Starter of this subject: Mike Mackey
Last post in this subject: 7/24/2003
Messages in this subject: 4
| Mike Mackey | 7/24/2003 4 replies |
|
I'm looking for biographical data on actor, writer, director producer Elliot Lewis. Also photographs. Can anyone help me?
Thank you |
| RAY KRIEGER | 10/1/2003 1 replies |
|
I offer the following from memory, which is not very much information, but hopefully will be of some use.
I believe that he was married for a time to Kathy(Cathy?) Lewis who was a radio actress. I also remember Elliot Lewis as being a fairly omnipresent radio actor. If I am not mistaken, Elliot Lewis portrayed Frankie Remley on the Phil Harris radio shows. Remley was supposedly often drunk, and was portraying someone in Phil Harris's band. They also (husband and wife) appeared together on some radio dramas. These bits are probably known by you already. Can you provide any brief overview of what you know about him? I seem to remember him fairly well. |
| ed kienzler | 11/17/2003 0 replies |
| ELLIOTT LEWIS APPEARED ON OTR SHOWS INCLUDING SILVER THEATRE, SAM SPADE, THE CASEBOOK OF GREGORY HOOD, I LOVE A MYSTERY ,AND ONE MAN'S FAMILY, SUSPENSE,BROADWAY IS MY BEAT,KNICKERBOCKER PLAYHOUSE AND WAS FEATURED WITH HIS WIFE KATHY ON THE PROGRAM "ON STAGE" WHICH WAS ON CBS FROM 1952-54.HE ALSO BOUGHT BACK RADIO PLAYS IN THE 70'S ON THE SEARS PLAYHOUSE. |
| Lou | 10/2/2003 0 replies |
|
Elliott Lewis
Born: November 28, 1917 in New York City
First radio show: KHJ, 1936 "The Life Of Simon Bolivar"
|
| Hal Evans | 1/29/2005 0 replies |
| Ohmygosh, I may have posted a reply in the wrong box! So here goes again. Elliot Lewis can be seen in a movie! He got a lot of screen time in Ma & Pa Kettle Go To Town, which is set in New York City. I love this movie because it appears to actually be shot in Manhattan. Movie came out in 1950. So now, Elliot Lewis plays a comic mob boss in a zoot suit! I think he is duded up like that to resemble Al Capp's comic strip villain Evil Eye Fleagle. Movie also has Jim Backus, the cartoon voice of Mr. McGoo, as a comic mobster as well. Meg Randall, who did a lot of OTR radio work, plays the sweet young thing who is married to Richard Long, the Kettle's oldest son. And Ray Collins, Detective Tragg in TV's Perry Mason, plays a loveable hometown character. He looks about the sam |