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.
Movies
Bonanza: Under Attack
Buckshot
Bonanza: The Return
Buckshot
Uninvited
Grady
Shadow Force
Tommy
Suburban Commando
Col. Dustin 'Dusty' McHowell
The Giant of Thunder Mountain
Hezekiah Crow
Big Bad John
Jake Calhoun
Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?
Boone
Once Upon a Texas Train
Jason Fitch
Hawken's Breed
Tackett
Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills
Squires
The Aurora Encounter
Charlie
Scrooge's Rock 'N' Roll Christmas
Scrooge
Cannonball Run II
Doc
Lost
Mr. Newsom
Sacred Ground
Lum Witcher
Jinxed!
Otto
Skyward Christmas
Clay Haller
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
Troscliar Boudreaux
The Cannonball Run
Doctor
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite
Seth Beaumont
The Villain
Avery Simpson
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
Big Mac
The Norseman
Death Dreamer
Hot Lead & Cold Feet
Rattlesnake
Lacy and the Mississippi Queen
Willie Red Fire
Huckleberry Finn
King
Grayeagle
Trapper Willis
Pony Express Rider
Crazy Charlie
The Winds of Autumn
J. Pete Hankins
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
Bitterroot
Hawmps!
Bad Jack Cutter
Creature from Black Lake
Joe Canton
A Knife for the Ladies
Jarrod (Sheriff)
Sidekicks
Boss
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
Handy
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Alamosa Bill Kermit
The Red Pony
Granddad
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
Bitterroot
The Last Escape of Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett
Hannie Caulder
Frank Clemens
The Last Rebel
Matt
Cat Ballou
Kid Sheleen
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Jug May
The Wild Country
Thompson
Dirty Dingus Magee
John Wesley Hardin
Rio Lobo
Phillips
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
Kittrick
The Over the Hill Gang
Sheriff Clyde Barnes
Support Your Local Sheriff!
Jake
Ride a Northbound Horse
Sheriff
Once Upon a Time in the West
Frank's Gunman
Sartana Does Not Forgive
Slim Kovacs
Never a Dull Moment
Ace Williams
Firecreek
Norman
The Last Challenge
Ernest Scarnes
The Way West
Preacher Weatherby
The Night of the Grizzly
Hank
The Rare Breed
Deke Simons
4 for Texas
Dobie
Pocketful of Miracles
Cheesecake
The Comancheros
Horseface (Comanchero)
The Last Sunset
Ed Hobbs
The Girl in Lovers Lane
Jesse
The Slowest Gun in the West
Ike Dalton
Edge of Eternity
Bill Ward
The Gun Runners
Arnold
Baby Face Nelson
Fatso Nagel
Dragoon Wells Massacre
Tioga
Night Passage
Shotgun
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Tom McLowery
Lure of the Swamp
Henry Bliss
Thunder Over Arizona
Slats Callahan
Pardners
Pete
Jubal
McCoy
Artists and Models
Ivan
Kismet
Hasan-Ben
The Man from Laramie
Chris Boldt
Wichita
Al
Moonfleet
Damen
Kiss Me Deadly
Charlie Max
Man Without a Star
Knife Murderer (uncredited)
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Burger
Vera Cruz
Tex
Cattle Queen of Montana
Yost
Princess of the Nile
Basra
Jubilee Trail
Whitey
The Far Country
Frank Newberry
Ride Clear of Diablo
Tim Lowerie
Appointment in Honduras
Castro
The Moonlighter
Slim
Gun Belt
Rusty Kolloway
Ride, Vaquero!
Barton
Count the Hours!
Max Verne
Kansas City Confidential
Pete Harris
The Ring
Harry Jackson
My Man and I
Celestino Garcia
Lure of the Wilderness
Dave Longden
High Noon
Charlie - Drunk in Jail (uncredited)
Montana Territory
Gimp
The Battle at Apache Pass
Mescal Jack
Rancho Notorious
Mort Geary
Finders Keepers
Eddie
The Bushwhackers
Cree
Rawhide
Tevis
Bird of Paradise
The Trader
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
The Speaker
High Lonesome
Smiling Man
A Ticket to Tomahawk
Fargo
One Way Street
Arnie (uncredited)
The Sundowners
Earl Boyce
Key to the City
Councilman (uncredited)
Wild Weed
Raymond - Henchman
TV Series
Lucky Luke
Axel Ericson
1 Episode
Home Improvement
Hick Peterson
1 Episode
Paradise
Skragg
1 Episode
J.J. Starbuck
1 Episode
Easy Street
22 Episodes
Detective in the House
6 Episodes
Simon & Simon
1 Episode
Father Murphy
2 Episodes
Struck by Lightning
Frank
10 Episodes
The Sacketts
Ira Bigelow
2 Episodes
$weepstake$
1 Episode
Black Beauty
Jonas McBride
5 Episodes
Eight Is Enough
3 Episodes
Grizzly Adams
Gus
1 Episode
How the West Was Won
Cully Madigan
2 Episodes
Kung Fu
Marcus Taylor
1 Episode
The Brian Keith Show
1 Episode
Nichols
Marcus A.F. Baxter
1 Episode
Alias Smith and Jones
1 Episode
Lancer
1 Episode
The Outcasts
1 Episode
The High Chaparral
Macklin
1 Episode
Hondo
1 Episode
The Guns of Will Sonnett
Sam - Sheriff
1 Episode
Cimarron Strip
1 Episode
Tarzan
1 Episode
The Wild Wild West
Zack Slade
1 Episode
F Troop
1 Episode
The Legend of Jesse James
Deacon Smith
1 Episode
Daniel Boone
Petch
1 Episode
Temple Houston
George Taggart
26 Episodes
The Dakotas
Deputy J.D. Smith
19 Episodes
The Virginian
Harve Yost
1 Episode
Ben Casey
1 Episode
Target: The Corruptors!
1 Episode
Gunslinger
Clint Gannet
1 Episode
Stagecoach West
Clell
1 Episode
Outlaws
1 Episode
National Velvet
Black Barr
1 Episode
Mr. Lucky
Phil Bricker
1 Episode
The Untouchables
Jug Alverson
1 Episode
The Rebel
Uncle Luce
1 Episode
The Twilight Zone
Avery
1 Episode
Laramie
Parson Hawks
1 Episode
Bonanza
Dodie Hoad
1 Episode
Tightrope
1 Episode
Rawhide
Turkey Creek Jack Johnson
1 Episode
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1 Episode
Lawman
3 Episodes
The Rifleman
4 Episodes
The Texan
2 Episodes
Bronco
2 Episodes
Zorro
Gomez (uncredited)
3 Episodes
The Restless Gun
Tony Molinor
1 Episode
M Squad
Luke Morgan
1 Episode
Sugarfoot
Toothy Thompson
2 Episodes
Have Gun, Will Travel
1 Episode
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Danny Boy
1 Episode
Tales of Wells Fargo
Chris
1 Episode
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Hock Ellis
1 Episode
Screen Director's Playhouse
Shanks
1 Episode
Frontier
Ness Fowler
2 Episodes
Cheyenne
2 Episodes
Gunsmoke
Dolph Quince
1 Episode
The Wonderful World of Disney
Sheriff
2 Episodes
Mr. & Mrs. North
1 Episode
Four Star Playhouse
Vic
1 Episode
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Lee Dineen
1 Episode
The Lone Ranger
Reno Lawrence
1 Episode