Biography
Elliott Reid was an American actor whose career spanned radio, stage, film and television. Born Edgeworth Blair Reid in New York City on 16 January 1920, he began working in radio as a teenager on The March of Time and joined Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre, making his Broadway debut in its 1937 production of Julius Caesar.
His best-known film role was as private detective Ernie Malone in the 1953 musical comedy Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. He also appeared in Inherit the Wind (1960) as Prosecutor Tom Davenport and as Shelby Ashton in the Disney comedy The Absent-Minded Professor (1961). Reid worked extensively in television, with guest roles in series including I Love Lucy, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Seinfeld and Murder, She Wrote. He died in Studio City, California, on 21 June 2013.
