James Ellison (May 4, 1910 - December 23, 1993) was an actor, born James Ellison Smith in Guthrie Center, Iowa, son of Edward James Smith and Ona Mary Ellis.

Ellison appeared in nearly seventy films between 1932 and 1962.

Despite his rugged good looks, Ellison's limited range and somewhat wooden screen presence kept him from the first (or even second) ranks of stardom. He spent much of his career in Westerns, including a stint in the mid-thirties as the sidekick of Hopalong Cassidy in Paramount's successful series. In 1938, he played a charming, romantic character opposite 26 year old Lucille Ball in the comedy, "Next Time I Marry", a film where Ball had her first top billing on screen credits. Before that, in 1936, he played his highest-profile role, as Buffalo Bill in Cecil B. DeMille's The Plainsman, which also starred Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur.

Despite that film's success, Ellison spent most of the remainder of his career shuttling between cowboy pictures and more varied roles, primarily in B movies with titles like Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case and The Undying Monster. He had a supporting role in 1941's Charley's Aunt (which starred Jack Benny) and played the romantic lead in 1943's The Gang's All Here, a Twentieth Century Fox musical in which he seemed somewhat lost among the vivid antics of Carmen Miranda, Charlotte Greenwood, and Edward Everett Horton (and was the only principal not to sing a note).

Ellison landed another romantic lead role as 'Jerry Gibson' in the musical film Lady, Let's Dance (1944) which starred ice skating sensation 'Belita'.

In the early 1950s, Ellison moved from acting to real estate. Joining fellow veteran Jackie Coogan, Ellison returned to the screen only once to play Axel 'Longhorn' Gates in a picture called When the Girls Take Over (1962).

James Ellison died at age 83 in Montecito, California after suffering a broken neck as the result of a fall.

James Ellison (born 19 September 1980 in Lancaster) is an English motorcycle racer, who was the only British rider in the premier class of the 2006 MotoGP season. His brother Dean is also a motorcycle racer.

James Ellison started racing motorcycles at the age of 15, riding 80 cc machines. After racing in junior championships such as Superteen, he entered the European Superstock series in 1999, winning the title in 2000 and 2001. In , he raced in the Supersport World Championship, before winning the Endurance World Championship in 2003.

For 2004, Ellison switched to the British Superbike Championship. He rode a Yamaha YZF-R1 for the privateer Jentin team. He finished 11th overall, and won the privateer cup for independent riders. As well as the British Superbike Championship season, he received two wild-card entries in the Superbike World Championship, at Silverstone and Brands Hatch. Notably, Ellison finished fifth in the second of two races at Brands Hatch.

Towards the end of 2004, Ellison was asked to race for the WCM MotoGP team after their regular rider, Chris Burns, was injured. He finished 13th at Qatar, and the team signed him for the full 2005 season. In 2005, he scored seven points whilst riding an underpowered bike , but impressed with his attitude and ability.

For 2006 he switched to the Tech 3 Yamaha team. At Philip Island he made history as the first rider to switch bikes mid-race, onto a bike with wet weather tyres. He later finished 16th and out of the points-scoring positions. He said that he was "disappointed" with the balance of the Yamaha M1 bike , and that his bike was inferior to the versions that the three other Yamaha riders had been riding.

Ellison's contract with Tech 3 Yamaha was not renewed for the 2007 season . He raced in AMA Superbike in the United States for the Corona Honda team in 2007 , but returned to British Superbikes for 2008, with the Hydrex Bike Animal team

James Ellison was a white supremacist and extremist leader from San Antonio, Texas who, in 1971, founded the radical organization The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord. Ellison purchased a strip of land near Elijah, Arkansas to serve as his compound. He was also a close associate of both Richard Wayne Snell and Timothy McVeigh.

Handsome, dark-haired leading man and then supporting player in Hollywood for two decades from 1932.

American light leading man, primarily of Westerns. Born in Guthrie Center, Iowa, in 1910, Ellison (born James Ellison Smith) grew up on a ranch in Valier, Montana. There he learned the skills that would stand him in good stead as a movie cowboy. His family moved to Los Angeles when he was a young man, and it was there that he first became interested in the theatre. He studied at the Pasadena Community Playhouse briefly, traveled to New York (and by some accounts played some minor roles in productions of the visiting Moscow Art Theatre, probably as a supernumerary), then returned to California where he was spotted by a Warner Bros. talent scout at a production of the Beverly Hills Little Theatre. He played a number of bit parts for Warners and MGM before landing the plum part of Hopalong Cassidy's sidekick Johnny Nelson in 1935. Ellison played Nelson for eight films before being plucked by Cecil B. DeMille for the role of Buffalo Bill Cody in De Mille's epic Western Plainsman, The (1936) opposite Gary Cooper (I). De Mille reportedly hated Ellison's performance, and it is certain that he never had quite so good a part in quite so good a film, thereafter. Following a number of romantic leads in lesser films, Ellison returned to the B-Western, this time as the lead (along with his Hopalong replacement Russell Hayden (I)) in a series featuring two cowhands named Lucky (Hayden) and Shamrock (Ellison). With the demise of the B-Western in the early 1950s, Ellison retired from movies and became a successful real estate broker. He died in 1993 as the result of a fall in which he broke his neck, at the age of 83.