Best remembered as Buffalo Bill, opposite Gary Cooper's Wild Bill Hickok and Jean Arthur's Calamity Jane, in Cecil B. DeMille's The Plainsman (1936).
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.
Son Durk, daughter Trudy (True)