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Wild Bill Elliott (born Gordon Nance, October 16, 1904 – November 26, 1965) was an American film actor. He specialized in playing the rugged heroes of B Westerns, particularly the Red Ryder series of films.
Bill Elliott. Actor: Across the Sierras. Born Gordon Nance in 1904 on a farm in Pattonsburg, Missouri -- a small town about 60 miles northeast of Kansas City -- the future "Wild Bill Elliott" grew up around horses. His father was a commissioner at the Kansas City Stockyards. and at age 16 Elliott won a first-place ribbon in that city's annual ...
Bill Elliott. Actor: Across the Sierras. Born Gordon Nance in 1904 on a farm in Pattonsburg, Missouri -- a small town about 60 miles northeast of Kansas City -- the future "Wild Bill Elliott" grew up around horses. His father was a commissioner at the Kansas City Stockyards. and at age 16 Elliott won a first-place ribbon in that city's annual ...
But Wild Bill Elliott could never stay peaceable, and those six-guns fired their way through B-western movie series at Columbia, Republic and Monogram/Allied Artists before he finally hung them up. It was legendary gunfighter James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok who gave Elliott his movie moniker, because Elliott played Hickok in the serial that ...
Elliott's appearances in shorts is a work in progress. Sound films only - a total of 209 films consisting of 77 westerns, 3 serials, 120 features and 9 shorts. First starring role: THE GREAT ADVENTURES OF WILD BILL HICKOK (Columbia, 1938) serial. First starring western: IN EARLY ARIZONA (Columbia, 1938).
Gordon “Wild Bill” Elliott was one of the film industry’s top moneymakers in westerns during the 1940s and 1950s and was voted one of the ten best “Money Making Stars” in the Motion Picture Herald poll from 1942 to 1952. Elliott reversed the typical pattern by abandoning more general acting for the western field.
Wild Bill Elliott: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0254381/ Dub 'Cannonball' Taylor: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0852305/ YouTube has Elliott starring in the unsold TV pilot MARSHALL OF TRAIL CITY (and the opening titles spell MARSHAL with two LL's): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq4v1IJrH44
Biography. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wild Bill Elliott (October 16, 1904 – November 26, 1965) was an American film actor. He specialized in playing the rugged heroes of B Westerns, particularly the Red Ryder series of films. By 1925, he was getting occasional extra work in films.
Wild Bill Elliott (born Gordon Nance, October 16, 1904 – November 26, 1965) was an American film actor. He specialized in playing the rugged heroes of B Westerns, particularly the Red Ryder series of films. Quick Facts Born, Died ... Wild Bill Elliott. Lobby card for The Devil's Trail (1942)
WILD BILL ELLIOTT OF WESTERNS DIES; Cowboy Star, 62, Was Hero of More Than 60 Films. Share full article. Nov. 28, 1965. The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context...
