Jack Elam
Birthday
1920/11/13
Day of death
2003/10/20 (82 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Miami, Gila, Arizona, USA
Also know as
William Scott Elam, William Scott "Jack" Elam, جک ایلام
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 o...Read more
Acting
(1961) Pocketful of Miracles
as Cheesecake
(1952) High Noon
as Charlie - Drunk in Jail (uncredited)
(1968) Firecreek
as Norman
(1966) The Night of the Grizzly
as Hank
(1952) Finders Keepers
as Eddie
(1952) Kansas City Confidential
as Pete Harris
(1961) The Comancheros
as Horseface (Comanchero)
(1981) The Cannonball Run
as Doctor
(1957) Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
as Tom McLowery
(1969) Support Your Local Sheriff!
as Jake
(1979) The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
as Big Mac
(1956) Pardners
as Pete
(1976) Hawmps!
as Bad Jack Cutter
(1991) Suburban Commando
as Col. Dustin 'Dusty' McHowell
(1971) Hannie Caulder
as Frank Clemens
(1984) Cannonball Run II
as Doc
(1957) Night Passage
as Shotgun
(1968) Never a Dull Moment
as Ace Williams
(1970) Rio Lobo
as Phillips
(1953) Count the Hours!
as Max Verne
(1978) Hot Lead & Cold Feet
as Rattlesnake
(1952) Rancho Notorious
as Mort Geary
(1957) Baby Face Nelson
as Fatso Nagel
(1955) Moonfleet
as Damen
(1967) The Way West
as Preacher Weatherby
(1955) Artists and Models
as Ivan
(1951) Rawhide
as Tevis
(1950) The Sundowners
as Earl Boyce
(1976) Creature from Black Lake
as Joe Canton
(1966) The Rare Breed
as Deke Simons
(1953) Ride, Vaquero!
as Barton
(1952) The Ring
as Harry Jackson
(1961) The Last Sunset
as Ed Hobbs
(1978) The Norseman
as Death Dreamer
(1963) 4 for Texas
as Dobie
(1955) Kiss Me Deadly
as Charlie Max
(1970) Dirty Dingus Magee
as John Wesley Hardin
(1954) The Far Country
as Frank Newberry
(1955) The Man from Laramie
as Chris Boldt
(1971) Support Your Local Gunfighter
as Jug May
(1997) Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
as Self
(1957) Dragoon Wells Massacre
as Tioga
(1958) The Gun Runners
as Arnold
(1951) Bird of Paradise
as The Trader
(1987) Hawken's Breed
as Tackett
(1969) The Over the Hill Gang
as Sheriff Clyde Barnes
(1950) American Guerrilla in the Philippines
as The Speaker
(1974) Sidekicks
as Boss
(1955) Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
as Burger
(1956) Thunder Over Arizona
as Slats Callahan
(1957) Lure of the Swamp
as Henry Bliss
(1959) Edge of Eternity
as Bill Ward
(1982) Jinxed!
as Otto
(1981) Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
as Troscliar Boudreaux
(1950) High Lonesome
as Smiling Man
(1960) The Girl in Lovers Lane
as Jesse
(1967) The Last Challenge
as Ernest Scarnes
(1972) The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
as Bitterroot
(1971) The Last Rebel
as Matt
(1988) Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?
as Boone
(1953) Gun Belt
as Rusty Kolloway
(1968) Sartana Does Not Forgive
as Slim Kovacs
(1955) Wichita
as Al
(1988) Once Upon a Texas Train
as Jason Fitch
(1970) The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
as Kittrick
(1990) The Giant of Thunder Mountain
as Hezekiah Crow
(1950) One Way Street
as Arnie (uncredited)
(1979) The Villain
as Avery Simpson
(1954) Princess of the Nile
as Basra
(1955) Man Without a Star
as Knife Murderer (uncredited)
(1983) Sacred Ground
as Lum Witcher
(1992) Shadow Force
as Tommy
(1953) Appointment in Honduras
as Castro
(1990) Big Bad John
as Jake Calhoun
(1976) The Winds of Autumn
as J. Pete Hankins
(1974) A Knife for the Ladies
as Jarrod (Sheriff)
(1952) Lure of the Wilderness
as Dave Longden
(1960) The Slowest Gun in the West
as Ike Dalton
(1972) The Last Escape of Billy the Kid
as Pat Garrett
(1950) Key to the City
as Councilman (uncredited)
(1986) Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills
as Squires
(1986) The Aurora Encounter
as Charlie
(1973) The Red Pony
as Granddad
(1952) My Man and I
as Celestino Garcia
(1978) Lacy and the Mississippi Queen
as Willie Red Fire
(1981) Skyward Christmas
as Clay Haller
(1993) Uninvited
as Grady
(1952) The Battle at Apache Pass
as Mescal Jack
(1969) Ride a Northbound Horse
as Sheriff
(1956) Jubal
as McCoy
(1973) Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
as Alamosa Bill Kermit
(1953) The Moonlighter
as Slim
(1951) The Bushwhackers
as Cree
(1977) Grayeagle
as Trapper Willis
(1954) Jubilee Trail
as Whitey
(1954) Vera Cruz
as Tex
(1987) I Am Not a Freak
as Self
(1952) Montana Territory
as Gimp
(1954) Cattle Queen of Montana
as Yost
(1954) Ride Clear of Diablo
as Tim Lowerie
(1983) Lost
as Mr. Newsom
(1993) Bonanza: The Return
as Buckshot
(1995) Bonanza: Under Attack
as Buckshot
(1974) Shootout in a One-Dog Town
as Handy
(1984) Scrooge's Rock 'N' Roll Christmas
as Scrooge
(1970) The Wild Country
as Thompson
(1976) Pony Express Rider
as Crazy Charlie
(1950) A Ticket to Tomahawk
as Fargo
(1949) Wild Weed
as Raymond - Henchman
(1978) Huckleberry Finn
as King
(1968) Once Upon a Time in the West
as Frank's Gunman
(1955) Kismet
as Hasan-Ben
(1981) The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite
as Seth Beaumont
(1971) Cat Ballou
as Kid Sheleen
(1976) The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
as Bitterroot
(1970) Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo
as Self
(1955) Cheyenne
as ---
(1965) F Troop
as ---
(1991) Home Improvement
as Hick Peterson
(1981) Simon & Simon
as ---
(1971) Alias Smith and Jones
as ---
(1957) Tales of Wells Fargo
as Chris
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Dolph Quince
(1977) Eight Is Enough
as ---
(1981) Father Murphy
as ---
(1959) The Twilight Zone
as Avery
(1959) Bonanza
as Dodie Hoad
(1961) Target: The Corruptors!
as ---
(1960) Outlaws
as ---
(1958) Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
as ---
(1959) Rawhide
as Turkey Creek Jack Johnson
(1957) Have Gun, Will Travel
as ---
(1967) Cimarron Strip
as ---
(1964) Daniel Boone
as Petch
(1968) The Outcasts
as ---
(1967) The High Chaparral
as Macklin
(1968) Lancer
as ---
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Lee Dineen
(1957) Richard Diamond, Private Detective
as Danny Boy
(1957) M Squad
as Luke Morgan
(1958) Bronco
as ---
(1966) Tarzan
as ---
(1967) Hondo
as ---
(1960) National Velvet
as Black Barr
(1959) The Rebel
as Uncle Luce
(1963) The Dakotas
as Deputy J.D. Smith
(1958) The Rifleman
as ---
(1958) Lawman
as ---
(1957) Sugarfoot
as Toothy Thompson
(1961) Ben Casey
as ---
(1958) The Texan
as ---
(1972) The Brian Keith Show
as ---
(1979) The Sacketts
as Ira Bigelow
(1956) Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Hock Ellis
(1977) Grizzly Adams
as Gus
(1965) The Legend of Jesse James
as Deacon Smith
(1959) Tightrope
as ---
(1955) Frontier
as Ness Fowler
(1985) Detective in the House
as ---
(1957) The Restless Gun
as Tony Molinor
(1952) Mr. & Mrs. North
as ---
(1986) Easy Street
as ---
(1987) J.J. Starbuck
as ---
(1979) Struck by Lightning
as Frank
(1957) Zorro
as Gomez (uncredited)
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Halleck
(1963) Temple Houston
as George Taggart
(1971) Nichols
as Marcus A.F. Baxter
(1957) Richard Diamond, Private Detective
as Perk Butler
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Steed
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Clint Dodie
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Ben
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Hector
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Specter
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Del Ordman
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Sam Band
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Jim Barrett
(1955) Gunsmoke
as William Prange
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Lucas Murdoch
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Titus Spangler
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Pierre Audubon
(1956) Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Little Jimmy Lehigh
(1956) Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Stage Driver Cass
(1952) Four Star Playhouse
as Vic
(1949) The Lone Ranger
as Reno Lawrence
(1978) Black Beauty
as Jonas McBride
(1959) Bonanza
as Honest John
(1958) The Texan
as Luke Watson
(1959) Bonanza
as Buford Buckalew
(1977) How the West Was Won
as Cully Madigan
(1959) The Untouchables
as Jug Alverson
(1962) The Virginian
as Harve Yost
(1988) Paradise
as Skragg
(1958) Lawman
as Herm Forrest
(1972) Kung Fu
as Marcus Taylor
(1992) Lucky Luke
as Axel Ericson
(1955) Screen Director's Playhouse
as Shanks
(1955) Cheyenne
as Calhoun Durango
(1959) The Untouchables
as Nick Bravo
(1957) Have Gun, Will Travel
as Arnold Shaffner
(1954) The Wonderful World of Disney
as Sheriff
(1959) Mr. Lucky
as Phil Bricker
(1967) The Guns of Will Sonnett
as Sam - Sheriff
(1958) Lawman
as Paul Henry
(1960) Stagecoach West
as Clell
(1959) Laramie
as Parson Hawks
(1979) $weepstake$
as ---
(1957) The Restless Gun
as Link Jerrod
(1958) The Rifleman
as Russell
(1965) The Wild Wild West
as Zack Slade