Donald Elson

Donald Elson was born on Mar 31, 1923 in USA. Donald Elson's big-screen debut came with Julius Caesar directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz in 1953, strarring Citizen of Rome. Donald Elson is known for 61* directed by Billy Crystal, Barry Pepper stars as Roger Maris and Thomas Jane as Mickey Mantle. The upcoming new movie Donald Elson plays is Live! which will be released on Nov 01, 2007.

Donald Elson was raised in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood, just a "whoop and a holler" from Hollywood. He was a young college student at the outbreak of WWII. After serving in the Air Force, he attended the Columbia Radio School of Broadcasting on the GI Bill and pursued a career as a radio announcer at stations in Texas and Oklahoma before returning to college. He graduated from the University of Southern California with a BA degree in Theatre Arts in 1949 and headed to New York. Elson became a successful Broadway actor, appearing in "Inherit The Wind," "Desire Under the Elms," "Peter Pan," "Threepenny Opera" and numerous off-Broadway productions. He returned to Hollywood in the early 1960s, "saddling up" in a string of Film and TV Westerns.His skill and craftsmanship have enabled him to portray a wide variety of characters. Why is that craggy face so "gol'durn" familiar? Because we've seen it a thousand times in movies, television series, anthologies and Movies of the Week as well as countless television commercials.