Jack Elam
Acting
Born 1920-11-13
Died 2003-10-20
Miami, Gila, Arizona, USA
186 credits
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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 appeared with great aplomb in Westerns and gangster films alike, and in later years played to wonderful effect in comedic roles.
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Filmography
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Acting
43 credits
Bonanza
The Rifleman
Home Improvement
The Wild Wild West
The Twilight Zone
The Virginian
Have Gun, Will Travel
Cheyenne
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Rawhide
The Untouchables
Daniel Boone
Lawman
Four Star Playhouse
Zorro
Gunsmoke
Tales of Wells Fargo
The High Chaparral
The Lone Ranger
Once Upon a Time in the West
Laramie
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Sugarfoot
The Rebel
The Texan
The Guns of Will Sonnett
M Squad
High Noon
How the West Was Won
Grizzly Adams
Mr. Lucky
Screen Director's Playhouse
Nichols
The Restless Gun
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Cannonball Run
The Dakotas
The Legend of Jesse James
Stagecoach West
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Frontier
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Temple Houston
Other credits
17 credits
Simon & Simon
Ben Casey
Tarzan
Eight Is Enough
Alias Smith and Jones
F Troop
Bronco
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Lancer
Studio 57
Cimarron Strip
Outlaws
Target: The Corruptors!
Tightrope
Mr. & Mrs. North
Hondo
The Outcasts
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