Jack Elam

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 appeared with great aplomb in Westerns and gangster films alike, and in later years played to wonderful effect in comedic roles.

Cast

Pocketful of Miracles

Charlie - Drunk in Jail (uncredited)

The Night of the Grizzly

Finders Keepers

Kansas City Confidential

The Comancheros

Horseface (Comanchero)

The Cannonball Run

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Support Your Local Sheriff!

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again

Bad Jack Cutter

Suburban Commando

Col. Dustin 'Dusty' McHowell

Cannonball Run II

Never a Dull Moment

Count the Hours!

Hot Lead & Cold Feet

Rancho Notorious

Baby Face Nelson

Preacher Weatherby

Artists and Models

Creature from Black Lake

The Last Sunset

Dirty Dingus Magee

John Wesley Hardin

The Far Country

The Man from Laramie

Support Your Local Gunfighter

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

Dragoon Wells Massacre

The Gun Runners

Bird of Paradise

The Over the Hill Gang

Sheriff Clyde Barnes

American Guerrilla in the Philippines

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle

Thunder Over Arizona

Lure of the Swamp

Edge of Eternity

Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.

Troscliar Boudreaux

The Girl in Lovers Lane

The Last Challenge

The Daughters of Joshua Cabe

Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?

Sartana Does Not Forgive

Once Upon a Texas Train

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

The Giant of Thunder Mountain

Arnie (uncredited)

Princess of the Nile

Man Without a Star

Knife Murderer (uncredited)

Appointment in Honduras

The Winds of Autumn

J. Pete Hankins

A Knife for the Ladies

Jarrod (Sheriff)

Lure of the Wilderness

The Slowest Gun in the West

The Last Escape of Billy the Kid

Key to the City

Councilman (uncredited)

Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills

The Aurora Encounter

Celestino Garcia

Lacy and the Mississippi Queen

Willie Red Fire

Skyward Christmas

The Battle at Apache Pass

Ride a Northbound Horse

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Alamosa Bill Kermit

The Moonlighter

The Bushwhackers

I Am Not a Freak

Montana Territory

Cattle Queen of Montana

Ride Clear of Diablo

Bonanza: The Return

Bonanza: Under Attack

Shootout in a One-Dog Town

Scrooge's Rock 'N' Roll Christmas

The Wild Country

Pony Express Rider

A Ticket to Tomahawk

Raymond - Henchman

Huckleberry Finn

Once Upon a Time in the West

The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite

The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe

Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo