
Dick 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.
211 acting credits
Acting · 211

The Andy Griffith Show
1960

Maverick
1957

Rawhide
1959

I Love Lucy
1951

The Red Skelton Show
1951

Sugarfoot
1957

The Real McCoys
1957

It's a Wonderful Life
1946
The Gale Storm Show
1956

High Noon
1952

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939

Gun Crazy
1950

Man of the West
1958

The Mortal Storm
1940

Manpower
1941

Another Thin Man
1939

Rancho Notorious
1952

Silver River
1948

Act of Violence
1949

Christmas in Connecticut
1945
Television: The First Fifty Years
1999

The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936

Stage Mother
1933

Adventure
1945

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939

You Only Live Once
1937

Hunt the Man Down
1950

Bombers B-52
1957

Dillinger
1945

Let Us Live
1939

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939

Deadline at Dawn
1946

The Wagons Roll at Night
1941

Desperate
1947

Driftwood
1947

Abilene Town
1946

All Through the Night
1942

Montana Belle
1952

Saratoga Trunk
1945

The Devil Thumbs a Ride
1947

Boy Trouble
1939

The Clock
1945

Singapore
1947

Albuquerque
1948

Dr. Socrates
1935

Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943

Road to Happiness
1941

The Princess Comes Across
1936

Four Mothers
1941

China Passage
1937

The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
1939

Union Station
1950

Melody Ranch
1940

Frontier Marshal
1939

Flamingo Road
1949

Two Girls on Broadway
1940

Park Row
1952

I Love You Again
1940

Omar Khayyam
1957

Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940

Silly Billies
1936

The Jury's Secret
1938

The Man Who Walked Alone
1945

A Man Betrayed
1941

Go West Young Man
1936

Picture Snatcher
1933

Back Street
1941

Wanted: Jane Turner
1936

Go, Johnny, Go!
1959

Dangerous Money
1946

International Settlement
1938

When Strangers Marry
1944

The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1942

Up in the Air
1940

Parnell
1937

Bunco Squad
1950

Next Time I Marry
1938

Witness to Murder
1954

A Likely Story
1947

Little Miss Broadway
1938

Rock Island Trail
1950

Springtime in the Rockies
1942

I'm from Missouri
1939

The Joker is Wild
1957

After Midnight with Boston Blackie
1943

Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
1939

You Can't Escape Forever
1942

Night Unto Night
1949

She Knew All the Answers
1941

Central Airport
1933

The Sainted Sisters
1948

Man from God's Country
1958

Helldorado
1935

Hi, Beautiful
1944

Meet the Stewarts
1942

Start Cheering
1938

Thunder Mountain
1947

Double Jeopardy
1955

Under Western Stars
1938

Main Street After Dark
1945

The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939

Girls of the Big House
1945

Li'l Abner
1940

The Petrified Forest
1955

Florian
1940

Silent Partner
1944

Talk About a Lady
1946

Behind The Headlines
1937

Fort Defiance
1951

Her Master's Voice
1936

I Stole a Million
1939

Sunset in Wyoming
1941

We're Rich Again
1934

Sudden Money
1939

Pack Up Your Troubles
1939

Money Madness
1948

Break of Hearts
1935

Criminal Investigator
1942

Heading for Heaven
1947

Quick Money
1937

Days of Wine and Roses
1958

Don't Knock The Rock
1956

Down on the Farm
1938

Scattergood Survives a Murder
1942

Tenth Avenue Kid
1938

The Powers Girl
1943

Laugh Your Blues Away
1942

The Pittsburgh Kid
1941

Star in the Night
1945

The Big Game
1936

Mr. Moto's Gamble
1938

Prison Farm
1938

She Wrote the Book
1946

The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1937

Breakfast in Hollywood
1946

Last of the Desperados
1955

Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle
1950

So's Your Uncle
1943

Behind the News
1940

That Texas Jamboree
1946

Vogues of 1938
1937

The Twinkle In God's Eye
1955

High School Hero
1946

Partners in Time
1946

Rose of the Yukon
1949

Brilliant Marriage
1936

Undercover Agent
1939

Homicide for Three
1948

Women Without Names
1940

The Dark Horse
1946

A Man to Remember
1938

The Tilted Tenderfoot
1955

Gangs of the Waterfront
1945

Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride
1940

Wintertime
1943

Whispering Footsteps
1943

Purity Squad
1945

One Foot in Heaven
1941

Ginger
1947

All Women Have Secrets
1939

High Tension
1936

Silver Skates
1943

Fall Guy
1945

Three Girls About Town
1941

Looking for Danger
1957

Hide and Shriek
1938

Across the Badlands
1950

Rainbow Over Texas
1946

Rusty Leads the Way
1948

Mr. District Attorney
1941

Woman Unafraid
1934

Swing Out the Blues
1943
Home Boner
1939

Hot Cargo
1946
The Scooper Dooper
1947

Men of the Hour
1935

The Merry Frinks
1934

Nobody's Darling
1943

Goin' to Town
1944

The Main Street Kid
1948

You Drive Me Crazy
1945

Show Business
1944

The Worst Woman in Paris?
1933

Trail of the Yukon
1949

Adventures of Kitty O'Day
1945

Man From Headquarters
1942

Young Bill Hickok
1940

So's Your Aunt Emma!
1942

Slippy McGee
1948

Flame Of Stamboul
1951

Singin' Spurs
1948

Feudin' Rhythm
1949

One Man's Law
1940
Doctor Jim
1947

Up In Smoke
1957

Educating Father
1936

Three Hearts for Julia
1943

Western Pacific Agent
1950
Shivers
1934

Please
1933

Ladies Crave Excitement
1935

Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
1944

Feathertop
1955

Sprucin' Up
1935

Follow That Blonde
1946

The Silver Bandit
1950

Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
1943

Neighborhood House
1936
Truth Aches
1939

Three for Bedroom C
1952

Meet the O'Briens
1954