---
name: "Elliott Reid"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/elliott-reid"
fi1m_id: "elliott-reid"
imdb_id: "nm0717256"
tmdb_id: 11168
wikidata_id: "Q2065893"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "16 January 1920"
died: "21 June 2013"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T06:34:59.296007+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Elliott Reid

## Identity

Elliott Reid

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/elliott-reid
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** elliott-reid
- **IMDb ID:** nm0717256
- **TMDB ID:** 11168
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2065893
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Reid, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2065893, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0717256/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11168

Actor. Born 16 January 1920 in New York City, New York, USA. Died 21 June 2013.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 16 January 1920, New York City, New York, USA
- **Died:** 21 June 2013
- **Also known as:** Edgeworth Blair Reid, Elliot Reid, Ted Reid, Edgeworth Blair "Elliott" Reid
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Reid, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2065893, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0717256/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11168

## 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.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Gentlemen Prefer Blondes* (1953), Fi1m 82, as Ernie Malone — [page](https://film.one/film/gentlemen-prefer-blondes.md)

## Complete filmography (58)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Maybe This Time* (1995), series, as Henry
- *Seinfeld* (1989), series, as Mr. Armstrong — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/tv/seinfeld.md)
- *Young Einstein* (1988), as Asylum Guard
- *Designing Women* (1986), series, Actor
- *Murder, She Wrote* (1984), series, as Jonathan Keeler
- *One in a Million* (1980), series, Actor
- *The Facts of Life* (1979), series, Actor
- *Miss Winslow and Son* (1979), series, Actor
- *Tales of the Unexpected* (1979), series, as Dick Archer
- *Heaven Can Wait* (1978), as Waiter (uncredited) — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/heaven-can-wait.md)
- *On Our Own* (1977), series, as Klaus von Hildenberg
- *The Love Boat* (1977), series, Writer
- *Doc* (1975), series, Actor
- *Barney Miller* (1975), series, as Wayne Boley
- *Lotsa Luck* (1973), series, as Dr. Schrager
- *Temperatures Rising* (1972), series, as Driscoll
- *Charlie Crowfoot and the Coati Mundi* (1971), as Narrator
- *All in the Family* (1971), series, as Harold Tannen — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/all-in-the-family.md)
- *The Odd Couple* (1970), series, as Gerard Ferguson
- *Love, American Style* (1969), series, as Paul, Dr. Parkhurst
- *Some Kind of a Nut* (1969), as Gardner Anders
- *Here's Lucy* (1968), series, as Harvey Gaynes · Director, Emcee
- *Blackbeard's Ghost* (1968), as TV Commentator
- *Follow Me, Boys!* (1966), as Ralph Hastings
- *The Munsters* (1964), series, Actor
- *A Scrap of Paper and a Piece of String* (1964), Actor
- *Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?* (1963), as Tom Edwards
- *Move Over, Darling* (1963), as Dr. Herman Schlick
- *The Wheeler Dealers* (1963), as Leonard
- *The Thrill of It All* (1963), as Mike Palmer
- *Son of Flubber* (1963), as Shelby Ashton
- *The Lucy Show* (1962), series, as Ross Dowd, Oscar Kurtzmann
- *The Alfred Hitchcock Hour* (1962), series, as Dave Dennis
- *The Gertrude Berg Show* (1961), series, Actor
- *The Absent-Minded Professor* (1961), as Shelby Ashton
- *The Roaring 20's* (1960), series, Actor
- *Peter Loves Mary* (1960), series, Actor
- *Surfside 6* (1960), series, Actor
- *Inherit the Wind* (1960), as Prosecutor Tom Davenport
- *Perry Mason* (1957), series, as Terry Blanchard
- *Dark Meeting* (1956), as Barney
- *Holiday Affair* (1955), as Carl Davis
- *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1955), series, as Tom Smith
- *The Millionaire* (1955), series, as Philip Sargent, Douglas Thorp
- *Climax!* (1954), series, as Scotty Henderson
- *Woman's World* (1954), as Tony Andrews
- *Vicki* (1953), as Steve Christopher
- *Letter to Loretta* (1953), series, as Mark Waxman
- *Gentlemen Prefer Blondes* (1953), as Ernie Malone — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/gentlemen-prefer-blondes.md)
- *Four Star Playhouse* (1952), series, as Barney
- *I Love Lucy* (1951), series, as Ed Warren
- *The Whip Hand* (1951), as Matt Corbin
- *Lux Video Theatre* (1950), series, as Lt. Livingston
- *Sierra* (1950), as Duke Lafferty
- *Robert Montgomery Presents* (1950), series, as Alistair Cochran
- *A Double Life* (1947), as Actor in "A Gentleman's Gentleman"
- *The Story of Dr. Wassell* (1944), as William 'Andy' Anderson
- *Young Ideas* (1943), as Jeff Evans

## Gallery

- ![Publicity photograph of actor Elliott Reid. (1953)](https://film.one/media/person/3872159/gallery-a9556490cbf5.jpg) Publicity photograph of actor Elliott Reid. (1953) — Phtographer not credited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Elliott_Reid_1953.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Publicity photograph of actor Elliott Reid. (1953)](https://film.one/media/person/3872159/gallery-240fed5882ed.jpg) Publicity photograph of actor Elliott Reid. (1953) — 20th Century Fox / Photographer not credited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Elliott_Reid_20th_Century_Fox_player%2C_Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_1953.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Elliott Reid and Sarah Marshall star as the parents of a young unwed mother, in "Miss Winslow & Son," new comedy series, to be broadcast WEDNESDAYS (8:30-9: (1979)](https://film.one/media/person/3872159/gallery-8814d27f3580.jpg) Elliott Reid and Sarah Marshall star as the parents of a young unwed mother, in "Miss Winslow & Son," new comedy series, to be broadcast WEDNESDAYS (8:30-9: (1979) — CBS Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Elliott_Reid_and_Sarah_Marshall_%22Miss_Winslow_%26_Son%22_%281979_CBS_press_photo%29.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Elliott Reid](https://film.one/media/person/3872159/gallery-17f5d942f099.jpg) Elliott Reid — Image via TMDB
- ![Elliott Reid](https://film.one/media/person/3872159/gallery-a02648bc64c2.jpg) Elliott Reid — Image via TMDB

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