Jack Elam
Acting
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…
Filmography
80
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
Bonanza: Under Attack
1995
Bonanza: The Return
1993
Uninvited
1993
Shadow Force
1992
Lucky Luke
1992
Suburban Commando
1991
Home Improvement
1991
The Giant of Thunder Mountain
1990
Big Bad John
1990
Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?
1988
Paradise
1988
Once Upon a Texas Train
1988
I Am Not a Freak
1987
J.J. Starbuck
1987
Hawken's Breed
1987
Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills
1986
Easy Street
1986
The Aurora Encounter
1986
Detective in the House
Detective in the House
1985
Scrooge's Rock 'N' Roll Christmas
1984
Cannonball Run II
1984
Lost
1983
Sacred Ground
1983
Jinxed!
1982
Skyward Christmas
1981
Simon & Simon
1981
Father Murphy
1981
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
1981
The Cannonball Run
1981
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite
1981
Struck by Lightning
1979
The Villain
1979
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
1979
The Sacketts
1979
$weepstake$
$weepstake$
1979
The Norseman
1978
Hot Lead & Cold Feet
1978
Lacy and the Mississippi Queen
1978
Huckleberry Finn
1978
Black Beauty
1978
Grayeagle
1977
Eight Is Enough
1977
Grizzly Adams
1977
How the West Was Won
1977
Pony Express Rider
1976
The Winds of Autumn
1976
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1976
Hawmps!
1976
Creature from Black Lake
1976
A Knife for the Ladies
1974
Sidekicks
1974
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
1974
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973
The Red Pony
1973
Kung Fu
1972
The Brian Keith Show
1972
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1972
The Last Escape of Billy the Kid
1972
Hannie Caulder
1971
The Last Rebel
1971
Nichols
1971
Cat Ballou
1971
Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
The Wild Country
1970
Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo
1970
Dirty Dingus Magee
1970
Rio Lobo
1970
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
1970
The Over the Hill Gang
1969
Support Your Local Sheriff!
1969
Ride a Northbound Horse
1969
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
Sartana Does Not Forgive
1968
Lancer
1968
The Outcasts
1968
Never a Dull Moment
1968
Firecreek
1968
The High Chaparral
1967