Jack Elam
Known for: Acting
Born: November 13, 1920
Died: October 20, 2003
Place of birth: Miami, 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.
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Filmography
116 movies · 70 TV shows, newest first
7.0
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
6.7
Bonanza: Under Attack
1995
6.5
Bonanza: The Return
1993
4.4
Uninvited
1993
7.0
Shadow Force
1992
5.9
Lucky Luke
1992
4.7
Suburban Commando
1991
7.4
Home Improvement
1991
6.4
The Giant of Thunder Mountain
1990
5.0
Big Bad John
1990
4.6
Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?
1988
6.0
Paradise
1988
5.2
Once Upon a Texas Train
1988
7.5
I Am Not a Freak
1987
6.0
J.J. Starbuck
1987
4.0
Hawken's Breed
1987
6.6
Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills
1986
6.8
Easy Street
1986
5.0
The Aurora Encounter
19866.5
Detective in the House
1985
8.0
Scrooge's Rock 'N' Roll Christmas
1984
5.4
Cannonball Run II
1984
5.1
Lost
1983
6.5
Sacred Ground
1983
4.5
Jinxed!
1982
9.0
Skyward Christmas
1981
6.7
Simon & Simon
1981
8.1
Father Murphy
1981
5.1
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
1981
6.1
The Cannonball Run
1981
3.5
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite
1981
6.5
Struck by Lightning
1979
5.7
The Villain
1979
6.4
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
1979
7.6
The Sacketts
1979NR
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1979
3.4
The Norseman
1978
5.9
Hot Lead & Cold Feet
1978
3.5
Lacy and the Mississippi Queen
1978
6.2
Huckleberry Finn
1978
7.0
Black Beauty
1978
5.9
Grayeagle
1977
6.1
Eight Is Enough
1977
7.0
Grizzly Adams
1977
7.0
How the West Was Won
1977
6.0
Pony Express Rider
1976
6.0
The Winds of Autumn
1976
8.0
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1976
5.8
Hawmps!
1976
5.2
Creature from Black Lake
1976
5.0
A Knife for the Ladies
1974
6.5
Sidekicks
1974
10.0
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
1974
7.2
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973
10.0
The Red Pony
1973
7.7
Kung Fu
1972
6.3
The Brian Keith Show
1972
5.5
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1972
NR
The Last Escape of Billy the Kid
1972
6.2
Hannie Caulder
1971
4.0
The Last Rebel
1971
6.3
Nichols
1971
10.0
Cat Ballou
1971
6.6
Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971
7.0
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
6.0
The Wild Country
1970
NR
Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo
1970
4.7
Dirty Dingus Magee
1970
6.5
Rio Lobo
1970
6.8
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
1970
5.8
The Over the Hill Gang
1969
6.9
Support Your Local Sheriff!
1969
10.0
Ride a Northbound Horse
1969
8.3
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
6.4
Sartana Does Not Forgive
1968
5.6
Lancer
1968
6.5
The Outcasts
1968
6.2
Never a Dull Moment
1968
6.2
Firecreek
1968
6.8
The High Chaparral
1967
6.9
Hondo
1967
6.5
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
5.7
Cimarron Strip
1967
6.3
The Last Challenge
1967
6.1
The Way West
1967
6.9
Tarzan
1966
5.9
The Night of the Grizzly
1966
6.2
The Rare Breed
1966
7.5
The Wild Wild West
1965
6.3
F Troop
1965
5.8
The Legend of Jesse James
1965
7.0
Daniel Boone
1964
5.1
4 for Texas
1963
6.0
Temple Houston
1963
6.5
The Dakotas
1963
6.5
The Virginian
1962
7.3
Pocketful of Miracles
1961
6.7
The Comancheros
1961
5.9
Ben Casey
1961
5.7
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
6.8
The Last Sunset
1961
6.3
Gunslinger
1961
6.7
Stagecoach West
1960
6.7
Outlaws
1960
8.6
National Velvet
1960
3.2
The Girl in Lovers Lane
1960
4.5
The Slowest Gun in the West
1960
6.7
Edge of Eternity
1959
6.7
Mr. Lucky
1959
8.0
The Untouchables
1959
5.1
The Rebel
1959
8.5
The Twilight Zone
1959
6.7
Laramie
1959
7.5
Bonanza
1959
6.3
Tightrope
1959
7.2
Rawhide
1959
6.3
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
6.0
Lawman
1958
7.1
The Rifleman
1958
6.0
The Texan
1958
6.0
Bronco
1958
6.1
The Gun Runners
1958
5.6
Baby Face Nelson
1957
7.6
Zorro
1957
4.4
The Restless Gun
1957
5.4
M Squad
1957
5.1
Sugarfoot
1957
7.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
7.2
Dragoon Wells Massacre
1957
6.5
Night Passage
1957
6.8
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957
7.0
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957
7.0
Lure of the Swamp
1957
7.2
Tales of Wells Fargo
1957
6.2
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
6.3
Thunder Over Arizona
1956
6.7
Pardners
1956
6.9
Jubal
1956
6.7
Artists and Models
1955
5.6
Kismet
1955
7.0
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955
7.5
Frontier
1955
6.2
Cheyenne
1955
6.7
Gunsmoke
1955
7.2
The Man from Laramie
1955
6.3
Wichita
1955
6.5
Moonfleet
1955
7.2
Kiss Me Deadly
1955
6.4
Man Without a Star
1955
5.3
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955
6.7
Vera Cruz
1954
5.7
Cattle Queen of Montana
1954
7.9
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
7.5
Studio 57
1954
7.3
Princess of the Nile
1954
5.2
Jubilee Trail
1954
6.9
The Far Country
1954
6.1
Ride Clear of Diablo
1954
5.9
Appointment in Honduras
1953
6.0
The Moonlighter
1953
6.4
Gun Belt
1953
6.1
Ride, Vaquero!
1953
5.3
Count the Hours!
1953
7.0
Kansas City Confidential
1952
5.0
Mr. & Mrs. North
1952
5.1
The Ring
1952
6.8
Four Star Playhouse
1952
7.0
My Man and I
1952
6.1
Lure of the Wilderness
1952
7.7
High Noon
1952
7.0
Montana Territory
1952
6.6
The Battle at Apache Pass
1952
6.5
Rancho Notorious
1952
10.0
Finders Keepers
1952
5.9
The Bushwhackers
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
6.8
Rawhide
1951
6.2
Bird of Paradise
1951
5.5
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
1950
5.5
High Lonesome
1950
6.0
A Ticket to Tomahawk
1950
5.3
One Way Street
1950
5.2
The Sundowners
1950
6.5
Key to the City
1950
6.8
The Lone Ranger
1949
4.8
Wild Weed
1949