Jack Elam
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.
Birthday: 13 November 1920
Birth place: Miami, Gila, Arizona, USA
Known for: Acting
Movies known for
Pocketful of Miracles
High Noon
Firecreek
The Night of the Grizzly
Finders Keepers
Kansas City Confidential
The Comancheros
The Cannonball Run
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Support Your Local Sheriff!
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
Pardners
Hawmps!
Suburban Commando
Hannie Caulder
Cannonball Run II
Night Passage
Never a Dull Moment
Rio Lobo
Count the Hours!
Hot Lead & Cold Feet
Rancho Notorious
Baby Face Nelson
Moonfleet
The Way West
Artists and Models
Rawhide
The Sundowners
Creature from Black Lake
The Rare Breed
Ride, Vaquero!
The Ring
The Last Sunset
The Norseman
4 for Texas
Kiss Me Deadly
Dirty Dingus Magee
The Far Country
The Man from Laramie
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
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Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
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The Outcasts
The High Chaparral
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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
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Bronco
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National Velvet
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