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Oct 22, 2003 · October 22, 2003 / 2:06 PM EDT / CBS/AP. Jack Elam, a character actor and favorite Western villain who menaced good-guy cowboys with his crazy grin, wild eyes and remorseless gun-slinging in films ...
Jack Elam was an American actor best known for his roles in Western films and television shows. He was born on November 13, 1920 in Miami, Arizona. He began his career in the 1950s, appearing in films such as "High Noon" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance".
Jack Elam. William Scott " Jack " Elam ( November 13, 1920 [1] – October 20, 2003) was an American film and television actor best known for his numerous roles as villains in Western films, and later in his career, comedies (sometimes spoofing his villainous image). His most distinguishing physical quality was his misaligned eye.
Mar 8, 2013 · Jack’s first big part and still today one of his best ever was in Rawhide (Fox, 1951), a much underrated Western directed by Henry Hathaway. Evil bandit Zimmerman (a terrific Hugh Marlowe) and his ghastly gang of hoodlums (Elam, Dean Jagger and George Tobias, all top notch) have escaped from prison and turn up at a stagecoach way-station lost ...
Jul 25, 2018 · Elam was born in Arizona and lost his mother when he was just two years old. According to her death certificate, the cause of death was paralysis. The acclaimed actor lost sight in his left eye at the age of 12 after he was accidentally stabbed with a pencil. Before pursuing his career in acting, he worked as an accountant, like his father, in ...
Jack Elam. Actor: Once Upon a Time in the West. 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 ...
Jan 1, 2004 · Jack Elam died October 20, 2003, at his home in Ashland, Oregon, after several years of ill health. He was recently named True West’s Best Western Film Villain in our 2003 Best of the West issue because he was the “bad guy we loved to hate.”. When asked about the movie villain of the 1970s, whose bad behavior was often explained away by ...
