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Elliott Reid was the only person producer Jess Oppenheimer wanted to play interviewer Edward R. Murrow on I Love Lucy. After getting the call, Reid spent an entire weekend watching newsreel footage of the legendary CBS newsman, then proceeded to deliver a dead-on portrayal of Murrow (as "Ed Warren") in Episode 134 ("Face to Face" - a/k/a "The Ricardos Are Interviewed"). Reid got his start in show business at the age of 13, on the Horn and Hardart Children's Hour. At age 16 he won the first of many parts on The March of Time, acting alongside fellow cast-member Orson Welles. When Welles, only a few years Reid's senior, formed the Mercury Theatre, he asked Reid to join him, and Reid did many, many Mercury Theatre broadcasts for Welles over the years. Other radio work included The Adventures of Sam Spade, Pepper Young's Family, Grand Central Station, Suspense, Escape, and Burns and Allen, to name but a few. Reid's countless television appearances include The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy, The Millionaire, The Phil Silvers Show, Perry Mason, Make Room for Daddy, That Was the Week That Was (on which Reid was a regular), Wild Wild West, Love American Style, The Odd Couple, Barney Miller, All in the Family, Small Wonder, Designing Women, Murder She Wrote, and Seinfeld. His 20 feature films include A Double Life,Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,Woman's World,Inherit the Wind,The Absent-Minded Professor,The Wheeler Dealers,The Thrill of It All,Move Over Darling, and Heaven Can Wait. More Profiles
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