From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaWild 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 Columbias 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 Heralds 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 Elliotts films by Bobby Blake). Elliott played the role for only two years but would forever be associated with it. Elliotts trademark was a pair of six guns worn butt-forward in their holsters.Elliotts 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.
Policeman Following Blonde (uncredited)
Film 1932
Roy Schyler (as Gordon Elliott)
Film 1927
Jim Neale
Film 1937
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Film 1931
Andy Doyle
Film 1957
Andy Doyle
Film 1956
Andy Doyle
Film 1957
Party Guest (uncredited)
Film 1932
Party Guest (uncredited)
Film 1933
Escort (uncredited)
Film 1932
Andy Doyle
Film 1955
Kenneth Martin
Film 1936
Little Lord Fauntleroy (uncredited)
Film 1937
Backgammon Man (uncredited)
Film 1938
Norman (uncredited)
Film 1934
Wild Bill Boone
Film 1941
Teddy
Film 1935
Carl Griffin
Film 1936
Ringo
Film 1950
Red Ryder
Film 1944
Red Ryder (as Wild Bill Elliott)
Film 1946
Red Ryder (as Wild Bill Elliott)
Film 1944
Red Ryder
Film 1944
James, Clerk at College Club
Film 1935
George Halloway
Film 1929
Josie Allen
Film 1947
Gary Conway
Film 1948
Walter Wilson
Film 1937
Wild Bill Elliott
Film 1950
'Wild' Bill Hickok
Film 1938
Aggressive Student at Dance
Film 1927
Tom Collins - Greer's Associate
Film 1935
Polo Match Spectator (uncredited)
Film 1934
(archive footage)
Film 1976
Randall
Film 1937
Odie Fenton
Film 1937
Dr. Allan
Film 1938
Bill Parker
Film 1937
Don Trumbeau
Film 1936
Kit Carson
Film 1939
Wild Bill Saunders
Film 1940
Telemachus
Film 1927
Red Ryder (as Wild Bill Elliott)
Film 1945
Wild Bill Tolliver
Film 1942
Andy Flynn / Andy Doyle
Film 1955
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Film 1932
Ship's Passenger / Dance Extra (uncredited)
Film 1932
Chauncey Courtland
Film 1938
Wedding Guest
Film 1930
Mace Corbin
Film 1953
Sam Nelson
Film 1954
Red Ryder
Film 1945
Party-Goer
Film 1930
Gordon Elliot
Film 1928
George Baxter
Film 1928
Wild Bill Saunders
Film 1940
Bill Martin
Film 1952
Golfer (uncredited)
Film 1930
Zeb Smith
Film 1949
Minor Role (uncredited)
Film 1931
Music Store Customer (uncredited)
Film 1931
Male Nurse
Film 1934
Hotel Guest on Veranda
Film 1931
Lulu's Bathing Companion (uncredited)
Film 1937
Hotel Dining Room Guest
Film 1931
Reporter
Film 1935
'Wild' Bill Hickok
Film 1941
Marshal Wild Bill Elliott (as Wild Bill Elliott)
Film 1943
Wild Bill Elliott
Film 1943
Wedding Guest
Film 1935
Playboy in 'Playboy of Paree' Number (uncredited)
Film 1935
Night Club Patron
Film 1931
Ruth's Friend (uncredited)
Film 1929
Ramon Duval
Film 1936
One of Tom's War Buddies
Film 1930
Physical Exam Onlooker
Film 1930
Sam Laxter
Film 1936
Film 1935
Warren Sherrill
Film 1935
Bill Elliott
Film 1944
Minor Role
Film 1935
Sharp, Board of Directors Member (uncredited)
Film 1936
Party Guest
Film 1929
Hotel Dancer (uncredited)
Film 1931
Red Ryder
Film 1944
Film 1930
Bootlegger (uncredited)
Film 1939
'Wild' Bill Hickok
Film 1941
Red Ryder (as Wild Bill Elliott)
Film 1944
Bank Teller (uncredited)
Film 1935
Alex Brown (Uncredited)
Film 1932
'Wild' Bill Hickok
Film 1942
John Freeman
Film 1939
City Attorney Seabrook
Film 1937
'Wild' Bill Hickok
Film 1942
Party Guest (uncredited)
Film 1932
Wild Bill Saunders
Film 1940
Freddie
Film 1935
Charlie Fagan
Film 1935
'Wild' Bill Hickok
Film 1940
Wild Bill Elliott
Film 1943
'Wild' Bill Hickok
Film 1940
Jefferson Duane
Film 1936
Stuart Wyatt
Film 1935
Governor's Secretary (uncredited)
Film 1934
Bicyclist (uncredited)
Film 1933
Jeff Holt
Film 1935
Maxine's Casino Escort (uncredited)
Film 1935
Guest at Polly's Party (uncredited)
Film 1933
Night Club Patron (uncredited)
Film 1933
Joe Daniels (as Wild Bill Elliott)
Film 1952
Pete Devlin
Film 1952
Bruce Thomas
Film 1937
Larry's Friend
Film 1931
Vincent's Assistant (uncredited)
Film 1935
'Wild' Bill Hickok
Film 1940
Backstage Actor
Film 1935
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Film 1930
Party Guest (uncredited)
Film 1927
Joaquin Murietta aka The Black Shadow
Film 1942
Jim Kirk
Film 1951
Red Ryder (as Wild Bill Elliott)
Film 1944
Red Ryder
Film 1945
Red Ryder
Film 1945
Red Ryder (as Wild Bill Elliott)
Film 1945
Red Ryder
Film 1946
Red Ryder (as Wild Bill Elliott)
Film 1945
Red Ryder
Film 1946
Red Ryder
Film 1946
Wild Bill Elliott
Film 1943
Sergeant Bill Cameron
Film 1942
'Wild' Bill Hickok
Film 1941
'Wild' Bill Hickok
Film 1941
'Wild' Bill Hickok
Film 1942
Poker Player
Film 1930
'Wild' Bill Hickok / Prince Katey
Film 1942
Wild Bill Elliott
Film 1943
'Wild' Bill Hickok
Film 1941
Wild Bill Elliott (as Wild Bill Elliott)
Film 1944
Wild Bill Elliott
Film 1945
Party Boy
Film 1931
Charles Alderson
Film 1947
Bill Stockton (as William Elliott)
Film 1948
Frank Norris / Frank Plummer (as William Elliott)
Film 1949
Tack Hamlin
Film 1953
Jim Levering
Film 1953
Clay Tyndall (as Wild Bill Elliott)
Film 1954
Bluey
Film 1941
Bit Role
Film 1932
Escort (uncredited)
Film 1931
Dance Extra / Lobby Extra
Film 1931
Wedding Party Guest
Film 1931
Self (archive footage)
Film 1975
Party Boy
Film 1930
Lt. Saunders
Film 1934
Athlete (uncredited)
Film 1925
New Year's Eve Reveler (Uncredited)
Film 1933
Self (archive footage)
Film 1976
Reporter in Courtroom (uncredited)
Film 1934
Bootlegger Who Gives Eddie the Bottle Outside the Club (uncredited)
Film 1935
Reporter (uncredited)
Film 1935
Gambler (uncredited)
Film 1932
Partygoer (uncredited)
Film 1933
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Film 1931
Man Outside Theatre (uncredited)
Film 1932
Hunter - Bank Worker (uncredited)
Film 1936
News Commentator (uncredited)
Film 1936
Pilot (uncredited)
Film 1936
Dancer (uncredited)
Film 1934
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Film 1925
Jackson's Secretary / Dorothy's Dance Partner
Film 1935
Party Guest (uncredited)
Film 1932
Polo Player (uncredited)
Film 1932
Wild Bill Saunders
Film 1939
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Film 1934
Man at Roulette Table (Uncredited)
Film 1933
Flora's Father
Film 1926
Gangster
Film 1930
Ann's Beau (uncredited)
Film 1931
Party Guest (uncredited)
Film 1933
Night Club Patron
Film 1933
Officer Grant
Tv 1968