Clyde E. Elliott
Birth date
July 23, 1885
Death date
June 12, 1959
Place of birth
Ord, Nebraska, USA
Profession
Directing
Age
73 years
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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.
