Jack Elam
Born in Miami, Gila, Arizona, USA — Nov 13 1920• Died Oct 20 2003
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Colorful American character actor equally adept at vicious killers or grizzled sidekicks. As a child he worked in the cotton fields. He attended Santa Monica Junior College in California and subsequently became an accountant and, at one time, manager of the Bel Air Hotel. Elam got his first movie job by trading his accounting services for a role. In short time he became one of the most memorable supporting players in Hollywood, thanks not only to his near-demented screen persona but also to an out-of-kilter left eye, sightless from a childhood fight. He…
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Bonanza
Dodie Hoad
Have Gun, Will Travel
The Virginian
Harve Yost
Home Improvement
Hick Peterson
The Twilight Zone
Avery
F Troop
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Hock Ellis
The Rifleman
Sim Groder
The Untouchables
Jug Alverson
Ben Casey
Simon & Simon
Lawman
Cheyenne
The Wild Wild West
Zack Slade
Four Star Playhouse
Vic
Daniel Boone
Petch
Rawhide
Turkey Creek Jack Johnson
The High Chaparral
Macklin
The Lone Ranger
Reno Lawrence
Eight Is Enough
Zorro
Gomez (uncredited)
Gunsmoke
Dolph Quince
Studio 57
Bronco
Alias Smith and Jones
Laramie
Parson Hawks
Lancer
M Squad
Luke Morgan
The Texan
The Rebel
Uncle Luce
Nichols
Marcus A.F. Baxter
How the West Was Won
Cully Madigan
Tales of Wells Fargo
Chris
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
The Guns of Will Sonnett
Sam - Sheriff
Mr. Lucky
Phil Bricker
Tightrope
Once Upon a Time in the West
Frank's Gunman
Outlaws
Sugarfoot
Toothy Thompson
Screen Director's Playhouse
Shanks
Target: The Corruptors!
$weepstake$
The Restless Gun
Tony Molinor
Grizzly Adams
Gus
Stagecoach West
Clell
Tarzan
Mr. & Mrs. North
Cimarron Strip
Hondo
The Outcasts
The Dakotas
Deputy J.D. Smith
The Legend of Jesse James
Deacon Smith
Gunslinger
Clint Gannet
The Brian Keith Show
Frontier
Ness Fowler
National Velvet
Black Barr
High Noon
Charlie - Drunk in Jail (uncredited)
Lucky Luke
Axel Ericson
Father Murphy
J.J. Starbuck
Temple Houston
George Taggart
Paradise
Skragg
The Wonderful World of Disney
Sheriff
The Cannonball Run
Doctor
Easy Street
The Sacketts
Ira Bigelow
Cannonball Run II
Doc
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Tom McLowery
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Lee Dineen
Jubal
McCoy
Pocketful of Miracles
Cheesecake
Black Beauty
Jonas McBride
The Comancheros
Horseface (Comanchero)
Rio Lobo
Phillips
The Way West
Preacher Weatherby
Firecreek
Norman
The Villain
Avery Simpson
The Man from Laramie
Chris Boldt
Wichita
Al
Hannie Caulder
Frank Clemens
Hot Lead & Cold Feet
Rattlesnake
Vera Cruz
Tex
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Alamosa Bill Kermit
Rancho Notorious
Mort Geary
Kiss Me Deadly
Charlie Max
Ride, Vaquero!
Barton
The Rare Breed
Deke Simons
The Far Country
Frank Newberry
A Ticket to Tomahawk
Fargo
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Burger
Struck by Lightning
Frank
Man Without a Star
Knife Murderer (uncredited)
Kung Fu
Marcus Taylor
Grayeagle
Trapper Willis
Once Upon a Texas Train
Jason Fitch
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Self
The Over the Hill Gang
Sheriff Clyde Barnes
The Sundowners
Earl Boyce
Pardners
Pete
Artists and Models
Ivan
The Night of the Grizzly
Hank
Night Passage
Shotgun
The Red Pony
Granddad
Gun Belt
Rusty Kolloway
The Last Sunset
Ed Hobbs
The Last Challenge
Ernest Scarnes
High Lonesome
Smiling Man
The Wild Country
Thompson
4 for Texas
Dobie
Kismet
Hasan-Ben
Baby Face Nelson
Fatso Nagel
Moonfleet
Damen
Count the Hours!
Max Verne
Detective in the House
Jinxed!
Otto
The Slowest Gun in the West
Ike Dalton
One Way Street
Arnie (uncredited)
Dragoon Wells Massacre
Tioga
Sidekicks
Boss
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
Big Mac
Cattle Queen of Montana
Yost
Support Your Local Sheriff!
Jake
The Norseman
Death Dreamer
The Gun Runners
Arnold
Key to the City
Councilman (uncredited)
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
Bitterroot
Edge of Eternity
Bill Ward
Big Bad John
Jake Calhoun
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Jug May
My Man and I
Celestino Garcia
Ride Clear of Diablo
Tim Lowerie
Suburban Commando
Col. Dustin 'Dusty' McHowell
The Ring
Harry Jackson
The Battle at Apache Pass
Mescal Jack
Lacy and the Mississippi Queen
Willie Red Fire
Appointment in Honduras
Castro
The Moonlighter
Slim
Creature from Black Lake
Joe Canton
Lost
Mr. Newsom
Hawmps!
Bad Jack Cutter
Thunder Over Arizona
Slats Callahan
Hawken's Breed
Tackett
Rawhide
Tevis
Bird of Paradise
The Trader
Huckleberry Finn
King
Sartana Does Not Forgive
Slim Kovacs
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
Bitterroot
Dirty Dingus Magee
John Wesley Hardin
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
Handy
Lure of the Wilderness
Dave Longden
Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills
Squires
Kansas City Confidential
Pete Harris
Jubilee Trail
Whitey
Bonanza: Under Attack
Buckshot
Princess of the Nile
Basra
Skyward Christmas
Clay Haller
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
Troscliar Boudreaux
Wild Weed
Raymond - Henchman
Bonanza: The Return
Buckshot
Finders Keepers
Eddie
Never a Dull Moment
Ace Williams
The Giant of Thunder Mountain
Hezekiah Crow
Montana Territory
Gimp
The Bushwhackers
Cree
Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?
Boone
Ride a Northbound Horse
Sheriff
The Last Rebel
Matt
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
Kittrick
Pony Express Rider
Crazy Charlie
Sacred Ground
Lum Witcher
Shadow Force
Tommy
A Knife for the Ladies
Jarrod (Sheriff)
The Aurora Encounter
Charlie
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
The Speaker
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite
Seth Beaumont
The Winds of Autumn
J. Pete Hankins
Lure of the Swamp
Henry Bliss
Uninvited
Grady
The Girl in Lovers Lane
Jesse
Cat Ballou
Kid Sheleen
I Am Not a Freak
Self
Scrooge's Rock 'N' Roll Christmas
Scrooge
The Last Escape of Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett
Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo
Self