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Ross Elliott was an American television and film character actor. He began his acting career in the Mercury Theatre, where he performed in The War of the Worlds, Orson Welles' famed radio program.
Birth Name
Elliott Blum
Born
Monday, 18 June 1917
Died
Thursday, 12 August 1999
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | TV Commercial Director | 1986 |
| Scorpion | Sam Douglas | 1986 |
| The A-Team | Doctor - in Operating Room | 1983 |
| Bogie | Howard Hawks | 1980 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | Finchburg Sheriff | 1979 |
| Dallas | Bill Kinney | 1978 |
| Doctors' Private Lives | Lou Wise | 1978 |
| Mr. Too Little | Police Captain | 1978 |
| Lou Grant | Russ Menefee | 1977 |
| Busting Loose | Ludwig | 1977 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | TV Commercial Director | 1986 |
| Scorpion | Sam Douglas | 1986 |
| The A-Team | Doctor - in Operating Room | 1983 |
| Bogie | Howard Hawks | 1980 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | Finchburg Sheriff | 1979 |
| Dallas | Bill Kinney | 1978 |
| Doctors' Private Lives | Lou Wise | 1978 |
| Mr. Too Little | Police Captain | 1978 |
| Lou Grant | Russ Menefee | 1977 |
| Busting Loose | Ludwig | 1977 |
| Gable and Lombard | Lombard's Director | 1976 |
| The Bionic Woman | General Partridge | 1976 |
| Wonder Woman | Dr. Lazaar | 1975 |
| Mobile One | Ed Fielding | 1975 |
| Phyllis | Reporter | 1975 |
| The Blue Knight | Rice / Sgt. Rice | 1975 |
| Ellery Queen | Captain Hill / Judge | 1975 |
| Switch | Chief Mulray | 1975 |
| S.W.A.T. | Roger Forbes | 1975 |
| The Towering Inferno | Deputy Chief #2 | 1974 |
| Shazam! | Sheriff Martin | 1974 |
| Act of Vengeance | Sgt. Long / Sergeant Long | 1974 |
| Little House on the Prairie | Atty. Webb | 1974 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | The Sheriff / Military officer | 1974 |
| Chopper One | Dr. Doyle | 1974 |
| Linda | Officer Ramsey | 1973 |
| Runaway! | Dr. Phillips | 1973 |
| The New Perry Mason | Aaron Hayden | 1973 |
| Barnaby Jones | Dr. Dean Sanders / Marvin Kates / Sheriff McKean / Sheriff | 1973 |
| The Victim | First Policeman / 1st Policeman | 1972 |
| The Waltons | Colonel Usselbury | 1972 |
| The Longest Night | Dr. Steven Clay | 1972 |
| Skyjacked | Harold Shaw | 1972 |
| Kung Fu | Capt. Burns | 1972 |
| Emergency! | Foreman / Harry Grinnell / Harvey / Supervisor | 1972 |
| The Trackers | Captain | 1971 |
| See the Man Run | Ralph Larson | 1971 |
| Paper Man | Sheriff | 1971 |
| The New Dick Van Dyke Show | Dr. Saunders | 1971 |
| Cannon | Police Chief Jacoby | 1971 |
| Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law | D.A. / Maurice Delaney | 1971 |
| O'Hara, U.S. Treasury | Dr. John Snyder | 1971 |
| Longstreet | Police Lieutenant | 1971 |
| Sarge | Commissioner Robert O'Neil | 1971 |
| Crowhaven Farm | Fritz Allen | 1970 |
| Breakout | 1970 | |
| Kelly's Heroes | Booker | 1970 |
| Backtrack! | Sheriff Abbott | 1969 |
| Marcus Welby, M.D. | Bank Manager | 1969 |
| Mod Squad | Sam Brodie / John Jeffers / Howard Sanders / General George Blau / Charlie Tyson / Arnold Sanders | 1968 |
| The Doris Day Show | Mr. Clark | 1968 |
| Here's Lucy | Chuck Stewart | 1968 |
| Adam-12 | Mr. Richmond | 1968 |
| The Name of the Game | Press Officer | 1968 |
| The Outsider | Starnes | 1968 |
| Day of the Evil Gun | Reverend Yearby | 1968 |
| Columbo | Dr. Lansberg | 1968 |
| Ironside | Ben Ohrlich / Dr. Morton / Samuel Cohen | 1967 |
| The Invaders | Hotel Detective / McNally / Prof. Eliot Kramer | 1967 |
| Pistols 'n' Petticoats | Link Lawson | 1966 |
| Mission: Impossible | Paul Morse | 1966 |
| The Felony Squad | William Torrence / Attorney Avery / Carruthers / Norman Braddock / Ogden | 1966 |
| The Time Tunnel | Sheriff / Dr. Brandon | 1966 |
| My Brother the Angel | Police officer | 1965 |
| Tammy | Sheriff | 1965 |
| The Wild Wild West | General Caswell | 1965 |
| The Long, Hot Summer | Stiles | 1965 |
| The F.B.I. | Ray Schuyler / Neal Greenwood / Greene / Graham Carter / Carter Graham / Ben McIntire | 1965 |
| I Spy | Nate | 1965 |
| Please Don't Eat the Daisies | Dr. Brown | 1965 |
| A Man Called Shenandoah | Sheriff | 1965 |
| Wild Seed | James Collinge | 1965 |
| Harris Against the World | Barney Corel | 1964 |
| Gomer Pyle: USMC | General Wells | 1964 |
| 12 O'Clock High | MP Major Bartoli | 1964 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | Chairman's Assistant | 1964 |
| The Lively Set | Ernie Owens | 1964 |
| The Wheeler Dealers | Lawyer | 1963 |
| Mr. Novak | Millard Wright / Roy Daniels | 1963 |
| Petticoat Junction | Mr. Talbot | 1963 |
| The Fugitive | Desk deputy | 1963 |
| Arrest and Trial | Kearney | 1963 |
| The Crawling Hand | Deputy Earl Harrison | 1963 |
| The Thrill of It All | TV Executive | 1963 |
| FBI Code 98 | Special Agent Vernon Lockhart | 1963 |
| Going My Way | Ken Hamlin | 1962 |
| Combat! | Lt. Colonel | 1962 |
| The Lucy Show | The Director | 1962 |
| The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Lt. Geer | 1962 |
| The Virginian | Sheriff Mark Abbott / Sheriff Abbott / Sheriff | 1962 |
| Saints and Sinners | Gil Joyner / Bert Feller | 1962 |
| Sam Benedict | Marty Rhodes | 1962 |
| The Dakotas | Roger Carlson | 1962 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | Dr. Phil Ridley / Dr. Philip Nevins | 1961 |
| Dr. Kildare | Asst. District Attorney | 1961 |
| Hazel | Howard North | 1961 |
| The Dick Powell Theatre | Pete Bordon | 1961 |
| Cain's Hundred | Lieutenant Spencer | 1961 |
| Tammy Tell Me True | Professor Bateman / Prof. Bateman | 1961 |
| Kraft Mystery Theater | Lieutenant White | 1961 |
| The Asphalt Jungle | George | 1961 |
| Mister Ed | Dexter Crowley | 1961 |
| The Best of the Post | Barry | 1960 |
| Angel | Dave | 1960 |
| Stagecoach West | Frank Walker | 1960 |
| Surfside 6 | Frank Eliot | 1960 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | Tom Wilson / Al Saunders | 1960 |
| Michael Shayne | Roger Morgan | 1960 |
| The Barbara Stanwyck Show | Colonel Hawthorne | 1960 |
| National Velvet | Mark Fielding | 1960 |
| Checkmate | Jerry Bronson | 1960 |
| Thriller | Charles Merriweather | 1960 |
| Assignment: Underwater | Capt. Pete Barry | 1960 |
| The Chevy Mystery Show | Dr. Reinecke | 1960 |
| No Greater Love | (as Ross Elliot) | 1960 |
| Never So Few | Colonel Dr. Barry | 1959 |
| Mr. Lucky | Horace Young | 1959 |
| Hawaiian Eye | Martin Rondell / Bill Garrison | 1959 |
| The Rebel | Dr. Mac / Sheriff Barney Cagle | 1959 |
| The Twilight Zone | Doctor / Kramer | 1959 |
| Men Into Space | Dr. George Batton | 1959 |
| Lock Up | Mark Durand / William Tyler | 1959 |
| Laramie | Cpl. Harris / Jack Adams / Tim Collins | 1959 |
| Bonanza | Watkins / Matthew / Harvey Walters | 1959 |
| Tightrope | Charlie Brown | 1959 |
| 21 Beacon Street | Harry Kramer | 1959 |
| Markham | Al Forester / Larry Blanchard | 1959 |
| Border Patrol | Burrows | 1959 |
| The Untouchables | David Mantley | 1959 |
| One Step Beyond | George Warren / Charlie Towne | 1959 |
| Special Agent 7 | Inslow | 1959 |
| Rawhide | Bix Thompson / Carl Myers | 1959 |
| Monster on the Campus | Sgt. Eddie Daniels / Police Sgt. Eddie Daniels | 1958 |
| Flight | Major George Gilman | 1958 |
| The George Burns Show | Interviewer | 1958 |
| The Ann Sothern Show | Grant | 1958 |
| Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | Lieutenant White | 1958 |
| The Rifleman | Ben Johnson | 1958 |
| The Texan | Reverend Kilgore | 1958 |
| The Donna Reed Show | Woody Graham | 1958 |
| Rescue 8 | Bill Miller | 1958 |
| Peter Gunn | Nat Koenig | 1958 |
| Wanted: Dead or Alive | Dr. Matt Conners / Jim Lawton | 1958 |
| As Young as We Are | Bob | 1958 |
| Mike Hammer | Orson Keller | 1958 |
| Sea Hunt | USCG Lt. Dave Tulley / USCG Lt. Pete Gregory / USCG Commander Steve Barnes / USCG Commander Bill Brady | 1958 |
| Colt .45 | Maj. Parker | 1957 |
| Alcoa Theatre | Ralph Stevens | 1957 |
| Trackdown | Brett Hudson / Bill Judson | 1957 |
| The Gray Ghost | Capt. Steven Craig USN | 1957 |
| Goodyear Theatre | Gordon | 1957 |
| Maverick | Mayor Cosgrove | 1957 |
| Perry Mason | George Beaumont | 1957 |
| M Squad | Vincent Hurd / Police Sgt. Smith | 1957 |
| The Thin Man | George Keesler | 1957 |
| Wagon Train | Ralph Carr / Mr. Adams | 1957 |
| Sugarfoot | Jeff Hackett | 1957 |
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective | Bill Reade / Norman Dewitt / Walter Cummings | 1957 |
| The Adventures of McGraw | Lloyd Deforest | 1957 |
| Leave It to Beaver | Mr. Foster / Mr. Hyatt | 1957 |
| The Silent Service | Lt. A. W. Weaver / Irvin / Dave Dayforth / Cmdr. Howard W. Gilmore | 1957 |
| Code 3 | Lt. Ben Driscoll | 1957 |
| Panic! | Mr. Williams | 1957 |
| Chain of Evidence | Bob Bradfield | 1957 |
| Official Detective | Liquor Store Owner | 1957 |
| West Point | Captain dismissing Tracy | 1956 |
| Zane Grey Theatre | Frank Donnelly / Sheriff Walt Devlin | 1956 |
| Wire Service | Roger Rath | 1956 |
| Broken Arrow | Captain Carstairs / Hode Bowers | 1956 |
| The Adventures of Jim Bowie | Jacques / Garreaux | 1956 |
| D-Day the Sixth of June | Maj. Mills | 1956 |
| Indestructible Man | Paul Lowe | 1956 |
| Tarantula | Joe Burch | 1955 |
| State Trooper | Bob Milner / Detective Wes James / Johnny Henderson | 1956 |
| The Toughest Man Alive | Security Agent Cal York | 1955 |
| Matinee Theatre | Frank Walton | 1955 |
| Fury | Richard Landon | 1955 |
| Crossroads | Defense Attorney | 1955 |
| The People's Choice | the Photographer | 1955 |
| Cheyenne | Ernie Ransom / Reed Kingsley / Sam Wilson | 1955 |
| Navy Log | Bill Bridgeman / March | 1955 |
| Gunsmoke | Grant / Lee / Conway | 1955 |
| The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp | Virgil Earp | 1955 |
| Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre | Dr. Captain David Sherman | 1955 |
| Science Fiction Theatre | Howard Evans | 1955 |
| Women's Prison | Don Jensen | 1955 |
| Stage 7 | Major / Charles Bowman | 1955 |
| Carolina Cannonball | Don Mack | 1955 |
| The Millionaire | Sheriff Jack Driscoll | 1955 |
| TV Reader's Digest | Don's Father | 1955 |
| Soldiers of Fortune | Rex Laird / Frank | 1955 |
| The Star and the Story | Barrington Howard | 1955 |
| African Manhunt | Rene Carvel | 1955 |
| The Wonderful World of Disney: Presented by Disney+ | Prosecutor | 1954 |
| Climax! | Greg Borchers | 1954 |
| Studio 57 | Howard / Brent Cameron | 1954 |
| Lassie | Steve Talbot / Joe Smith / Forest Service Supervisor / Chuck | 1954 |
| It's a Great Life | Joe | 1954 |
| Dragnet | Intelligence Officer | 1954 |
| Massacre Canyon | Pvt. George Davis / Private George W. Davis | 1954 |
| Public Defender | Sgt. Ken Brady | 1954 |
| Ma and Pa Kettle at Home | Pete Crosby | 1954 |
| Waterfront | Reece | 1954 |
| Tumbleweed | Seth Blanden / Seth Blandon | 1953 |
| Colonel Humphrey Flack | Fletcher | 1953 |
| The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse | Mark Blayne | 1953 |
| The Loretta Young Show | Bill Harmon / Bill Stevens / Father Pius / Murphy / Ned Tucker / Robert Hunter / Sergeant Tuttle | 1953 |
| City Detective | Mitch / Horster / Chuck Logan | 1953 |
| The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms | George Ritchie | 1953 |
| Problem Girls | John Page | 1953 |
| General Electric Theater | Joseph | 1953 |
| I Married Joan | Steve | 1952 |
| Mr. & Mrs. North | Doc Randall | 1952 |
| The Ford Television Theatre | Bob Hayden / Pete Hardesty | 1952 |
| Cavalcade of America | Zack Garson / Theodore Judah / Ralph Kerchum / James Otis | 1952 |
| Death Valley Days | Temple Houston / Luke Bidwell / James Logan | 1952 |
| Four Star Playhouse | Hofer / Dr. Rogers / Bert Tolin | 1952 |
| Affair in Trinidad | Corpse of Neal Emery | 1952 |
| Campbell Summer Soundstage | (archive footage) | 1952 |
| Loan Shark | Norm | 1952 |
| Woman in the Dark | Father Tony Morello | 1952 |
| Chicago Calling | Jim | 1951 |
| Desert of Lost Men | Dr. Jim Haynes | 1951 |
| I Love Lucy | Publicity Man / Ross the Director / Ross the Publicity Agent / Ross, Publicity Agent | 1951 |
| Schlitz Playhouse | Jess Omega / Tony Beddoe / John Mason / Melvin / Ronnie Simpson | 1951 |
| Hot Lead | Dave Collins | 1951 |
| Sky King | Frank Carney / Jack Cramer | 1951 |
| Racket Squad | Harvey Brewster | 1951 |
| I Can Get It for You Wholesale | Ray | 1951 |
| Storm Warning | Glen | 1951 |
| The Living Christ Series | Elam | 1951 |
| Woman on the Run | Frank Johnson | 1950 |
| The Jack Benny Program | Freddie - Jack's TV Director / Fred / Director / Fred - Jack's TV Director / Freddie - Jack's Director / Jack's TV Director | 1950 |
| Last of the Buccaneers | Pirate / Fanuche - Pirate | 1950 |
| The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show | The Luggage Clerk / The Captain / Ned Brown / Mr. Randolph / Joe / Jack Hellman / Daryl Dittenfest | 1950 |
| Big Town | Jackson Tucker | 1950 |
| Three Secrets | Reporter | 1950 |
| Chinatown at Midnight | Eddie Marsh | 1949 |
| Cody of the Pony Express | Irv - Henchman | 1950 |
| Dynamite Pass | Stryker - Henchman / Stryker | 1950 |
| Tyrant of the Sea | Mr. Howard Palmer | 1950 |
| Gun Crazy | Detective | 1950 |
| The Lone Ranger | Deputy Lawson / Jeff Hope | 1949 |
| The Gal Who Took the West | Cowboy | 1949 |
| Barbary Pirate | Preble's First Officer | 1949 |
| The Crooked Way | Coroner | 1949 |
| Streets of San Francisco | Clevens | 1949 |
| Fireside Theatre | Steve | 1949 |
| Studio One | Phil Coyne | 1948 |
| Angel on the Amazon | Frank Lane | 1948 |
| The Burning Cross | The Combative Striker / The Murdered Picket | 1947 |
| This Is the Army | Officer in Magician Skit | 1943 |
