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Ross Elliott

American actor

1917 – 1999aged 82

Began his career, born Elliott Blum, in Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre — he was on air for the notorious 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds that convinced some listeners an invasion was underway. He went on to a decades-long career as a familiar face in American film and television, working steadily as a character actor into the 1990s.

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