Elliott Reid
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![]() Reid with actress Pat Crowley, 1959. | |
Born | Elliott Reid January 16, 1920 New York City, New York, U.S. |
Died | June 21, 2013 Studio City, California |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1940–95 |
Elliott Reid (born January 16, 1920, died June 21, 2013) was an American character actor from New York City.
Career
Reid worked regularly in radio dramas during the Golden Age of radio. His credits include Orson Welles's The Mercury Theatre on the Air, The Cavalcade of America, Theatre Guild on the Air and the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. In some early performances he was credited as Ted Reid.
Reid’s best-known film role was as private detective Ernie Malone, Jane Russell’s love interest, in the 20th Century-Fox classic Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953).
A member of The Actors Studio from its inception,[1] Reid was a regular in NBC television's That Was the Week That Was (1964–65) and made guest appearances on Murder, She Wrote, The Odd Couple, I Love Lucy, Barney Miller, Small Wonder, Perry Mason and The Munsters. He co-starred as Felix Unger in a road production of The Odd Couple with Dan Dailey as Oscar Madison during the late 1960s. Reid played Professor Shelby Ashton in two Walt Disney movies starring Fred MacMurray: The Absent Minded Professor in 1961, and sequel Son of Flubber in 1963. Reid retired in 1995, aged 75.
Selected filmography
- Young Ideas (1943)
- The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
- Vicki (1953)
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
- Inherit the Wind (1960)
- The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
- The Thrill Of It All (1963)
- Son of Flubber (1963)
- Move Over Darling (1963)
- Follow Me, Boys! (1966)
- Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)
References
- ^ Garfield, David (1980). "Birth of The Actors Studio: 1947-1950". A Player's Place: The Story of The Actors Studio. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc. p. 52. ISBN 0-02-542650-8.
Also [in Lewis' class were] Henry Barnard, Jay Barney, John Becher, Philip Bourneuf, Joan Chandler, Peter Cookson, Stephen Elliott, Robert Emhardt, Joy Geffen, William Hansen, Will Hare, Jane Hoffman, George Keane, Don Keefer, George Matthews, Peggy Meredith, Ty Perry, Margaret Phillips, David Pressman, William Prince, Elliot Reid, Frances Reid, Kurt Richards, Elizabeth Ross, Thelma Schnee, Joshua Shelley, Fed Stewart, John Straub, Michael Strong, John Sylvester, Julie Warren, Mary Welch, Lois Wheeler, and William Woodson.
External links
- Elliott Reid at IMDb