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