Clyde E. Elliott
Personal information
- Known for
- Directing
- Known credits
- 7
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- July 23, 1885
- Died
- June 12, 1959
- Place of birth
- Ord, Nebraska, USA
Biography
Clyde Ernest Elliott (July 23, 1885 – June 12, 1959) was an American motion picture director, producer, and writer. He is best known for animal films, especially Frank Buck’s first movie, Bring 'Em Back Alive (1932).
Elliott was born in Ord, Nebraska, and was a class of 1909 alumnus of the University of Nebraska, and was a newspaper reporter, advertising solicitor and advertising promotion manager before entering the motion picture Industry. He founded Post Pictures Corporation in 1919, to make nature films distributed by Paramount.
