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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1920-11-13
Place of birth
Miami, Gila, Arizona, USA
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Cast
Pocketful of Miracles
1961
7.30
High Noon
1952
7.70
Firecreek
1968
6.33
The Night of the Grizzly
1966
5.80
Finders Keepers
1952
0.00
Kansas City Confidential
1952
7.06
The Comancheros
1961
6.67
The Cannonball Run
1981
6.16
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957
7.01
Support Your Local Sheriff!
1969
6.97
Pardners
1956
6.70
Hawmps!
1976
4.30
Suburban Commando
1991
4.70
Hannie Caulder
1971
6.20
Cannonball Run II
1984
5.40
Night Passage
1957
6.40
Never a Dull Moment
1968
6.10
Rio Lobo
1970
6.50
Count the Hours!
1953
5.23
Hot Lead & Cold Feet
1978
5.80
Rancho Notorious
1952
6.50
Baby Face Nelson
1957
5.60
Moonfleet
1955
6.46
The Way West
1967
6.10
Artists and Models
1955
6.60
Rawhide
1951
6.70
The Sundowners
1950
5.00
Creature from Black Lake
1976
5.10
The Rare Breed
1966
6.10
Ride, Vaquero!
1953
5.90
The Ring
1952
4.70
The Last Sunset
1961
6.80
The Norseman
1978
3.30
4 for Texas
1963
5.06
Kiss Me Deadly
1955
7.20
Dirty Dingus Magee
1970
4.29
The Far Country
1954
6.90
The Man from Laramie
1955
7.18
Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971
6.60
Dragoon Wells Massacre
1957
6.90
The Gun Runners
1958
6.00
Bird of Paradise
1951
5.70
Hawken's Breed
1987
3.69
The Over the Hill Gang
1969
5.60
Sidekicks
1974
6.00
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955
4.90
Thunder Over Arizona
1956
6.00
Lure of the Swamp
1957
6.50
Edge of Eternity
1959
6.60
Jinxed!
1982
4.50
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
1981
4.50
High Lonesome
1950
5.10
The Girl in Lovers Lane
1960
2.70
The Last Challenge
1967
6.33
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1972
4.90
The Last Rebel
1971
2.00
Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?
1988
2.33
Gun Belt
1953
6.30
Sartana Does Not Forgive
1968
6.10
Wichita
1955
6.36
Once Upon a Texas Train
1988
5.07
The Giant of Thunder Mountain
1990
6.05
One Way Street
1950
5.20
The Villain
1979
5.74
Princess of the Nile
1954
7.10
Man Without a Star
1955
6.43
Sacred Ground
1983
6.00
Shadow Force
1992
0.00
Appointment in Honduras
1953
5.70
Big Bad John
1990
4.00
The Winds of Autumn
1976
5.80
A Knife for the Ladies
1974
4.90
Lure of the Wilderness
1952
5.96
The Slowest Gun in the West
1960
2.00
The Last Escape of Billy the Kid
1972
0.00
Key to the City
1950
6.20
The Aurora Encounter
1986
4.30
The Red Pony
1973
0.00
My Man and I
1952
6.80
Lacy and the Mississippi Queen
1978
1.50
Skyward Christmas
1981
0.00
Uninvited
1993
4.00
The Battle at Apache Pass
1952
6.40
Ride a Northbound Horse
1969
0.00
Jubal
1956
6.80
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973
7.20
The Moonlighter
1953
5.70
The Bushwhackers
1951
5.10
Grayeagle
1977
5.60
Jubilee Trail
1954
4.80
Vera Cruz
1954
6.64
I Am Not a Freak
1987
5.00
Montana Territory
1952
0.00
Cattle Queen of Montana
1954
5.60
Ride Clear of Diablo
1954
5.80
Lost
1983
4.80
Bonanza: The Return
1993
6.50
Bonanza: Under Attack
1995
6.50
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
1974
0.00
The Wild Country
1970
6.00
Pony Express Rider
1976
5.00
A Ticket to Tomahawk
1950
5.80
Wild Weed
1949
4.47
Huckleberry Finn
1978
6.00
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
8.28
Kismet
1955
5.30
Cat Ballou
1971
0.00
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1976
0.00
Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo
1970
0.00