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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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Total trailers found: 193
08 May 1955
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
13 May 1941
Chorus girl and rich playboy want to marry but he'll lose his fortune unless his trustee approves of his mate.
17 November 1939
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
22 November 1957
Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more reason to, Jim is dating his daughter, Lois.
28 July 1939
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.
20 December 1946
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls.
17 April 1942
A dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders.
15 January 1943
Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer.
27 July 1945
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane.
04 April 1939
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice.
30 April 1949
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
31 May 1935
Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher.
09 June 1944
A newspaper reporter uncovers a killer when he makes contact with the names listed in a dead man's address book.
13 October 1945
Nick, a motel owner who has lost faith in more than just the humanity of mankind, is visited by a kindly stranger on Christmas Eve.
04 January 1941
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
04 October 1950
Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.
26 May 1934
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
29 June 1940
In this old-time Western from director George Sherman, peaceable cowpoke Jack Summers takes the job of sheriff to help his adopted town in its bid to beat out a nearby settlement for a lucrative railroad contract.
12 October 1946
A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie Chan, that there have been two attempts on his life.
15 April 1933
Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins.
14 April 1945
Part of the Crime Does Not Pay short series.
10 January 1942
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
07 April 1938
Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Lee Chan, Moto sets out to track down the killer based on a single ominous clue: a poisoned boxing glove! But when Moto's hunch points to a corrupt gambling syndicate, he's forced to wager his very life to unmask the culprit—or go down for the count.
26 September 1957
A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.
21 June 1935
Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures.
03 March 1938
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
01 August 1939
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
25 September 1943
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
30 December 1943
An Ohio bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare when his descriptions is a fit of a maniac killer.
19 October 1935
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife.
20 February 1947
Steve Morgan kills a man in a holdup and hitches a ride to Los Angeles with Fergie. At a gas station, they pick up two women.
14 October 1938
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
29 July 1938
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
16 May 1946
With the backing of the Mayor, Brady is running a crooked gambling operation. When Sheriff Curt shuts him down, he reopens when the Mayor charters his place as a private club.
04 June 1937
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.
27 January 1939
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
15 September 1947
An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.
21 August 1944
A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.
25 May 1945
A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City.
19 April 1939
A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.
23 January 1937
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison.
06 March 1952
A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from the law in exchange for a price.
30 April 1948
Two female con artists from New York City, fleeing the law with money from their latest scam, hide out in a small town in Maine, near the Canadian border.
06 October 1957
Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) fool Nazis and a sultan in North Africa.
14 March 1940
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder.
17 January 1936
Besieged by his adoring female fans, radio celebrity Ned "The Fireside Troubadour" Farrar hides out at the home of his wife Queena's imperious Aunt Min.
09 June 1952
Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train.
07 February 1941
Previously filmed in 1932, and remade a third time in 1961, this second film version of Fannie Hurst's novel stars Margaret Sullavan as a fashion designer in love with a married banker (Charles Boyer).
18 August 1937
An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too.
23 August 1957
Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they are still popular the world over.
01 June 1947
Marvin Hayden returns to find his ranch is about to be sold at auction and the Hayden Jorth feud still going strong.
01 November 1941
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
06 December 1947
A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airport, convince the property's owner that he hasn't long to live.
09 September 1940
A none-too-popular (nor good) radio singer, Rita Wilson is murdered while singing on the air in a radio studio.
01 October 1942
Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.
22 November 1939
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary.
09 August 1941
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang.
20 March 1936
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.
16 April 1937
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
19 October 1939
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington.
