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Wild Bill Elliott (born Gordon Nance, October 16, 1904 – November 26, 1965) was an American film actor. He specialized in playing the rugged heroes of B Westerns, particularly the Red Ryder series of films.
Bill Elliott. Actor: Across the Sierras. Born Gordon Nance in 1904 on a farm in Pattonsburg, Missouri -- a small town about 60 miles northeast of Kansas City -- the future "Wild Bill Elliott" grew up around horses.
Bill Elliott. Actor: Across the Sierras. Born Gordon Nance in 1904 on a farm in Pattonsburg, Missouri -- a small town about 60 miles northeast of Kansas City -- the future "Wild Bill Elliott" grew up around horses.
In his first starring western feature, IN EARLY ARIZONA (1938), Columbia cast him as a lawman named Whit Gordon and armed him with two pearl-handled six-guns worn the regular way. As in the WILD BILL HICKOK cliffhanger, he was still billed as Gordon Elliott, but that would change to 'Bill Elliott' after a few more films.
Gordon “Wild Bill” Elliott was one of the film industry’s top moneymakers in westerns during the 1940s and 1950s and was voted one of the ten best “Money Making Stars” in the Motion Picture Herald poll from 1942 to.
Wild Bill Elliott (October 16, 1904 – November 26, 1965) was an American film actor. He specialized in playing the rugged heroes of B Westerns, particularly the Red Ryder series of films.
Wild Bill Elliott was an American film actor. He specialized in playing the rugged heroes of B Westerns, particularly the Red Ryder series of films.
Above from L-to-R are Dick Curtis, the moustached Wild Bill Elliott, sidekick Frank Mitchell (standing), Tex Ritter and an unidentified player in a scene from VENGEANCE OF THE WEST (Columbia, 1942), the weakest of the eight Elliott-Ritter adventures.
Elliott repeats the Saunders role in PIONEERS OF THE FRONTIER, THE MAN FROM TUMBLEWEEDS and RETURN OF WILD BILL (all 1940), all climaxing in blazing shootouts and featuring a young comic sidekick played by Dub Taylor.
Apr 18, 2017 · B-Westerns, Western Film Preservation Society, Wild Bill Elliott Red Ryder gallops across the big screen during the April 20th Club meeting. The Red Ryder series had plenty of cowboy stars besides Bill Elliott during its long run, including Don “Red” Barry , Allan “Rocky” Lane and Jim Bannon .
