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Elliott Lewis

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Biography

Born

11/28/1917, New York, New York, USA

Died

5/23/1990

Birth Name

Gender

Male

Credits

Guest Star (2)

Role
- Big Eddie
  Judge Elliott
  - S 1: Ep 2 One Nation Invisible
    8/30/75
- Four Star Revue
  Himself
  - S 4: Ep 3 November 28, 1953
    11/28/53
Writer (2)

Role
- Remington Steele
  Writer
  - S 4: Ep 9 Dancer, Prancer, Donner and Steele
    12/17/85
- Klondike
  Writer
  - S 1: Ep 6 Swoger's Mule
    11/21/60
Director (7)

Role
- Mayberry R.F.D.
  Director
  - S 3: Ep 22 Howard the Swinger
    3/1/71
- The New Andy Griffith Show
  Director
  - S 1: Ep 4 Town Square
    1/29/71
- Petticoat Junction
  Director
  - S 7: Ep 14 But I've Never Been in Erie, PA
    12/27/69
  - S 7: Ep 13 The Golden Spike Ceremony
    12/20/69
  - S 7: Ep 12 Goodbye, Mr. Chimp (2)
    12/13/69
  - S 7: Ep 11 Kathy Jo's First Birthday (1)
    12/6/69
  - S 7: Ep 10 The Camping Trip
    11/29/69
  - + 20 More Credits
- The Mothers-In-Law
  Director
  - S 2: Ep 26 The Not-So-Grand Opera
    4/13/69
  - S 2: Ep 25 The Charge of the Wife Brigade
    4/6/69
  - S 2: Ep 24 Show Business is No Business
    3/30/69
  - S 2: Ep 23 Take Her, He's Mine
    3/23/69
  - S 2: Ep 22 Two on the Aisle
    3/16/69
  - + 30 More Credits
- The Case of the Dangerous Robin
  Director
  - S 1: Ep 30 Design for Death
    5/8/61
  - S 1: Ep 29 The Patient Died
    5/1/61
  - S 1: Ep 25 Amsterdam Lapidary
    4/3/61
- Klondike
  Director
  - S 1: Ep 7 Sure Thing, Men
    11/28/60
  - S 1: Ep 6 Swoger's Mule
    11/21/60
- This Man Dawson
  Director
  - S 1: Ep 6 This Man Dawson: Episode 6
    12/31/59
Associate Producer (1)

Role
- Climax!
  Associate Producer
  - S 1: Ep 7 An Error in Chemistry
    12/2/54
  - S 1: Ep 3 Casino Royale
    10/21/54
Producer (5)

Role
- O.K. Crackerby
  Producer
  - S 1: Ep 17 Operation Susan
    1/6/66
  - S 1: Ep 14 Bitter Ravioli
    12/16/65
  - S 1: Ep 13 Crackerby and the Cuckoo Game
    12/9/65
  - S 1: Ep 12 Crackerby Stops the Press
    12/2/65
  - S 1: Ep 11 Ol' Sam
    11/25/65
  - + 6 More Credits
- The Lucy Show
  Producer
  - S 2: Ep 8 Lucy Decides to Redecorate
    11/18/63
  - S 2: Ep 7 Lucy and the Bank Scandal
    11/11/63
  - S 2: Ep 6 Lucy Goes Duck Hunting
    11/7/63
  - S 2: Ep 5 Lucy and the Safe Cracker
    10/28/63
  - S 2: Ep 4 Lucy Gets Locked in the Vault
    10/21/63
  - + 30 More Credits
- Guestward Ho!
  Producer
- This Man Dawson
  Producer
  - S 1: Ep 6 This Man Dawson: Episode 6
    12/31/59
- The Court of Last Resort
  Producer
  - S 1: Ep 26 The Allen Cutler Case
    4/11/58
  - S 1: Ep 25 The Todd-Loomis Case
    4/4/58
  - S 1: Ep 24 The Joel Sheldon Case
    3/28/58
  - S 1: Ep 23 The Mary Morales Case
    3/21/58
  - S 1: Ep 22 The Stephen Lowell Case
    3/14/58
  - + 21 More Credits
Teleplay (1)

Role
- The Colbys
  Teleplay
  - S 2: Ep 21 Return Engagement
    3/5/87
Executive Producer (1)

Role
- The Lucy Show
  Executive Producer
  - S 2: Ep 28 Lucy Enters a Baking Contest
    4/27/64
  - S 2: Ep 27 Lucy Is a Process Server
    4/20/64
  - S 2: Ep 26 Lucy and the Scout Trip
    3/30/64
  - S 2: Ep 25 Lucy Goes into Politics
    3/23/64
  - S 2: Ep 24 Lucy Meets a Millionaire
    3/16/64
  - + 14 More Credits

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Trivia
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- During the fall of 1953, two of Elliott Lewis' radio programs were scheduled back-to-back on CBS. He tried an experiment, dramatizing the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on Crime Classics and followed it with a staging of Our American Cousin (the play Lincoln was attending when he was shot) on On Stage. The experiment was deemed unsuccessful, and CBS President William Paley advised Lewis to never try it again.
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- Elliott Lewis was introduced to his first wife, Cathy Lewis, by a mutual friend who thought it would be funny as they had the same last name.
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- In 1958, Elliott Lewis produced an unsold television pilot called Stage Father, a comedy starring Ed Wynn as a former vaudeville performer.
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- Elliott Lewis: I never enjoyed acting," Lewis once observed in an interview. I was able to do it, because it's a trick, and it's a trick that somehow I knew how to do, without any training.
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- Elliott Lewis: (on his brief experience teaching at UCLA) I learned that there are commercial and sustaining shows in universities, too. The academic life is not as honest as I'd hoped it would be.
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- Elliott Lewis: What I want most is to have five shows a week on which I produce and direct. I have three now. Next fall maybe I'll have five. I just can't sit still.
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