Gender: Male
Born: 13th November 1918
Died: 20th October 2003
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Sacketts,
Easy Street,
Temple Houston,
The Texas Wheelers,
Struck by Lightning,
Sugarfoot,
The Dakotas,
Dobe and a Company of Heroes,
Detective in the House,
The Over-the-Hill Gang,
Struck by LightningMovies: Kiss Me Deadly,
Rio Lobo,
Support Your Local Sheriff!,
The Comancheros,
The Villain,
The Way West,
Support Your Local Gunfighter!,
Vera Cruz,
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again,
Sacred Ground,
Baby Face Nelson,
The Over-the-Hill Gang,
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle,
Bonanza: Under Attack,
"She Shoulda Said 'No'!",
Uninvited,
The Girl in Lovers Lane,
Count the Hours,
Jinxed!,
Jubal,
Thunder Over Arizona,
Hawmps!,
Hannie Caulder,
The Cannonball Run,
Suburban Commando,
Soggy Bottom U.S.A.,
The Far Country,
Once Upon a Time in the West,
The Rare Breed,
Kansas City Confidential,
The Man from Laramie,
The Sundowners,
Cattle Queen of Montana,
High Lonesome,
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid,
Hot Lead and Cold Feet,
The Battle at Apache Pass,
Never a Dull Moment,
Pony Express Rider,
Big Bad John,
The Ring,
Night Passage,
Creature from the Black Lake,
Bonanza: The Return,
Kismet,
Once Upon a Texas Train,
The Norseman,
The Gun Runners,
Grayeagle,
Lure of the Swamp,
The Night of the Grizzly,
Huckleberry Finn,
The Aurora Encounter,
Where the Hell's That Gold?, ,
Dirty Dingus Magee,
My Man and I,
Down the Long HillsWilliam Scott "Jack" Elam (November 13, 1920 – October 20, 2003) was an American film actor best known for his numerous roles as villains in Western films and, later in his career, comedies (sometimes spoofing his villainous image).
Elam was born in Miami, Arizona, to Millard Elam and Alice Amelia Kirby. Kirby died in 1924, when young Jack was not quite four years old. By 1930, he was once again living with his father, older sister Mildred, and their stepmother, Flossie (Varney).
He grew up picking cotton. He lost the sight in his left eye during a boyhood accident when he was stabbed with a pencil at a Boy Scout meeting. He was a student of both Miami High School in Gila County and Phoenix Union High School in Maricopa County and graduated from the latter in the late 1930s.
He attended Santa Monica Junior College in California and subsequently became an accountant in Hollywood; one of his clients was movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn. At one time, he was the manager of the Bel Air Hotel in Los Angeles.
In 1949, Elam made his debut in She Shoulda Said No!, an exploitation film where a chorus girl's marijuana smoking ruins her career and drives her brother to suicide. He appeared mostly in
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