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'''Robert Brackett''' "'''Bob'''" '''Elliott''' (born March 26, 1923) is an ] ] and ], formerly one-half of the ] of ]. Elliott was born in ]. He is the father of comedian/actor ] and the grandfather of '']'' cast member ]. |
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'''Robert Brackett''' "'''Bob'''" '''Elliott''' (born March 26, 1923) is an ] ] and ], formerly one-half of the ] of ]. Elliott was born in ]. He is the father of comedian/actor ] and the grandfather of '']'' cast member ]. |
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==Radio and television== |
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On radio, Elliott did countless programs over decades with his long-time sidekick ]. |
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On TV, Elliott and Goulding hosted ''The Bob and Ray'' show from 1951 to 1953. Elliott appeared on a number of other television programs, including '']''; '']''; and ''Bob & Ray, Jane, Laraine & Gilda'' in 1979 (with Goulding, ], ], and ]). He also appeared on radio with ] in '']''. |
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In 1989, Elliott co-authored his son's mock autobiography, ''Daddy's Boy: A Son's Shocking Account of Life with a Famous Father''. The junior Elliott satirized celebrity tell-all biographies by writing completely fictional and highly-sensationalized tales of his childhood as the son of a famous comedian. The concept of the book is that the publisher's attorneys had insisted that Chris allow his father to write every other chapter of the book, so that Bob could rebut any "factual errors" Chris might have made in the preceding chapter. In his first "rebuttal" chapter, Bob professes not to have understood anything Chris wrote; he proceeds to use this and all subsequent chapters to talk about the summer he's having at his vacation cottage in Maine instead, employing the familiar Bob and Ray style of dry wit. |
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In 1990, Elliott portrayed Fred Peterson in the television series '']'', which starred his real-life son ] as his son in the show. |
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In 1994, Elliott appeared in the ]–produced film '']'', where he played his real-life son's father once again. |
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In 2004, he appeared in a skit on the ] radio program '']''. He revived his classic character of field reporter Wally Ballou, interviewing international air travelers delayed at Heathrow Airport by post-9/11 security measures. |
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After the death of ''Bob and Ray'' writer ] in 1953, Bob Elliott married his widow. |
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==External links== |
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==External links== |