing , Craig Stevens , Carl Stockdale , Dub Taylor , Fred "Snowflake" Toones , Dave Willock , Frank O'Connor , John Russell
- Picture Snatcher with James Cagney , Ralph Bellamy , Alice White , Sterling Holloway , John Ince , Bob Perry , Phil Tead , Charles King
- The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle with Fred Astaire , Ginger Rogers , Edna May Oliver , Walter Brennan , Rolfe Sedan , Leonid Kinskey , Robert Strange , Douglas Walton , Victor Varconi , Marge Champion , George S. Irving , Louis Mercier , David MacDonald , Frank Mills , Bruce Mitchell , Frank O'Connor
- The Paleface with Bob Hope , Jane Russell , Robert Armstrong , Jackie Searl , Stanley Andrews , Iron Eyes Cody , Henry Brandon , Frank S. Hagney , Skelton Knaggs , Edgar Dearing , Dorothy Granger , Al Hill , Ethan Laidlaw , Ted Mapes , John "Skins" Miller , Arthur Space , Houseley Sr. Stevenson , Duke York , Hall Bartlett
- It's a Wonderful Life with James Stewart , Donna Reed , Lionel Barrymore , Thomas Mitchell , Henry Travers , Beulah Bondi , Ward Bond , Gloria Grahame , Frank Faylen , Frank S. Hagney , Sheldon Leonard , Larry Simms , H.B. Warner , Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer , Stanley Andrews , Ellen Corby , John Farrell MacDonald , Bert Moorhouse
- The Clock with Judy Garland , Robert Walker , James Gleason , Keenan Wynn , Marshall Thompson , Arthur Space , Ray Teal
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