Jack Elam
Acting
Born: 1920-11-13 · Miami, Gila, Arizona, USA
Died: 2003-10-20
Biography
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 o
🎬 Movies (20)
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
Self
Bonanza: Under Attack
1995
Buckshot
Bonanza: The Return
1993
Buckshot
Uninvited
1993
Grady
Shadow Force
1992
Tommy
Suburban Commando
1991
Col. Dustin 'Dusty' McHowell
The Giant of Thunder Mountain
1990
Hezekiah Crow
Big Bad John
1990
Jake Calhoun
Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?
1988
Boone
Once Upon a Texas Train
1988
Jason Fitch
I Am Not a Freak
1987
Self
Hawken's Breed
1987
Tackett
Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills
1986
Squires
The Aurora Encounter
1986
Charlie
Scrooge's Rock 'N' Roll Christmas
1984
Scrooge
Cannonball Run II
1984
Doc
Lost
1983
Mr. Newsom
Sacred Ground
1983
Lum Witcher
Jinxed!
1982
Otto
Skyward Christmas
1981
Clay Haller
📺 TV Shows (20)
Lucky Luke
1992
Axel Ericson
Home Improvement
1991
Hick Peterson
Paradise
1988
Skragg
J.J. Starbuck
1987
Easy Street
1986
Detective in the House
1985
Simon & Simon
1981
Father Murphy
1981
Struck by Lightning
1979
Frank
The Sacketts
1979
Ira Bigelow
$weepstake$
1979
Black Beauty
1978
Jonas McBride
Eight Is Enough
1977
Grizzly Adams
1977
Gus
How the West Was Won
1977
Cully Madigan
Kung Fu
1972
Marcus Taylor
The Brian Keith Show
1972
Nichols
1971
Marcus A.F. Baxter
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Lancer
1968