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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.
- January 1, 1
- Pattonsburg, Missouri, USA
- January 1, 1
- Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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 ...
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.
- October 16, 1904
- November 26, 1965
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.
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Wild Bill Elliott. In THE SAVAGE HORDE (1950), Elliott plays a gunfighter called Ringo who gives up his gun when he accidentally wounds his own brother (Jim Davis), a cavalry officer charged with pursuing him.