Born Gordon Nance in 1904 on a farm in Pattonsburg, Missouri -- a small town about 60 miles northeast of Kansas City -- the future "Wild Bill Elliott" grew up around horses. His father was a commissioner at the Kansas City Stockyards. and at age 16 Elliott won a first-place ribbon in that city's annual "American Royal Horse and Livestock Show." After a move to California...See full bio »
Unsold pilots: In the mid-'50s he did a TV pilot for a proposed western series called "Marshal of Trail City" and another one for another series to be called "Parson of the West", in which he would play a frontier minister.