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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