
Jack Elam
Biography
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.
Acting (116 movies)

Pocketful of Miracles
1961

High Noon
1952

Firecreek
1968

The Night of the Grizzly
1966

Finders Keepers
1952

Kansas City Confidential
1952

The Comancheros
1961

The Cannonball Run
1981

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957

Support Your Local Sheriff!
1969

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
1979

Pardners
1956

Hawmps!
1976

Suburban Commando
1991

Hannie Caulder
1971

Cannonball Run II
1984

Night Passage
1957

Never a Dull Moment
1968

Rio Lobo
1970

Count the Hours!
1953

Hot Lead & Cold Feet
1978

Rancho Notorious
1952

Baby Face Nelson
1957

Moonfleet
1955

The Way West
1967

Artists and Models
1955

Rawhide
1951

The Sundowners
1950

Creature from Black Lake
1976

The Rare Breed
1966

Ride, Vaquero!
1953

The Ring
1952

The Last Sunset
1961

The Norseman
1978

4 for Texas
1963

Kiss Me Deadly
1955

Dirty Dingus Magee
1970

The Far Country
1954

The Man from Laramie
1955

Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997

Dragoon Wells Massacre
1957

The Gun Runners
1958

Bird of Paradise
1951

Hawken's Breed
1987

The Over the Hill Gang
1969

American Guerrilla in the Philippines
1950

Sidekicks
1974

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955

Thunder Over Arizona
1956

Lure of the Swamp
1957

Edge of Eternity
1959

Jinxed!
1982

Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
1981

High Lonesome
1950

The Girl in Lovers Lane
1960

The Last Challenge
1967

The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1972

The Last Rebel
1971

Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?
1988

Gun Belt
1953

Sartana Does Not Forgive
1968

Wichita
1955

Once Upon a Texas Train
1988

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
1970

The Giant of Thunder Mountain
1990

One Way Street
1950

The Villain
1979

Princess of the Nile
1954

Man Without a Star
1955

Sacred Ground
1983

Shadow Force
1992

Appointment in Honduras
1953

Big Bad John
1990

The Winds of Autumn
1976

A Knife for the Ladies
1974

Lure of the Wilderness
1952

The Slowest Gun in the West
1960

The Last Escape of Billy the Kid
1972

Key to the City
1950

Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills
1986

The Aurora Encounter
1986

The Red Pony
1973

My Man and I
1952

Lacy and the Mississippi Queen
1978

Skyward Christmas
1981

Uninvited
1993

The Battle at Apache Pass
1952

Ride a Northbound Horse
1969

Jubal
1956

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973

The Moonlighter
1953

The Bushwhackers
1951

Grayeagle
1977

Jubilee Trail
1954

Vera Cruz
1954

I Am Not a Freak
1987

Montana Territory
1952

Cattle Queen of Montana
1954

Ride Clear of Diablo
1954
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