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Actor Born: January 16, 1920 in New York, NY Biography:Trained for an acting career at various Manhattan professional children's schools, Elliot Reid was hired for the CBS radio announcer's staff while still a teenager. His work on the airwaves led to Reid's being hired by "Orson Welles" for the latter's 1937 modern-dress production of Julius Caesar. Reid was subsequently featured in such Broadway hits as My Sister Eileen and Ladies in Retirement. Uncomfortably cast as a two-fisted hero in his first film, the 1950 anti-Red opus "The Whip Hand", Reid was seen to better advantage in comedy roles. Highlights in the actor's film career included the part of "Jane Russell"'s erstwhile suitor in "Gentleman Prefer Blondes" (1954) and "Fred MacMurray"'s snotty romantic rival in Disney's "The Absent-Minded Professor" (1960) and "Son of Flubber" (1963). In the 1960s, Elliot Reid gained a reputation as a sharp-witted political satirist on such programs as "The Jack... Full Biography
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