
Person
Jack Elam
Acting
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 13, 1920
- Died
- Oct 20, 2003
- From
- Miami, Gila, Arizona, USA
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.
Images
Credits

Once Upon a Time in the West

High Noon

The Twilight Zone

Home Improvement

The Cannonball Run

Bonanza

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Kiss Me Deadly

Bonanza: The Return

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Cannonball Run II

Rio Lobo

Vera Cruz

The Man from Laramie

Kung Fu

The Comancheros

Zorro

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