Jack Elam

Known for ActingBorn 1920-11-13Died 2003-10-20Miami, Gila, Arizona, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Shootout in a One-Dog Town

The Red Pony

Cat Ballou

Ride a Northbound Horse

Finders Keepers

Skyward Christmas

National Velvet

The Twilight Zone

Once Upon a Time in the West

Father Murphy

Scrooge's Rock 'N' Roll Christmas

The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe

Studio 57

The Untouchables

The Wonderful World of Disney

Kung Fu

The Sacketts

I Am Not a Freak

Home Improvement

The Wild Wild West

High Noon

Bonanza

Zorro

Frontier

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

Grizzly Adams

Pocketful of Miracles

Shadow Force

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Have Gun, Will Travel

Princess of the Nile

Rawhide

Dragoon Wells Massacre

Kiss Me Deadly

Black Beauty

The Man from Laramie

Alias Smith and Jones

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

The Rifleman

How the West Was Won

Tales of Wells Fargo

Daniel Boone

Support Your Local Sheriff!

Bonanza: Under Attack

Easy Street

Kansas City Confidential

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Lure of the Swamp