Biographies: Bill Elliott - Actor

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Bill Elliot, American actor, was born in Pattonsburg, Missouri, USA on October 16, 1904 as Gordon Nance, and died in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA on November 26, 1965 of lung cancer. Bill Elliott married two wives and had one daughter. Among his most important works are Old Los Angeles 1948, Hellfire 1949, Prairie Schooners 1940 and Across the Sierras 1941. Bill Elliott is a prolific American actor, who worked in silent and talk cinema, specializing in low-production B Western films, especially the Red Reader film series. Bill Elliot grew up on a horse farm near Kansas City, where his father worked as a horse broker and commissioner for the Kansas Company. At the age of 16, Bill Elliott won a rodeo competition, and attended for a short period at Rockhurst College, before moving to California to become an actor, and trained in the Pasadena Theater. He participated in a number of local plays, until he presented his first silent films in the mid-twenties, The Plastic Age 1925, and after a number of short films and silent fiction, he presented his first speaking films, The Great Divide 1929, followed by an uninterrupted flow of short and fiction films, where he played secondary roles in comedies. Polo Joe 1936, the romance Wife, Doctor and Nurse 1937, the musical Boots and Saddles 1937, the adventures Love Takes Flight 1937, the drama Boy of the Streets 1937, and in 1938 he worked with the Columbia Company on a series of B Western films starting with The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok 1938 under the name Wild Bill, and the series (29 films) succeeded, and Bill Elliot became one of the ten best stars in Western films, and in 1943 he left Columbia and joined Republic for He presents high-productivity American western films, and presented the comedic character of the Red Ryder, where he presented a series of 16 films, then left for Monogram in 1951 to return to films of the middle category until 1954, where he presented the last American western films Bitter Creek 1954, then moved to adventure films And the dramatic crime until 1957, when he presented his last work, Footsteps in the Night, 1957, where he worked in some television commercials and participated in cigarette advertisements, until he died in 1965 of lung cancer at the age of 61.

4 September 2021
Christina Aziz