Elliott Reid mini-career in clubs in the early 1960s." Reid's Broadway credits include "Julius Caesar" (1937-1938), "The Shoemaker's Holiday" (1938), "Macbeth" (1948), "Two Blind Mice" (1949), "The Live Wire" (1950), "Two on the Aisle" (1951-1952), and "From A to Z" (1960). He co-starred as Felix Unger in a road production of "The Odd Couple" with Dan Dailey as Oscar Madison during the late 1960s. He also appeared as an art collector in the 1992 "Seinfeld" episode "The Letter". Reid died from heart failure on June 21, 2013, at the age of 93. He had resided in an assisted living facility in Studio
Felix the Cat Felix's success was fading. The new Disney shorts of Mickey Mouse made the silent offerings of Sullivan and Messmer, who were then unwilling to move to sound production, seem outdated. In 1929, Sullivan decided to make the transition and began distributing Felix sound cartoons through Copley Pictures. The sound Felix shorts proved to be a failure and the operation ended in 1932. Felix saw a brief three-cartoon resurrection in 1936 by the Van Beuren Studios. Felix cartoons began airing on American TV in 1953. Joe Oriolo introduced a redesigned, "long-legged" Felix, added new characters, and gave Felix a "Magic Bag