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.
186 acting credits
Acting · 186
Bonanza
1959
The Rifleman
1958
Home Improvement
1991
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
The Twilight Zone
1959
The Virginian
1962
Simon & Simon
1981
Cheyenne
1955
Ben Casey
1961
Four Star Playhouse
1952
The Untouchables
1959
Daniel Boone
1964
The Wild Wild West
1965
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Lawman
1958
Rawhide
1959
Zorro
1957
The Lone Ranger
1949
Gunsmoke
1955
The High Chaparral
1967
Sugarfoot
1957
The Texan
1958
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
The Rebel
1959
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957
Tarzan
1966
Eight Is Enough
1977
Lancer
1968
Studio 57
1954
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
Laramie
1959
M Squad
1957
Bronco
1958
F Troop
1965
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
Tales of Wells Fargo
1957
Outlaws
1960
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
How the West Was Won
1977
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955
Nichols
1971
Mr. Lucky
1959
Stagecoach West
1960
Tightrope
1959
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
Cimarron Strip
1967
Mr. & Mrs. North
1952
Hondo
1967
The Legend of Jesse James
1965
The Dakotas
1963
The Restless Gun
1957
Frontier
1955
National Velvet
1960
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
Grizzly Adams
1977
The Outcasts
1968
Father Murphy
1981
J.J. Starbuck
1987
$weepstake$
1979
Temple Houston
1963
High Noon
1952
The Brian Keith Show
1972
The Cannonball Run
1981
Gunslinger
1961
Lucky Luke
1992
Paradise
1988
The Sacketts
1979
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957
Cannonball Run II
1984
The Comancheros
1961
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973
Black Beauty
1978
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Rio Lobo
1970
Easy Street
1986
Pocketful of Miracles
1961
Kiss Me Deadly
1955
The Way West
1967
The Far Country
1954
Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971
Vera Cruz
1954
Suburban Commando
1991
The Villain
1979
Hannie Caulder
1971
The Rare Breed
1966
Support Your Local Sheriff!
1969
The Night of the Grizzly
1966
Firecreek
1968
Kung Fu
1972
Night Passage
1957
The Man from Laramie
1955
4 for Texas
1963
Rancho Notorious
1952
Detective in the House
1985
Struck by Lightning
1979
The Gun Runners
1958
Wichita
1955
Jubal
1956
Rawhide
1951
The Last Sunset
1961
Moonfleet
1955
Kismet
1955
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
1979
Man Without a Star
1955
Hot Lead & Cold Feet
1978
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
1970
The Wild Country
1970
The Over the Hill Gang
1969
Artists and Models
1955
Pardners
1956
Dirty Dingus Magee
1970
The Norseman
1978
Creature from Black Lake
1976
Jinxed!
1982
The Last Challenge
1967
A Ticket to Tomahawk
1950
The Battle at Apache Pass
1952
Count the Hours!
1953
Once Upon a Texas Train
1988
Kansas City Confidential
1952
Ride, Vaquero!
1953
Edge of Eternity
1959
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1976
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
Sartana Does Not Forgive
1968
Key to the City
1950
Princess of the Nile
1954
Never a Dull Moment
1968
The Sundowners
1950
High Lonesome
1950
My Man and I
1952
Bonanza: The Return
1993
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
1974
Grayeagle
1977
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1972
Ride Clear of Diablo
1954
Sacred Ground
1983
Jubilee Trail
1954
One Way Street
1950
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
1950
Hawken's Breed
1987
The Bushwhackers
1951
Skyward Christmas
1981
Hawmps!
1976
Sidekicks
1974
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
1981
Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?
1988
Gun Belt
1953
Ride a Northbound Horse
1969
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955
The Girl in Lovers Lane
1960
Baby Face Nelson
1957
The Red Pony
1973
Appointment in Honduras
1953
The Moonlighter
1953
Pony Express Rider
1976
The Aurora Encounter
1986
Lost
1983
Cattle Queen of Montana
1954
Bird of Paradise
1951
Lure of the Wilderness
1952
Thunder Over Arizona
1956
Bonanza: Under Attack
1995
Finders Keepers
1952
The Giant of Thunder Mountain
1990
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite
1981
Lacy and the Mississippi Queen
1978
The Ring
1952
Big Bad John
1990
Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills
1986
Wild Weed
1949
The Slowest Gun in the West
1960
Dragoon Wells Massacre
1957
Montana Territory
1952
The Winds of Autumn
1976
Uninvited
1993
The Last Rebel
1971
Lure of the Swamp
1957
Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo
1970
Huckleberry Finn
1978
Shadow Force
1992
Cat Ballou
1971
I Am Not a Freak
1987
The Last Escape of Billy the Kid
1972
Scrooge's Rock 'N' Roll Christmas
1984
A Knife for the Ladies
1974