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Elliott Reid

Elliott Reid
Elliott Reid
Born: Jan 16, 1920 in New York, New York
Occupation: Actor
Active: '40s-'60s
Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
Career Highlights: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Follow Me, Boys!, Vicki
First Major Screen Credit: Young Ideas (1943)
4 Videos for Elliott Reid
The Thrill of It All! (1963) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) A Double Life (1947)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
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Biography:

Trained for an acting career at various Manhattan professional children's schools, Elliot Reid was hired for the CBS radio announcer's staff while still a teenager. His work on the airwaves led to Reid's being hired by Orson Welles for the latter's 1937 modern-dress production of {+Julius Caesar}.

Reid was subsequently featured in such Broadway hits as {+My Sister Eileen} and {+Ladies in Retirement}. Uncomfortably cast as a two-fisted hero in his first film, the 1950 anti-Red opus The Whip Hand, Reid was seen to better advantage in comedy roles. Highlights in the actor's film career included the part of Jane Russell's erstwhile suitor in Gentleman Prefer Blondes (1954) and Fred MacMurray's snotty romantic rival in Disney's The Absent-Minded Professor (1960) and Son of Flubber (1963).

In the 1960s, Elliot Reid gained a reputation as a sharp-witted political satirist on such programs as The Jack Paar Program and That Was the Week That Was, fracturing audiences with his on-target impressions of such pundits as Lyndon Johnson and Paul Harvey. Other TV work in Reid's resumé included the role of Darleen Carr's father on the weekly sitcom Miss Winslow and Son (1979).

Even in the later stages of his career, Elliot Reid would occasionally return to his dramatic-radio roots in such audio series as Theater 5 and The CBS Radio Mystery Theater. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.