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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 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 out-of-kilter left eye, sightless from a childhood fight. He appeared with great aplomb in Westerns and gangster films alike, and in later years played to wonderful effect in comedic roles.
As actor
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Bonanza: Under Attack
Uninvited
Bonanza: The Return
Shadow Force
Suburban Commando
The Giant of Thunder Mountain
Big Bad John
Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?
Once Upon a Texas Train
Hawken's Breed
I Am Not a Freak
Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills
The Aurora Encounter
Cannonball Run II
Scrooge's Rock 'N' Roll Christmas
Sacred Ground
Lost
Jinxed!
The Cannonball Run
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
Skyward Christmas
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
The Villain
Hot Lead & Cold Feet
The Norseman
Lacy and the Mississippi Queen
Huckleberry Finn
Grayeagle