Elliott Reid

This article is about the radio and television actor. For the fictional character, see Elliot Reid.

Elliott Reid
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, 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)

External links

• Elliott Reid at IMDb