Jack Elam

Jack Elam

Birthday: 1920-11-13

Deathday: 2003-10-20

Place of birth: Miami, Gila, Arizona, USA

Also known as: William Scott Elam, William Scott "Jack" Elam, جک ایلام

imdb_id: nm0001181

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.

Played in movies:

Once Upon a Time in the West

Score: 8.3

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Score: 7.8

High Noon

Score: 7.7

Pocketful of Miracles

Score: 7.3

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Score: 7.2

Kiss Me Deadly

Score: 7.2

The Man from Laramie

Score: 7.2

Princess of the Nile

Score: 7.1

Kansas City Confidential

Score: 7.1

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Score: 7.0

Support Your Local Sheriff!

Score: 7.0

Dragoon Wells Massacre

Score: 6.9

The Far Country

Score: 6.9

Jubal

Score: 6.8

My Man and I

Score: 6.8

The Last Sunset

Score: 6.8

Vera Cruz

Score: 6.7

Rawhide

Score: 6.7

Artists and Models

Score: 6.7

Edge of Eternity

Score: 6.6

Support Your Local Gunfighter

Score: 6.6

Pardners

Score: 6.6

The Comancheros

Score: 6.6

Moonfleet

Score: 6.5

Bonanza: The Return

Score: 6.5

Bonanza: Under Attack

Score: 6.5

Lure of the Swamp

Score: 6.5

Rancho Notorious

Score: 6.5

Man Without a Star

Score: 6.4

Rio Lobo

Score: 6.4

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again

Score: 6.4

Firecreek

Score: 6.4

Night Passage

Score: 6.4

The Battle at Apache Pass

Score: 6.4

Wichita

Score: 6.3

Gun Belt

Score: 6.3

The Last Challenge

Score: 6.3

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

Score: 6.3

Hannie Caulder

Score: 6.2

Key to the City

Score: 6.2

The Cannonball Run

Score: 6.2

Never a Dull Moment

Score: 6.1

Sartana Does Not Forgive

Score: 6.1

Huckleberry Finn

Score: 6.0

The Wild Country

Score: 6.0

Scrooge's Rock 'N' Roll Christmas

Score: 6.0

Lure of the Wilderness

Score: 6.0

Sacred Ground

Score: 6.0

Thunder Over Arizona

Score: 6.0

Sidekicks

Score: 6.0

The Gun Runners

Score: 6.0

The Rare Breed

Score: 6.0

The Way West

Score: 6.0

Ride, Vaquero!

Score: 5.9

A Ticket to Tomahawk

Score: 5.8

Ride Clear of Diablo

Score: 5.8

Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills

Score: 5.8

The Winds of Autumn

Score: 5.8

Hot Lead & Cold Feet

Score: 5.8

The Villain

Score: 5.7

The Moonlighter

Score: 5.7

Appointment in Honduras

Score: 5.7

Bird of Paradise

Score: 5.7

The Night of the Grizzly

Score: 5.7

The Giant of Thunder Mountain

Score: 5.6

Cattle Queen of Montana

Score: 5.6

Grayeagle

Score: 5.6

The Over the Hill Gang

Score: 5.6

Baby Face Nelson

Score: 5.6

The Daughters of Joshua Cabe

Score: 5.5

American Guerrilla in the Philippines

Score: 5.5

Count the Hours!

Score: 5.5

Once Upon a Texas Train

Score: 5.4

The Sundowners

Score: 5.4

Cannonball Run II

Score: 5.4

Creature from Black Lake

Score: 5.2

One Way Street

Score: 5.2

Kismet

Score: 5.2

A Knife for the Ladies

Score: 5.1

The Bushwhackers

Score: 5.1

High Lonesome

Score: 5.1

4 for Texas

Score: 5.1

Pony Express Rider

Score: 5.0

I Am Not a Freak

Score: 5.0

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle

Score: 4.9

Lost

Score: 4.8

Jubilee Trail

Score: 4.8

Wild Weed

Score: 4.7

Suburban Commando

Score: 4.7

The Ring

Score: 4.7

Uninvited

Score: 4.6

Dirty Dingus Magee

Score: 4.5

Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.

Score: 4.5

Jinxed!

Score: 4.5

The Aurora Encounter

Score: 4.3

Hawmps!

Score: 4.3

Big Bad John

Score: 4.0

Hawken's Breed

Score: 3.8

The Norseman

Score: 3.3

The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite

Score: 3.0

Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?

Score: 3.0

The Girl in Lovers Lane

Score: 2.8

The Slowest Gun in the West

Score: 2.0

The Last Rebel

Score: 2.0

Lacy and the Mississippi Queen

Score: 1.5

Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo

Score: 0.0

The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe

Score: 0.0

Cat Ballou

Score: 0.0

Shootout in a One-Dog Town

Score: 0.0

Montana Territory

Score: 0.0

Ride a Northbound Horse

Score: 0.0

Skyward Christmas

Score: 0.0

The Red Pony

Score: 0.0

The Last Escape of Billy the Kid

Score: 0.0

Shadow Force

Score: 0.0

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

Score: 0.0

Finders Keepers

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Twilight Zone

Score: 8.5

Father Murphy

Score: 8.0

The Untouchables

Score: 7.8

The Untouchables

Score: 7.8

The Wonderful World of Disney

Score: 7.8

Kung Fu

Score: 7.7

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

The Sacketts

Score: 7.5

National Velvet

Score: 7.5

Zorro

Score: 7.5

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.4

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.4

Home Improvement

Score: 7.4

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.3

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.3

Rawhide

Score: 7.1

The Rifleman

Score: 7.0

The Rifleman

Score: 7.0

Black Beauty

Score: 7.0

Grizzly Adams

Score: 7.0

How the West Was Won

Score: 6.9

Alias Smith and Jones

Score: 6.9

Daniel Boone

Score: 6.9

Tarzan

Score: 6.7

Simon & Simon

Score: 6.7

The Lone Ranger

Score: 6.7

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Tales of Wells Fargo

Score: 6.6

Screen Director's Playhouse

Score: 6.5

Hondo

Score: 6.5

The High Chaparral

Score: 6.5

Laramie

Score: 6.4

Mr. Lucky

Score: 6.4

The Virginian

Score: 6.3

Four Star Playhouse

Score: 6.3

The Guns of Will Sonnett

Score: 6.2

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Score: 6.2

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Score: 6.2

Outlaws

Score: 6.2

F Troop

Score: 6.2

Stagecoach West

Score: 6.0

Eight Is Enough

Score: 6.0

Cheyenne

Score: 5.8

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Score: 5.8

Cheyenne

Score: 5.8

Lucky Luke

Score: 5.7

Temple Houston

Score: 5.7

Easy Street

Score: 5.7

The Dakotas

Score: 5.7

Lawman

Score: 5.6

Lawman

Score: 5.6

Ben Casey

Score: 5.6

Lawman

Score: 5.6

The Texan

Score: 5.5

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 5.5

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 5.5

Tightrope

Score: 5.5

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 5.5

The Texan

Score: 5.5

Paradise

Score: 5.4

The Outcasts

Score: 5.3

Bronco

Score: 5.2

M Squad

Score: 5.2

The Rebel

Score: 5.1

Nichols

Score: 5.0

Struck by Lightning

Score: 5.0

J.J. Starbuck

Score: 5.0

Detective in the House

Score: 5.0

Frontier

Score: 5.0

The Brian Keith Show

Score: 5.0

Cimarron Strip

Score: 5.0

The Legend of Jesse James

Score: 4.8

Sugarfoot

Score: 4.8

Lancer

Score: 4.7

Mr. & Mrs. North

Score: 4.3

The Restless Gun

Score: 3.7

The Restless Gun

Score: 3.7

Target: The Corruptors!

Score: 3.5

$weepstake$

Score: 0.0