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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 ...
- November 13, 1920
- October 20, 2003
Jack Elam (1920-2003) 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 ...
- January 1, 1
- Miami, Arizona, USA
- January 1, 1
- Ashland, Oregon, USA
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.
Elam’s last credit was “Bonanza: Under Fire,” a 1995 TV movie. In addition to Jenny, his wife of 42 years, Elam is survived by three children, Jeri, Scott and Jacqueline; three grandchildren ...
Jack Elam (1920–2003) 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. Elam was born in Miami, Arizona, on November 13, 1920.
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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.
William Scott "Jack" Elam (13 November 1920 – 20 October 2003) was an American actor best known for his long career (seventy-three films and forty-one different television series) in westerns. He started playing a lot of villains, but later in his life took on mostly comedic roles, many of which spoofed his earlier appearances as the bad guy.
