Bill Elliott: Bill Elliott. Actor: Across the Sierras. 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...
Known For: Across the Sierras (Wild Bill Hickok), Prairie Schooners (Wild Bill Hickok), The Private Life of Helen of Troy (Telemachus(as Gordon Elliott)), Hellfire (Zeb Smith(as William Elliott))