Dick Elliott
Acting
Born 1886-04-29
Died 1961-12-22
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
59 credits
The Andy Griffith Show
Maverick
The Red Skelton Show
I Love Lucy
Rawhide
It's a Wonderful Life
The Real McCoys
Sugarfoot
Lock-Up
High Noon
The Gale Storm Show
Show Business
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Man of the West
The Clock
Bombers B-52
You Only Live Once
Start Cheering
Gun Crazy
All Through the Night
Rancho Notorious
Another Thin Man
The Prisoner of Shark Island
Back Street
Flamingo Road
Act of Violence
Television: The First Fifty Years
Saratoga Trunk
Christmas in Connecticut
Driftwood
Abilene Town
I Love You Again
Union Station
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
The Mortal Storm
Silver River
The Joker is Wild
Montana Belle
Double Jeopardy
Parnell
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Sprucin' Up
Let Us Live
Dillinger
Manpower
Stage Mother
Frontier Marshal
She Knew All the Answers
Man from God's Country
Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938
Witness to Murder
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Night Unto Night
Central Airport
Four Mothers
Adventure
Albuquerque
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Desperate
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