
Jack Elam
Known for: Acting
Born: November 13, 1920
Died: October 20, 2003
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 o…
Known for

Creature from Black Lake
1976

The Winds of Autumn
1976

A Knife for the Ladies
1974

The Last Escape of Billy the Kid
1972

The Aurora Encounter
1986

Uninvited
1993

Hawken's Breed
1987

The Girl in Lovers Lane
1960

The Last Rebel
1971

Sacred Ground
1983

Big Bad John
1990

Scrooge's Rock 'N' Roll Christmas
1984

Cat Ballou
1971

The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1976

Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo
1970

Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971

Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?
1988

Sartana Does Not Forgive
1968

I Am Not a Freak
1987

Bonanza: Under Attack
1995

Shootout in a One-Dog Town
1974

Hannie Caulder
1971

Rio Lobo
1970

Hot Lead & Cold Feet
1978

The Norseman
1978

The Over the Hill Gang
1969

Sidekicks
1974

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955

Lure of the Swamp
1957

Jinxed!
1982

Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
1981

The Slowest Gun in the West
1960

The Red Pony
1973

Lacy and the Mississippi Queen
1978

Support Your Local Sheriff!
1969

The Way West
1967

Dirty Dingus Magee
1970

Thunder Over Arizona
1956

Edge of Eternity
1959

The Last Challenge
1967

Gun Belt
1953

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
1970

Appointment in Honduras
1953

Grayeagle
1977

Montana Territory
1952

Lost
1983

The Wild Country
1970

Huckleberry Finn
1978

The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite
1981

Kansas City Confidential
1952

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
1979

Hawmps!
1976

Baby Face Nelson
1957

Rawhide
1951

The Sundowners
1950

The Gun Runners
1958

Bird of Paradise
1951

Skyward Christmas
1981

Cattle Queen of Montana
1954

Bonanza: The Return
1993

The Cannonball Run
1981

Pardners
1956

Suburban Commando
1991

Never a Dull Moment
1968

Count the Hours!
1953

The Rare Breed
1966

Dragoon Wells Massacre
1957

American Guerrilla in the Philippines
1950

High Lonesome
1950

The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1972

The Giant of Thunder Mountain
1990

The Villain
1979

My Man and I
1952

Ride a Northbound Horse
1969

The Moonlighter
1953

Firecreek
1968

The Night of the Grizzly
1966

Finders Keepers
1952

Rancho Notorious
1952

The Ring
1952

The Man from Laramie
1955

Princess of the Nile
1954

Lure of the Wilderness
1952

Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills
1986

Ride Clear of Diablo
1954

Once Upon a Time in the West
1968

Artists and Models
1955

Ride, Vaquero!
1953

Once Upon a Texas Train
1988

The Battle at Apache Pass
1952

The Bushwhackers
1951

Vera Cruz
1954

Wild Weed
1949

Kismet
1955

The Comancheros
1961

The Last Sunset
1961

Jubal
1956

Jubilee Trail
1954

Pony Express Rider
1976

Night Passage
1957

Shadow Force
1992

A Ticket to Tomahawk
1950

Moonfleet
1955

Kiss Me Deadly
1955

Wichita
1955

The Far Country
1954

One Way Street
1950

Cannonball Run II
1984

4 for Texas
1963

Man Without a Star
1955

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973

Key to the City
1950

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957

Pocketful of Miracles
1961

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997

High Noon
1952

Cheyenne
1955

F Troop
1965

Home Improvement
1991

Simon & Simon
1981

Alias Smith and Jones
1971

Tales of Wells Fargo
1957

Gunsmoke
1955

Eight Is Enough
1977

Father Murphy
1981

The Twilight Zone
1959

Bonanza
1959

Target: The Corruptors!
1961

Outlaws
1960

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958

Rawhide
1959

Have Gun, Will Travel
1957

Cimarron Strip
1967

Daniel Boone
1964

The Outcasts
1968

The High Chaparral
1967

Lancer
1968

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951

Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957

M Squad
1957

Bronco
1958

Tarzan
1966

Hondo
1967

National Velvet
1960

The Rebel
1959

The Dakotas
1963

The Rifleman
1958

Lawman
1958

Sugarfoot
1957

Ben Casey
1961

The Texan
1958

The Brian Keith Show
1972

The Sacketts
1979

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956

Grizzly Adams
1977

The Legend of Jesse James
1965

Tightrope
1959

Frontier
1955
Detective in the House
1985

The Restless Gun
1957

Mr. & Mrs. North
1952

Easy Street
1986

J.J. Starbuck
1987

Struck by Lightning
1979

Zorro
1957

Temple Houston
1963

Nichols
1971

Four Star Playhouse
1952

The Lone Ranger
1949

Black Beauty
1978

How the West Was Won
1977

The Untouchables
1959

The Virginian
1962

Paradise
1988

Kung Fu
1972

Lucky Luke
1992

Screen Director's Playhouse
1955

The Wonderful World of Disney
1954

Mr. Lucky
1959

The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967

Stagecoach West
1960

Laramie
1959
$weepstake$
1979

The Wild Wild West
1965

Gunslinger
1961

Studio 57
1954