Elliott Reid

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Elliott Reid (born January 16, 1920 in New York City - June 21, 2013 in Studio City , California ) was an American actor and screenwriter .

life and career

Elliott Reid was born in New York City, the son of an artist and a banker. He received acting lessons as a child. At the age of 15 he worked as a radio announcer on popular programs such as The March of Time and Orson Welles ' The Mercury Theater on the Air . He was part of the "golden era of radio", which is so called because the majority of Americans listened to radio programs every evening. In his later career, Reid remained connected to various radio play series on the radio, but soon turned to theater and film. Between 1937 and 1938 he played on Broadway in the famous stage production Julius Caesar , directed by Welles, which had a major influence on the later performances of this piece. In 1940 Reid made his film debut in The Ramparts We Watch . Other film roles followed, for example in Cecil B. DeMille's film drama Dr. Wassell's escape from Java at the side of Gary Cooper .

He probably preferred his best-known film appearance in Howard Hawks ' classic comedy Blondes (1953), in which he traced Ernie Malone Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe as private detective . He also played Fred MacMurray's ill-tempered rival in the Disney comedies The Flying Pauker (1961) and The Pauker Can't Quit (1962). He also appeared as a supporting actor in two comedies starring Doris Day and James Garner . Comedies were usually his cinematic home, but in Stanley Kramer's court drama Who Sows the Wind (1960) he also had a more serious role as prosecutor for a teacher who teaches evolution in America in the 1920s. On television, Reid appeared as a "sharp-tongued political satirist" on various television shows. He imitated Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy among others . At Kennedy's birthday party in 1962, Reid performed his Kennedy parody in front of his eyes, which the president is said to have found very funny.

After 1970, Reid's film and television offerings were usually sparse, mostly he only took on minor roles. In the early 1980s he worked as a screenwriter on episodes of the television series Lou Grant and Love Boat . For his writing on the comedy series After MASH , he was nominated for a 1985 Writers Guild of America Prize. He took his last role in 1995 in the series Maybe This Time . In the years before his death, Reid was an elderly contemporary witness and a popular interviewee for documentaries.

Elliott Reid died of heart failure in June 2013 at the age of 93.

Filmography (selection)

As an actor (selection)

As a screenwriter

  • 1981: Lou Grant (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1981: Love Boat (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1982: Love, Sidney (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1983–1984: After MASH (TV series, 3 episodes)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elliot Reid at Allmovie
  2. ^ Julius Caesar at the Internet Broadway Database
  3. ↑ Elliot Reid at Allmovie
  4. ^ Obituary for Elliot Reid in the New York Times
  5. ^ President Kennedy's Birthday Salute at the Internet Movie Database
  6. ^ Elliott Reid's Awards at the Internet Movie Database
  7. ^ Obituary for Elliott Reid in Hollywood Reporter
personal data
SURNAME Reid, Elliott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH June 21th 2013
Place of death Studio City , California