Dick Elliott
Born: 1886-04-29 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 1961-12-22
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Richard "Dick" Elliott (April 30, 1886 – December 22, 1961) was an American character actor who played in over 240 films from the 1930s until the time of his death. He was born Richard Damon Elliott in Boston, Massachusetts. Elliott played many different roles, typically as a somewhat blustery sort, such as a politician. A short, fat man, Elliott played Santa Claus on the Jimmy Durante, Red Skelton, and Jack Benny programs. Elliott had a couple of memorable lines in It's a Wonderful Life (1946), in which he scolded James Stewart, who was trying to say goodnight to Donna Reed, advising him to stop hemming and hawing and "just go ahead and kiss her". He also had a few memorable appearances in episodes of the Adventures of Superman television series. He appeared three times as Stanley on the CBS sitcom December Bride, as well as on two of ABC/Warner Brothers' western series, Sugarfoot and Maverick. He was cast as the prospector Peter Cooper and then as Sheriff Tiny Morris in two segments of CBS's Tales of the Texas Rangers. He appeared twice as Doc Thornton on ABC's The Real McCoys. Elliott is perhaps best known as Mayberry's Mayor Pike in early episodes of CBS's The Andy Griffith Show, one of his last screen works. In two of the eleven episodes featuring Elliot as mayor, actress Josie Lloyd portrayed his daughter. On December 22, 1961, Elliott died from heart illness.
Filmography
1999
- Television: The First Fifty Years as Bartender (archive footage)
1960
- The Andy Griffith Show as Mayor Pike
1959
- Rawhide as McTavish
- Go, Johnny, Go! as Man in Phone Booth (uncredited)
1958
- Man of the West as Willie (uncredited)
- Man from God's Country as Mayor (uncredited)
- Days of Wine and Roses as Mr. Trayner
1957
- Maverick as Poker Player (uncredited)
- Sugarfoot as Mr. Pomeroy (uncredited)
- The Real McCoys as Mr. Tremantle
- Omar Khayyam as Tavern Keeper
- The Joker is Wild as Shaving Man (uncredited)
- Bombers B-52 as Mr. Sampton (uncredited)
- Up In Smoke as Mike
- Looking for Danger as Mike Clancy
1956
- The Gale Storm Show as Bartlett
- Don't Knock The Rock as Sheriff at End
1955
- The Petrified Forest as Commander
- Double Jeopardy as Happy Harry
- The Twinkle In God's Eye as Lumber salesman
- The Tilted Tenderfoot as Mayor
- Last of the Desperados as Walter 'Wally' Stone
- Feathertop as Judge Gookin
1954
- Witness to Murder as Apartment Manager
- Meet the O'Briens as Mr. Beach
1952
- High Noon as Kibbee (uncredited)
- Rancho Notorious as Storyteller (uncredited)
- Montana Belle as Jeptha Rideout - Banker
- Park Row as Jeff Hudson
- Three for Bedroom C as Train Passenger
1951
- I Love Lucy as Male Spectator (uncredited)
- The Red Skelton Show as Willie's Boss/Bartender
- Fort Defiance as Kincaid
- Flame Of Stamboul as Mr. Shirley (uncredited)
1950
- Gun Crazy as Man Fleeing Robbed Market (uncredited)
- Union Station as Powerhouse Workman (uncredited)
- Hunt the Man Down as Happy (uncredited)
- Bunco Squad as Thurman (uncredited)
- Rock Island Trail as Martin, Railroad Conductor
- Across the Badlands as Rufus Downey
- Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle as Sheriff
- Western Pacific Agent as Sheriff
- The Silver Bandit as Van Fleet Stooglehammer (as Richard Elliott)
1949
- Act of Violence as Convention Party Drunk (uncredited)
- Flamingo Road as Tom Coyne (uncredited)
- Night Unto Night as Auto Court Manager
- Trail of the Yukon as Editor Sullivan
- Rose of the Yukon as Doc Read
- Feudin' Rhythm as Charles Chester Upperworth
1948
- Silver River as Man Waiting Hours at McComb's (uncredited)
- Albuquerque as Harvey (uncredited)
- The Sainted Sisters as Milt Freeman (uncredited)
- Homicide for Three as Doorman at Atwood Towers
- Money Madness as Malt Shop Customer (uncredited)
- Rusty Leads the Way as Board Member (uncredited)
- Slippy McGee as Fred Appelby
- The Main Street Kid as Sam Trotter
- Singin' Spurs as Mr. Miggs
1947
- Driftwood as Townsman
- Desperate as Sheriff Hat Lewis (uncredited)
- Singapore as Passenger (uncredited)
- Heading for Heaven as Roger Wingate
- Thunder Mountain as Dick (uncredited)
- A Likely Story as Conductor (uncredited)
- The Devil Thumbs a Ride as Mack Wilkins (uncredited)
- Ginger as Mayor Hector Tillford
- Doctor Jim as Edgar
- The Scooper Dooper as Walter Harper - Newspaper Editor
1946
- It's a Wonderful Life as Man on Porch (uncredited)
- Abilene Town as Townsman (uncredited)
- Deadline at Dawn as Chap (uncredited)
- Dangerous Money as P.T. Burke
- Talk About a Lady as Baldwin
- The Dark Horse as Ben Martin
- Hot Cargo as Frankie
- Partners in Time as Squire Skimp
- That Texas Jamboree as Mayor Smith
- Rainbow Over Texas as Yacht Captain Monroe
- High School Hero as Mayor Whitehead
- She Wrote the Book as Party Guest
- Breakfast in Hollywood as Man in Bus Depot (uncredited)
- Follow That Blonde as Judge
1945
- Christmas in Connecticut as Judge Crothers
- Dillinger as Man in Bar (uncredited)
- The Clock as New Jersey Man at Penn Station
- Saratoga Trunk as Politician (uncredited)
- Adventure as George
- The Man Who Walked Alone as Mayor
- Star in the Night as Traveler (uncredited)
- Girls of the Big House as Felton
- You Drive Me Crazy as Mr. Michaelson
- Gangs of the Waterfront as Police Chief Davis
- Purity Squad as Judge Gilmenn
- Main Street After Dark as MacLean (uncredited)
- Fall Guy as Bail Bondsman (uncredited)
- Adventures of Kitty O'Day as Bascom, Hotel Guest
1944
- Silent Partner as Pop
- Hi, Beautiful as Passenger
- When Strangers Marry as Sam Prescott
- Show Business as Binoculars Man
- Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid as Matthews
- Goin' to Town as Squire Skimp
1943
- Thank Your Lucky Stars as Customer in Bette Davis Number (uncredited)
- So's Your Uncle as Police Sergeant
- The Powers Girl as Beauty Pageant Announcer (uncredited)
- Nobody's Darling as Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
- Silver Skates as Promoter
- After Midnight with Boston Blackie as Mr. Potts - Justice of the Peace
- Whispering Footsteps as Chief Joe Charters
- Three Hearts for Julia as Smith (uncredited)
- Wintertime as Husband (uncredited)
- Swing Out the Blues as Malcolm P. Carstairs
- Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour as J.P. McCluskey
1942
- All Through the Night as Husband of Losing Bidder (uncredited)
- Springtime in the Rockies as Mr. Jeepers (uncredited)
- Criminal Investigator as Ed Brandt (uncredited)
- You Can't Escape Forever as Meeker (uncredited)
- So's Your Aunt Emma! as Evans
- The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine as Tim Miller
- Man From Headquarters as Editor Elwin A. Jonas
- Meet the Stewarts as Mr. Willoughby (uncredited)
- Laugh Your Blues Away as Mr. Conklin
- Scattergood Survives a Murder as Mathew Quentin
1941
- Manpower as Drunk Texan (uncredited)
- The Wagons Roll at Night as Mr. Paddleford (uncredited)
- A Man Betrayed as Ward Heeler (uncredited)
- Four Mothers as Ed (uncredited)
- Back Street as Hotel desk clerk
- She Knew All the Answers as Broker
- One Foot in Heaven as Casper Cullenbaugh (uncredited)
- Three Girls About Town as Magician Boarding Bus
- Road to Happiness as Pawnshop Owner (uncredited)
- Sunset in Wyoming as Lieutenant Governor Cornelius Peabody
- The Pittsburgh Kid as Garvey
- Mr. District Attorney as Detective in Café
1940
- The Mortal Storm as Passport Official on Train
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Politician (uncredited)
- I Love You Again as Ranger Leader (uncredited)
- Up in the Air as B. J. Hastings, Station Owner
- Florian as Auctioneer
- Two Girls on Broadway as Ice Rink Security Man (uncredited)
- Li'l Abner as Marryin' Sam
- Melody Ranch as Sheriff Barstow
- Behind the News as Foster
- Young Bill Hickok as Elliott
- One Man's Law as Prendergast
- Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride as Airport Agent
- Women Without Names as Roomer
1939
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Carl Cook
- Another Thin Man as Detective (uncredited)
- The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt as Patrol-Car Cop at Italian Restaurant (uncredited)
- Let Us Live as Rotarian Juror (uncredited)
- The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle as Train Conductor (uncredited)
- The Story of Alexander Graham Bell as Man Laughing at Demo
- Boy Trouble as Dr. Benshlager
- Frontier Marshal as Drunk
- I'm from Missouri as Mule Judge
- Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase as McKeever
- The Amazing Mr. Williams as Druggist (uncredited)
- Undercover Agent as Garrison - Henchman
- I Stole a Million as Small-Town Doctor (uncredited)
- Sudden Money as Gambler
- All Women Have Secrets as Justice of the Peace
- Home Boner
- Pack Up Your Troubles as Booking Agent
- Truth Aches
1938
- Prison Farm as The Glenby Judge
- Next Time I Marry as Henry (uncredited)
- Tenth Avenue Kid as Gun salesman
- The Jury's Secret as Donald Graves
- Under Western Stars as Sen. William P. Scully
- Mr. Moto's Gamble as Kansas City Gambler (Uncredited)
- Little Miss Broadway as Man Carrying Violin Case
- International Settlement as Ocean Liner Passenger
- A Man to Remember as Hank
- Start Cheering as Station Agent
- Hide and Shriek as Haunted-house proprietor
- Down on the Farm as Slicker
1937
- You Only Live Once as Newspaper Editor (uncredited)
- China Passage as Philip Burton
- Quick Money as Jeffrey Walker
- Parnell as Middle Aged Man
- Vogues of 1938 as Johnny Withers - Ticket Broker
- Behind The Headlines as Bartender
- The Outcasts of Poker Flat as Stumpy Carter
1936
- The Prisoner of Shark Island as Actor at Ford's Theatre (uncredited)
- The Princess Comes Across as Ship's Surgeon (uncredited)
- Silly Billies as Mayor Culpepper
- Wanted: Jane Turner as Arizona Sheepman (uncredited)
- Her Master's Voice as Police Captain
- Go West Young Man as Reporter (uncredited)
- The Big Game as Lowell
- Brilliant Marriage as Editor
- High Tension as Sundholm
- Educating Father as Townley (uncredited)
- Neighborhood House as Perkins - Charley's Boss
1935
- Dr. Socrates as Photographer
- Break of Hearts as Max - Florist (uncredited)
- Helldorado as Waiter
- Sprucin' Up as Mr. Jones
- Men of the Hour as Theatre Manager
- Ladies Crave Excitement as Starke's Aide
1934
- We're Rich Again as Fred Green
- Woman Unafraid as Tom Brady
- The Merry Frinks as Reporter
- Shivers
1933
- Stage Mother as Party Guest
- Central Airport as Man Looking for Driver
- Picture Snatcher as Staff Editor (uncredited)
- Please as Sonny's Father
- The Worst Woman in Paris? as Mayor Rodney