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  1. Jul 25, 2018 · 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 Los Angeles and eventually took an accounting job in Hollywood.

  2. Oct 23, 2003 · Elam, who had been in declining health in recent years, died Monday of congestive heart failure at his home in Ashland, Ore., where he had lived since 1987.

  3. 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.

  4. Oct 23, 2003 · Elam, who had been in declining health in recent years, died Monday afternoon at his home in Ashland, Ore., of unspecified illness, according to longtime friend Al Hassan. Most biographies list the actor as 86 years old, but Hassan said he was actually 84, having lied about his age as a youngster to get work.

  5. Jan 1, 2004 · by R.G. Robertson | Jan 1, 2004 | True Westerners. 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 ...

  6. Oct 23, 2003 · Elam, who had been in declining health in recent years, died Monday afternoon at his home in Ashland, Ore., of unspecified illness, according to longtime friend Al Hassan. Most biographies list...

  7. Jack Elam, actor: born Miami, Arizona 13 November 1916; twice married (one son, two daughters); died Ashland, Oregon 20 October 2003. In the heyday of the Hollywood western, towns such as Deadwood ...

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