Date of birth: 1886-04-29
Place of birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Dick Elliot, Richard 'Dick' Elliott, Richard E. Elliott, Richard Elliott, Richard "Dick" Damon Elliott, Richard Damon Elliott

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

1941-08-09
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and

1939-10-19
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme
1948-10-21
Danny Mitchell and his canine pal Rusty befriend blind girl Penny Moffatt. Feeling cheated by life,

1945-04-14
Part of the Crime Does Not Pay short series.

1946-06-28
Two discharged service men go to the redwood country in northern California to visit the family of a

1940-11-09
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1947-01-01
Dr. Jim Gateson, a country doctor who has counselled and ministered to his community for 30 years, i

1942-10-01
Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.

1943-08-27
Ugly duckling Janie Farnsworth is a student at Pennington High School, and has a crush on Charles Gr

1952-09-01
In New York's 1880s newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It i

1949-04-30
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town societ

1945-07-27
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewi

1955-06-23
Marc Hill is the attorney for Emmet Devrey, a real estate developer with a past, who is being blackm

1941-03-07
A bucolic lawyer takes on big-city corruption, setting out to prove that an above-suspicion politici

1942-01-10
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

1954-04-15
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom wind

1946-10-12
A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie

1948-01-15
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1936-03-09
Charley, his wife Rosina and their daughter Darla attend "Bank night" at their local movie theater,

1943-03-18
Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.

1945-05-25
A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City.

1935-01-05
Arthur T. Ryan, a hitchhiker, gets a ride from haughty, society girl Glenda Wynant and her fiance, w

1940-09-09
A none-too-popular (nor good) radio singer, Rita Wilson is murdered while singing on the air in a ra

1945-11-21
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1947-09-15
An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely o

1941-02-07
In turn-of-the-century Cincinnati, vibrant shop girl Ray Smith falls in love with banker Walter Saxe

1938-08-22
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1950-04-10
An agent searches for a psychopath guilty of robbery and murder, and falls in love with a murder vic

1948-12-08
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1942-11-06
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1946-09-27
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1945-01-19
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1955-10-13
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1942-10-23
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1940-06-29
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1951-10-09
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1935-06-21
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1937-04-16
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1938-06-18
Detective Alfalfa and his assistants Buckwheat and Porky try to solve a missing-candy case but find

1944-05-10
Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.

1933-09-29
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls eve

1938-10-14
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1947-12-06
A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airp

1947-06-20
An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.

1942-03-27
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify

1947-08-13
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, h

1935-10-19
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed d

1934-07-13
A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.

1936-10-09
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.

1939-04-19
A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.

1952-06-26
After beginning their train trip to California, a famous film actress and her daughter discover thei

1939-01-27
A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.

1933-12-16
Two dueling suitors vie for the heart of the town’s beautiful music teacher. Features Songs: “Please

1942-01-23
A police reporter solves a murder case in Chicago, then moves on to St. Louis-but not voluntarily, s

1938-07-29
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The

1938-04-20
In his starring debut, Roy gets elected to Congress in order to bring water to the ranchers in his d

1941-08-29
Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers o

1957-08-23
Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though hi

1947-02-20
Steve Morgan kills a man in a holdup and hitches a ride to Los Angeles with Fergie. At a gas station

1941-04-25
An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt V

1949-01-05
Major Geoffrey Barnett, U. S. Army Intelligence Service, is sent to Alaska, to apprehend a deserter,

1943-05-21
When his wife threatens him with divorce, a reporter courts her again.

1943-01-15
Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves compe

1934-03-27
A dedicated and compassionate policewoman risks her job by offering refuge to a young mother with mo

1936-03-25
When a wealthy heiress discovers the terrible family secret that has been hidden from her since birt

1944-06-09
A newspaper reporter uncovers a killer when he makes contact with the names listed in a dead man's a

1937-05-14
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1937-08-18
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1938-12-09
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1936-12-04
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1939-11-22
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1939-01-27
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1937-12-10
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1957-12-22
In order to be able to get the names of winning horses at the track, Sach agrees to sell his soul to

1934-05-26
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1938-03-03
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1936-01-17
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1943-04-30
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1944-04-01
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1939-03-29
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1939-04-04
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying

1939-03-29
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures la

1939-11-17
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1946-05-16
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1939-07-28
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized versi

1939-09-09
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1939-10-24
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1940-09-05
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1955-05-08
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1946-07-19
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1945-11-03
This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's effor

1946-12-20
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1946-03-18
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1947-04-18
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1938-02-04
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1957-09-26
A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob

1946-02-26
The goings on of a few members of a radio show's audience is the premise for this feature film deriv

1942-11-12
Hired actors posing as Russian royalty complicate a social-climbing mother's efforts to fix up her s

1943-09-17
Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After No

1950-11-04
Joe Palooka encounters gangsters and tries to alert the law.

1941-07-15
By stripping all the timber from the land, a lumber baron threatens everyone with flooding. Gene won

1945-10-13
Nick, a motel owner who has lost faith in more than just the humanity of mankind, is visited by a ki
1999-01-01
Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclus

1958-10-01
Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is strande
1934-12-24
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1940-02-22
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lin

1936-07-10
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want h

1943-12-23
The film is partly a parody of The Goodwill Court, a popular radio problem hosted by advice-dispense

1938-04-07
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1936-05-22
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds

1944-08-21
A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a m

1952-06-09
Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has b

1948-04-15
A murderous bank robber on the run from the law hides out in a small town.

1940-10-21
Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are tryi

1946-03-28
A country girl, wanting to break into show-business, comes to New York City and, by her actions, man

1938-06-17
Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy f

1940-06-20
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. Aft

1940-08-09
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and love

1940-06-05
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by

1940-04-19
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He se

1940-12-20
As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom

1940-09-15
His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Ce

1940-03-14
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of

1949-07-31
When the local Banker jumps the Blaine's claim, they have men rob the bank to retrieve their money.

1943-09-25
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.

1950-05-18
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.

1948-01-01
A young boy is struck by lightning, and discovers afterwards that he has the power of telepathy.

1945-11-02
A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman fr

1936-03-20
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in t

1957-10-06
Sach and the gang fool Nazis and a sultan in North Africa.

1948-04-30
Two female con artists from New York City, fleeing the law with money from their latest scam, hide o

1950-09-14
Charles Starrett once more hits the trail as "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Across the Badlands. By

1941-12-19
A struggling singer, devoted to his young son, fears the child's super-spoiled, unloving but wealthy

1941-10-23
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next doo

1941-01-04
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.

1939-12-15
When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts,

1946-05-09
Roy visits his home town while on a personal appearance tour. While there he enters a pony express r

1948-09-22
In order to help neighboring Indians irrigate their farms, the Hotshots plan to put on a fair for to

1942-04-17
A dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders.

1955-10-31
After killing Billy the Kid, Sheriff Pat Garrett is relentlessly dogged by members of the Kid's gang

1950-02-20
The owner of a silver mine, having repeatedly been the victim of the Silver Bandit, sends his clerk

1945-12-28
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.

1937-03-12
Americans Tommy Baldwin and Joe Dugan are hired to transport a fabulous diamond from Shanghai to San

1949-06-10
A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida's east coast. In its sh

1939-08-01
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

1957-11-22
Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more re

1939-03-31
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney a

1941-03-27
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.

1935-05-31
Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music t

1946-09-06
The Teen-Agers are down in the dumps: their football team faces almost-certain defeat, the school pa

1941-05-13
A rich playboy wants to marry a chorus girl, but he'll lose his fortune if his trustee doesn't appro

1952-11-11
Oklahoma outlaw Belle Starr meets the Dalton gang when rescued from lynching by Bob Dalton, who fall

1933-04-15
Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the lo

1952-04-10
A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, A

1938-10-11
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.

1943-02-26
The management of touring ice show faces mounting debts.

1943-09-01
Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself p

1943-12-30
An Ohio bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare when his descriptions is a fit of a maniac killer.

1938-01-16
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fia

1950-09-01
Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony Wells,

1946-01-11
Marshall Dan Mitchell, who is the law in Abilene, has the job of keeping peace between two groups. F

1937-01-23
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a bre

1936-05-23
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becomi

1950-12-26
A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.

1944-09-01
General store owners, through a series of contrivances, end up on the better side of a practical jok

1947-01-04
The adventures of a boy and his dog in a small town.

1945-09-07
Edgar’s day goes from bad to catastrophic after he lends his brother-in-law his car — mistake number

1946-04-04
Squire Skimp has a new plan to swindle the people of Pine Ridge. However, Lum has something more imp

1933-05-06
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.

1945-03-15
A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speed

1950-01-20
Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in shar

1948-02-20
Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his uncle, John Armin, a despotic and hard-hearted czar

1946-05-31
A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to

1936-11-18
Mavis Arden is a sensational movie star. Her following spans the world and her personal appearance t

1945-07-03
Gang Leader Dutch Malone goes on a hunting trip and is in a car wreck and is confined to the hospita

1942-10-10
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpi

1955-05-30
Gabrielle Maple works in a dusty desert gas station-café, but yearns for the life of an artist in Fr

1950-10-04
Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station.

1959-06-01
Rock-n-roll promoter Alan Freed holds a talent search to develop a new rock star, then must find the

1956-12-14
Rock-and-roller Arnie Haynes returns to his hometown as a hero to the teenagers. However, the mayor

1941-11-01
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.

1945-01-12
A police detective uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket and her gang.
1947-02-27
A young man who wants desperately to become a newspaper reporter decides he can cinch his career by

1958-10-02
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1942-05-28
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.

1935-06-01
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1947-06-01
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1955-12-04
A scarecrow is brought to life by a witch and made to pose as a nobleman.

1937-06-04
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his re

1951-03-05
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1933-12-03
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1958-02-09
Dan Beattie gives up his lawman job to move further west and rejoin his old war buddy Curt Warren in

1949-11-02
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1936-02-28
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of Presid
1939-11-03
Errol loses his job because he cannot tell a lie, and when he gets involved with kidnappers, nobody
1939-03-10
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1944-12-18
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1939-04-06
Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the Br

1949-01-22
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1948-05-20
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