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Jack Elam
Known for: ActingColorful 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.
Filmography 76
Cannonball Run II
as Doc 
Once Upon a Time in the West
as Frank's Gunman 
The Comancheros
as Horseface (Comanchero) 
The Cannonball Run
as Doctor 
Vera Cruz
as Tex 
Jubal
as McCoy 
Pardners
as Pete 
Support Your Local Sheriff!
as Jake 
Rawhide
as Tevis 
The Way West
as Preacher Weatherby 
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
as Alamosa Bill Kermit 
Hannie Caulder
as Frank Clemens 
Moonfleet
as Damen 
Rio Lobo
as Phillips 
Kiss Me Deadly
as Charlie Max 
Suburban Commando
as Col. Dustin 'Dusty' McHowell 
The Far Country
as Frank Newberry 
Grayeagle
as Trapper Willis 
The Battle at Apache Pass
as Mescal Jack 
The Villain
as Avery Simpson 
The Man from Laramie
as Chris Boldt 
Ride Clear of Diablo
as Tim Lowerie 
Artists and Models
as Ivan 
Man Without a Star
as Knife Murderer (uncredited) 
Kismet
as Hasan-Ben 
Support Your Local Gunfighter
as Jug May 
Never a Dull Moment
as Ace Williams 
Cattle Queen of Montana
as Yost 
4 for Texas
as Dobie 
Kansas City Confidential
as Pete Harris 
The Last Sunset
as Ed Hobbs 
Jinxed!
as Otto 
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
as Big Mac 
Rancho Notorious
as Mort Geary 
Hot Lead & Cold Feet
as Rattlesnake 
The Rare Breed
as Deke Simons 
Night Passage
as Shotgun 
The Night of the Grizzly
as Hank 
Ride, Vaquero!
as Barton 
Firecreek
as Norman 
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
as The Speaker 
Wichita
as Al 
Princess of the Nile
as Basra 
Dirty Dingus Magee
as John Wesley Hardin 
Key to the City
as Councilman (uncredited) 
A Knife for the Ladies
as Jarrod (Sheriff) 
Once Upon a Texas Train
as Jason Fitch 
A Ticket to Tomahawk
as Fargo 
Edge of Eternity
as Bill Ward 
The Giant of Thunder Mountain
as Hezekiah Crow 
Creature from Black Lake
as Joe Canton 
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
as Bitterroot 
The Last Challenge
as Ernest Scarnes 
Gun Belt
as Rusty Kolloway 
The Over the Hill Gang
as Sheriff Clyde Barnes 
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
as Burger 
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
as Bitterroot 
The Sundowners
as Earl Boyce 
Dragoon Wells Massacre
as Tioga 
The Ring
as Harry Jackson 
The Moonlighter
as Slim 
Scrooge's Rock 'N' Roll Christmas
as Scrooge 
The Slowest Gun in the West
as Ike Dalton 
The Wild Country
as Thompson 
The Norseman
as Death Dreamer 
The Gun Runners
as Arnold 
The Winds of Autumn
as J. Pete Hankins 
Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?
as Boone 
Shadow Force
as Tommy 
High Lonesome
as Smiling Man 
Pony Express Rider
as Crazy Charlie 
Appointment in Honduras
as Castro 
Sartana Does Not Forgive
as Slim Kovacs 
The Aurora Encounter
as Charlie 
The Girl in Lovers Lane
as Jesse 
The Bushwhackers
as Cree