Stephen Elliott
Highest Rated: 100% The Hospital (1971)
Lowest Rated: 13% Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988)
Birthday: Nov 27, 1918
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
A heralded stage actor with a Drama Desk Award to his credit, Stephen Elliott first broke into television in his early 30s, but did not find success in film until his 50s. He first entered the world of theater in 1940, joining the New York Neighborhood Playhouse where he trained with famed technique instructor Sanford Meisner. Though Elliott left for a stint with the United States Merchant Marines during World War II, he was back and on Broadway by 1945. Two years later, he married stage actress Nancy Chase, but after two children and thirteen years of marriage, the pair divorced in 1960. Before long he met actress Alice Hirson, but the pair would not marry until 1980. Despite a long string of long list of film and TV appearances, Elliott had failed to make much of an impression. It wasn't until 1981 that he earned notice for his film work, when Elliott played the unhinged mobster Burt Johnson in the hit comedy "Arthur," which starred Dudley Moore as a perennially drunk playboy. Due to the film's success and the praise directed at Elliott, he was more prolific in TV over film appearances, earning solid recurring roles on the California-set primetime soap opera "Falcon Crest," the acclaimed medical drama "St. Elsewhere," and the long-running hospital-set drama series "Chicago Hope" before retiring in 1999. Elliott died six years later of congestive heart failure at the age of 86.
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Stephen Elliott
Filmography
Movies
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33% |
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Taking Care of Business | Walter Bentley (Character) | $20.0M | 1990 |
13% |
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Arthur 2: On the Rocks | Burt Johnson (Character) | $14.1M | 1988 |
No Score Yet |
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love | Elliot Moore (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet |
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Walk Like a Man | Walter Welmont (Character) | $186.9K | 1987 |
No Score Yet |
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Assassination | Fitzroy (Character) | $5.5M | 1987 |
No Score Yet |
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Roadhouse 66 | Sam (Character) | - | 1984 |
83% |
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Beverly Hills Cop | Police Chief Hubbard (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet |
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Prototype | Dr. Arthur Jarrett (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet |
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Kiss Me Goodbye | Edgar (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Body, My Child | Dr. Gallagher (Character) | - | 1982 |
86% |
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Arthur | Burt Johnson (Character) | - | 1981 |
92% |
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Cutter's Way | J. J. Cord (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy | Joseph P. Kennedy (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love | Abe Kaufman (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet |
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Can You Hear the Laughter? The Story of Freddie Prinze | Jonas (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ordeal of Patty Hearst | Randolph Hearst (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mrs. R's Daughter | James Karp (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Overboard | Shawn (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy | Joseph Kennedy Sr. (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Invasion of Johnson County | Col. Van Horn (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The November Plan | Harold Delaney (Character) | - | 1976 |
43% |
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Report to the Commissioner | Police Commissioner (Character) | - | 1975 |
66% |
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Death Wish | Police Commissioner (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Gun | Art Hilliard (Character) | - | 1974 |
100% |
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The Hospital | Dr. John Sundstrom (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Street of Sinners | Unknown (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Canyon Crossroads | Larson (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
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Three Hours to Kill | Sheriff Ben East (Character) | - | 1954 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chicago Hope | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995-1996 1999 |
No Score Yet | 83% | Law & Order | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1991 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Falcon Crest | Douglas Channing (Character) | 1981-1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dear John | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1989 |
No Score Yet | 81% | Columbo | Carl Donner (Guest Star) | 1975 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hotel | George Stanton (Guest Star) | 1986-1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fall Guy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | 66% | Highway to Heaven | Mr. Armstrong (Guest Star) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Dr. Samuel 'Sam' Garver (Guest Star) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Benson | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1984 |
No Score Yet | 95% | Magnum, P.I. | Rear Admiral Philip Wheeler (Guest Star) | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Little House on the Prairie | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nero Wolfe | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981 |
No Score Yet | 62% | Taxi | Ed McKenzie (Guest Star) | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dallas | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hart to Hart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | How the West Was Won | Zachary Knight (Guest Star) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rockford Files | Dr. Herbert Brinkman (Guest Star) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Six Million Dollar Man | Morgan Grayland (Guest Star) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bionic Woman | Duke (Guest Star) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Executive Suite | Unknown (Character) | 1976-1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bronk | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Petrocelli | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kojak | Tyler Meadows (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barnaby Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of Tomorrow | Unknown (Character) | 1952-1953 |