Biographie

4 mai 1910 · Guthrie Center, Iowa, États-Unis

23 décembre 1993 · Montecito, Californie, États-Unis (nuque brisée suite à une chute)

James Ellison Smith

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In the latter part of his career he owned a very successful home construction business, from which he made far more money than he did by acting. He built many expensive homes in Beverly Hills, and Ellison Drive in that city is named after him.

Jimmy outlived his daughter, Trudy, who died in 1977.

Best remembered as Buffalo Bill, opposite Gary Cooper's Wild Bill Hickok and Jean Arthur's Calamity Jane, in Cecil B. DeMille's Une aventure de Buffalo Bill (1936).

Son Durk, daughter Trudy (True)

We went to all the Iowa picnics at Long Beach and between my mother and the picnics, I learned a great deal about the Tall Corn State. I best remember the stories of Old Grandfather Ellison. He was quite a character--a captain in an Iowa regiment in the Civil War and sheriff of Louisa County.