Elliott Reid, a radio character actor also familiar to television and movie audiences and probably best remembered as Jane Russell’s love interest in the 1953 film “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” died on Friday, 21 Jun 2013, in Studio City, Calif. He was 93. Edgeworth Blair Reid was born on January 16, 1920, the son of Christine Challenger Reid, an artist and Blair Reid, a banker.
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In 1935, he debuted on the radio program
The March of Time, which led to him working regularly on radio dramas during the Golden Age of radio. Early on he took "Elliott" as his stage name. His credits include among other, many Orson Welles-directed stage and radio productions, such as
The Mercury Theatre on the Air and also acted on
The Cavalcade of America, Theatre Guild on the Air and the
CBS Radio Mystery Theater. In some early performances he was credited as "Ted Reid."
