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- In one of his first significant roles, ''Rawhide'' (1951), he cemented his reputation as a bad guy by shooting a baby to make it ''dance'' and killing everybody in the picture except Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward. A review in The New York Times mentioned ''a maniacal henchman, played with great disagreeable effect by Jack Elam.''
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Oct 23, 2003 · A review in The New York Times mentioned ''a maniacal henchman, played with great disagreeable effect by Jack Elam.'' Good guys from Frank Sinatra to Henry Fonda gunned him down in...
In 1962, Elam appeared as Paul Henry on Lawman in the episode titled "Clootey Hutter". Elam in 1963 received a rare opportunity to portray the good guy, appearing as a reformed gunfighter, Deputy U.S. Marshal J. D. Smith, in the ABC/Warner Bros. series The Dakotas, a Western intended as the successor of Cheyenne. The Dakotas ran for 19 episodes.
Oct 23, 2003 · LOS ANGELES — Jack Elam, a character actor and favorite Western villain who menaced good-guy cowboys with his crazy grin, wild eyes and remorseless gunslinging in films such as "Rawhide" and...
Jack Elam filmography. This is the filmography of American actor Jack Elam (November 13, 1920 – October 20, 2003), including his film and television appearances, between 1949 and 1995. Jack Elam in Kansas City Confidential.
With a face once described as belonging on a wanted poster, Elam portrayed some of the screen’s meanest, nastiest characters. He tried to knife Stewart in the back in “The Man From Laramie ...
Known as the quintessential villainous character Jack Elam lived in Ashland from 1987 until his death in 2003 at the age of eighty-two. His career in film and television spanned more than forty years, with appearances in over fifty movies and dozens of television shows.
Mar 8, 2013 · In the James Stewart 1955 Western The Man from Laramie, Jack Elam introduces his character: “I can’t give you any references, but anyone can tell you Chris Boldt is not a man to be trusted.” Later on, he tries to stab James Stewart in the back and winds up dead in a dark alley.
