Stephen Elliott (November 27, 1918 – May 21, 2005)

He was a very distinguished character actor that always took any role he played very seriously. Most often he could be found playing stern people in positions of power such as judges, doctors, lawyers or politicians… He began on television in 1949 on “Hands of Murder” and went onto appear on such shows as “Actor’s Studio”, “The Philco Television Playhouse”, “Captain Video and His Video Rangers”, “The Secret Storm”, “Inner Sanctum”, “Studio One”, “The Nurses”, “Barnaby Jones”, “Kojak”, “Petrocelli”, “The Tony Randall Show”, “The Bionic Woman”, “The Six Million Dollar Man”, “The Rockford Files”, “Hawaii Five-O”, “Vega$”, “Lou Grant”, “Hart to Hart”, “Nero Wolfe”, “Taxi”, “Quincy M.E.”, “Little House on the Prairie”, “Magnum P.I.”, “Remington Steele”, “Benson”, “St. Elsewhere”, “Murder, She Wrote”, “Highway to Heaven”, “Scarecrow & Mrs. King”, “Hotel”, “Columbo” and “Law & Order.” In more permanent roles he appeared on “As the World Turns” from 1960 to 1962. From 1981 to 1982 he had a recurring role as Angela Channing’s (Jane Wyman) ex-husband Douglas Channing on “Falcon Crest.” He started his recurring role as Texas lawyer Scotty Demarest on “Dallas” in 1980 and made occasional appearances through 1987. In the 1990’s he had a recurring role as Judge Harold Aldrich on “Chicago Hope.” His Broadway career spanned from the 1940’s through the 1960’s…He made his first film appearance in 1954 in Three Hours to Kill. Other more notable film appearances include Arthur in 1981, Beverly Hills Cop in 1984 and Arthur 2: On the Rocks in 1988…In between all of this there was a long list of made for television movies…He retired in 1999 after a fifty year career… In Memoriam Remembers: Stephen Elliott