Bob Elliott

• Name — Bob Elliott • Birth Name — Robert Brackett Elliott • Born — 26 March 1923 • Birthplace — Winchester, Massachusetts, U.S. • Died — 2 February 2016 • Place of death — Cundy Harbor, Maine, U.S. • Occupation — Comedian, actor • Years Active — 1946–2008 • Children — 5; including Chris • Relatives — * Abby Elliott (granddaughter) • Bridey Elliott (granddaughter)

Elliott was born in Winchester, Massachusetts, the son of Gail Marguarite (née Brackett), a needleworker, and Fred Russell Elliott, who worked in insurance. Bob Elliott served in the U.S. Army in Northern Europe during World War II. On radio, he appeared in programs with his long-time partner Ray Goulding. These were in different series and time slots over decades, beginning in the late 1940s at Boston's WHDH radio on the show Matinee with Bob and Ray. • Illustration — Bob and Ray in a publicity photo with Tedi Thurman for Monitor, where all were program regulars On television, Elliott and Goulding hosted Bob and Ray from 1951 to 1953. He appeared on a number of other television programs, including Happy Days; Newhart; and Bob & Ray, Jane, Laraine & Gilda in 1979 (with Goulding, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman and Gilda Radner); The David Steinberg Show; and Saturday Night Live. In 1982, Elliott was in Author! Author! as Patrick Dicker. He would star in made-for-TV-Movie's such as Between Time and Timbuktu and FDR: A One Man Show. Elliott also made television commercials, and co-wrote some humor articles with Ray Goulding for Mad Magazine in the 1950s. In 1970, the duo debuted in The Two and Only on Broadway. Bob and Goulding worked together up until Goulding's death in 1990.

In 1990, Elliott portrayed a bank guard in Quick Change. In 1990, he portrayed "Fred Peterson" in the television series Get a Life, which starred Chris as his son. Four years later, the elder Elliott appeared in the Tim Burton production Cabin Boy, playing Chris's father again. In 2004, he appeared in a skit on the Air America radio program The O'Franken Factor. Elliott appeared on radio with Garrison Keillor in The American Radio Company of the Air.

Elliott married Jane Underwood in 1943. They divorced in 1953, having no children. Bob and Ray writer Raymond Knight died in 1953. In 1954, Elliott married Knight's widow, Lee (née Peppers). They were married for 58 years until her death in 2012. They had two sons, Chris Elliott and Bob Elliott Jr., and one daughter, Amy Andersen. They adopted Lee and Ray Knight's two children, Colony Elliott Santangelo and Shannon Elliott. They had 11 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. In 1989, Elliott co-authored son Chris's mock autobiography, Daddy's Boy: A Son's Shocking Account of Life with a Famous Father. Elliott died in Cundy's Harbor, Maine, on February 2, 2016, from throat cancer at the age of 92.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1951–53 — Bob and Ray — Co-Host — 15-minute television series on NBC. • 1972 — Between Time and Timbuktu — Bud Williams, Jr. — * Made-for-TV-Movie * Directed by Fred Barzyk. * Based on a number of works by Kurt Vonnegut. • 1976 — The David Steinberg Show — Episode: "Episode #1.1 (Pilot)" • 1978 — Saturday Night Live — Interviewer — Episode: "Elliott Gould/Peter Tosh" • 1979 — Happy Days — Gil Crawford — Episode: "Here Comes the Bride, Again" • 1981 — The Steve Allen Comedy Hour — Episode: "Episode #1.22" • 1985 — Trapper John, M.D. — Zeke Rainey — Episode: "A False Start" • 1986 — Action Family — The Vendor — * Made-for-TV-Movie * Directed by Gary Weis. • 1987 — FDR: A One Man Show — Make-Up Man — * Made-for-TV-Movie * Directed by Matt Wickline. • 1988 — Coming of Age — Episode: "Hale to the Chief" • Newhart — Bill Loudon — Episode: "I Came, I Saw, I Sat" • 1990–92 — Get a Life — Fred Peterson — Contract role • 1999 — LateLine — Wally Van Horn — Episode: "The Minister of Television" • 2008 — King of the Hill — Edgar Hornsby (voice) — Episode: "Square-Footed Monster" (final role)