Elliott Pershing Stitzel, better known by his stage name Stephen Elliott, became most successful in films after he reached the half-century mark. He is best remembered for roles as crime boss, Burt Johnson, in the 1981 film Arthur, Chief Hubbard in the 1984 Beverly Hills Cop, The Hospital (1971), Death Wish (1974) and The Hindenburg (1975). His television career began in 1949 in Hands of Murder, a series of live plays on the DuMont network. Over the years, he would appear in dozens of comedies and dramas, starring as patriarch Benjamin Lassiter on the short-lived 1975 CBS prime-time soap Beacon Hill and playing matriarch Jane Wyman's former husband on Falcon Crest in 1981-82. His final television role was in 1999 as Judge Harold Aldrich, a recurring character that appeared over a five-year span in Chicago Hope,
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Law & Order Virus |
1993 |
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Shaky Ground Pet Sematary |
1993 |
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Shaky Ground Asbestos and Costello |
1993 |
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Equal Justice Do No Harm |
1991 |
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Shades of L.A. The Really Big Sleep |
1991 |
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Law & Order The Secret Sharers |
1991 |
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Columbo Grand Deceptions |
1989 |
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Max Headroom Grossberg's Return |
1987 |
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Hotel Revelations |
1987 |
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Sledge Hammer! The Old Man and the Sledge |
1987 |
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Downtown (1986) Since I Don't Have You |
1986 |
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Scarecrow and Mrs. King The Triumvirate |
1986 |
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Hotel Shadows of Doubt (2) |
1986 |
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Hotel Shadows of Doubt (1) |
1986 |
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Dallas Winds of War |
1985 |
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Dallas Lockup in Laredo |
1985 |
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Murder, She Wrote Armed Response |
1985 |
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St. Elsewhere My Aim is True |
1984 |
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St. Elsewhere Fade to White |
1984 |
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St. Elsewhere Up on the Roof |
1984 |
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St. Elsewhere Breathless |
1984 |
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St. Elsewhere Strikeout |
1984 |
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St. Elsewhere Two Balls and a Strike |
1984 |
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St. Elsewhere Playing God (2) |
1984 |
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St. Elsewhere Playing God (1) |
1984 |
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Scarecrow and Mrs. King Weekend |
1984 |
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Remington Steele My Fair Steele |
1983 |
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Magnum, P.I. Almost Home |
1982 |
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Quincy, M.E. To Clear the Air |
1982 |
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Little House on the Prairie The Empire Builders |
1982 |
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Taxi Thy Boss's Wife |
1981 |
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Dallas Jock's Trial (2) |
1980 |
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Hagen Pilot |
1980 |
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Quincy, M.E. Mode of Death |
1979 |
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Vega$ Touch of Death |
1979 |
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Greatest Heroes of the Bible Jacob's Challenge |
1979 |
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The Rockford Files The Competitive Edge |
1978 |
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Hawaii Five-O Deadly Courier |
1978 |
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Lou Grant Slaughter |
1978 |
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The Rockford Files The Competitive Edge |
1978 |
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The Six Million Dollar Man Sharks (2) |
1977 |
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The Bionic Woman Iron Ships and Dead Men |
1977 |
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The Six Million Dollar Man Sharks (1) |
1977 |
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Petrocelli Death in Small Doses |
1975 |
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Columbo A Deadly State of Mind |
1975 |
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Manhunter A.W.O.L. To Kill |
1974 |
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Barnaby Jones Web of Deceit |
1974 |