Elliott starred with Ray Milland (X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes) and Joan Van Ark (Knots Landing) in the picture, in which a Southern estate is attacked by various species of lizards, birds, snakes and other creatures as revenge for the owner’s spraying of pesticides. A few years after Frogs was released, Elliott was scraping by with other small roles in TV and film when he got the chance to land the lead role in a movie called Lifeguard (1976), directed by Daniel Petrie. “One night, 10 days before they were gonna start, Dan Petrie and his wife were getting ready to go bed while Danny’s in there brushing his teeth and Dorothy’s sitting on the bed watching TV,” continued Elliott. “And she said, ‘Danny, come look at this guy. Adam Roarke. He’s perfect for the (lead in Lifeguard).’ And Danny’s in there going, ‘I know Adam Roarke. He’s not right.’ She said, ‘No, no! He is.’ And so he finishes up in the bathroom, comes out and sits down with her, starts looking at this thing, and (says) ‘That’s not Adam Roarke.’ (Roarke did appear in Frogs as well.) “So they sit through this movie, Frogs. Got my name off the credits and the next day, I went in and had a meeting on the movie and walked out of that office knowing that I had that part. So, I got that part because of Frogs, number one, and number two, because of Dan Petrie’s wife.”
