Jack Elam
Birthday: 1920-11-13
Place of Birth: Miami, Gila, Arizona, USA
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 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.
Movies
Pocketful of Miracles
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady...
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High Noon
Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has b...
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Firecreek
A peace-loving, part-time sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vi...
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The Night of the Grizzly
Marshall "Big Jim" Cole turns in his badge and heads to Wyoming with his family in order to settle o...
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Kansas City Confidential
An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery....
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The Comancheros
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisone...
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The Cannonball Run
A cross-country road race is based on an actual event, the Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memor...
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their partic...
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Support Your Local Sheriff!
In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get toug...
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The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
Amos and Theodore, the two bumbling outlaw wannabes from The Apple Dumpling Gang, are back and tryin...
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Pardners
Rich momma's boy Wade Kingsley Jr. an Eastern dude, tries to follow in his murdered father's footste...
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Hawmps!
In old-west Texas, the cavalry's horses can't take the heat. So the military sends them camels inste...
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Suburban Commando
Shep Ramsey is an interstellar hero, righting wrongs, etc. His ship is damaged after a fight with an...
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Hannie Caulder
After she's raped by the outlaw trio who murdered her husband, a frontierswoman hires a bounty hunte...
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Cannonball Run II
When a wealthy sheikh puts up $1 million in prize money for a cross-country car race, there is one p...
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Night Passage
Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw, the Utica K...
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Never a Dull Moment
When practicing for a role, actor Jack is mistaken for the killer Ace. He doesn't realize this until...
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Rio Lobo
After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the l...
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Hot Lead & Cold Feet
Twin brothers -- one rough and tough, the other a city-bred milquetoast -- compete for their father'...
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Rancho Notorious
A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, A...
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Baby Face Nelson
Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful m...
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Moonfleet
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dor...
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The Way West
In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to...
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Artists and Models
A struggling painter begins taking inspiration from the dreams of his friend and roommate, a comic b...
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Rawhide
At a desolate relay station in the west, a stagecoach attendant and a stranded woman traveller are h...
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The Sundowners
Brother is pitted against brother in this tale of fueding ranchers in the old west....
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Creature from Black Lake
Some fishermen are attacked in the Louisiana swamps. When the word gets out of a mysterious Bigfoot-...
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The Rare Breed
When her husband dies en route to America, Martha Price and her daughter Hilary are left to carry ou...
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Ride, Vaquero!
Two Mexican outlaws, Rio and Esqueda, raised as stepbrothers, have a showdown over the issue of whet...
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The Ring
A young Mexican/American learns about life both inside and out of the ring when he takes up boxing....
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The Last Sunset
At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenri...
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The Norseman
An 11th-century Viking prince sails to America to find his father, who on a previous voyage had been...
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4 for Texas
In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galvest...
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Kiss Me Deadly
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, wh...
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Dirty Dingus Magee
Ass-breaker Dingus Magee is looking for a gold train when he comes upon old acquaintance Hoke Birdsi...
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The Far Country
During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run af...
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The Man from Laramie
Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells ri...
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Support Your Local Gunfighter
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he...
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Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western....
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Dragoon Wells Massacre
A cavalry officer, the sole survivor of an Indian attack, and a wagon load of prisoners travel throu...
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The Gun Runners
Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban r...
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Bird of Paradise
Andre Laurence accompanies his college roommate, Tenga, back to Tenga's Polynesian island home. Ther...
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Hawken's Breed
Hawken is a rugged drifter and loner who meets and comes to rescue a young Shawnee woman, named Spir...
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The Over the Hill Gang
A retired Texas Ranger and three aged pals help to clean up a town run by a crooked mayor, a drunken...
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American Guerrilla in the Philippines
American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fi...
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Sidekicks
Travelling through the West right after the Civil War, two con men hatch a scheme to try to collect ...
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Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Hunters trespass into Sukulu country, where animals are sacred, posing as photographers....
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Thunder Over Arizona
Ervin Plummer-played by the estimable George Macready, who like his good friend Vincent Price was a ...
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Lure of the Swamp
Simon Lute ekes out a modest living chartering his skiff to tourists and guiding them through the la...
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Edge of Eternity
Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O'Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin wor...
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Jinxed!
Harold, a professional gambler, and his girlfriend Bonita, a lounge singer, follow Willie, a young b...
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Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
In a small Southern town, the local sheriff tries to keep everything peaceful and under control....
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High Lonesome
When a sudden spurt of murders occurs in the Big Bend country, suspicion immediately falls on a youn...
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The Last Challenge
An upstart outlaw baits a legendary gunslinger, now a marshal in love with a saloon keeper....
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The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
Due to a home-steading law, a fur trapper schemes to keep his land by hiring a hooker, a pickpocket ...
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The Last Rebel
Set in 1865 in southwest Missouri, at the close of the Civil War the film follows the adventures of ...
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Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?
A pair of thieves are pursued by the U.S. Army, the Mexican federales and Apaches in this made-for-T...
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Gun Belt
Gunfighter Billy Ringo decides to hang up his guns, buy a ranch and marry Arlene Reach. His brother ...
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Sartana Does Not Forgive
Jorge Martin is relentlessly stalking a gang of outlaws led by the ruthless Slim who raped and murde...
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Wichita
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kans...
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Once Upon a Texas Train
Captain Hayes of the mighty law enforcement squad named the Texas Rangers reached the pinnacle of hi...
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The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
A simple-minded blacksmith named Charley, well loved by the townsfolk, saves for a year to send off ...
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The Giant of Thunder Mountain
A mountain man is falsely accused of the murder of his parents....
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One Way Street
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico t...
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The Villain
Handsome Stranger has agreed to escort Charming Jones to collect her inheritance from her father. Bu...
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Princess of the Nile
Shalimar, an Egyptian princess, striving to rid her country of its Bedouin conquerors, forms an alli...
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Sacred Ground
SACRED GROUND tells the fact-based story of a mountain man and his Indian wife who happen upon a par...
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Shadow Force
Policemen by Day - Assassins at Night. A story all too familiar yet amazing to see. Follow the daily...
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Appointment in Honduras
On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicar...
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Big Bad John
Jimmy Dean's popular 1950 song is translated into a feature length movie about a young couple who el...
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The Winds of Autumn
In 1884, an eleven-year-old Quaker boy sets out on his own to seek revenge against a gang of outlaws...
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A Knife for the Ladies
A mutilating knife-killer haunts the small Southwest-desert town of Mescal. Though most victims have...
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Lure of the Wilderness
A young girl and her father, who is unjustly accused of murder, seek refuge in a Georgia swamp until...
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The Slowest Gun in the West
The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A....
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Key to the City
At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New...
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Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills
Two young survivors of a wagon-train massacre battle horse thieves as they take a prize stallion thr...
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The Aurora Encounter
In 1897, residents of a small Texas town are visited by a benevolent extraterrestrial being whose pr...
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The Red Pony
A young farmboy who can't seem to communicate with his father develops an attachment to a young red ...
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My Man and I
In California, a Mexican-American laborer is falsely accused of shooting the racist farmer he was wo...
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Lacy and the Mississippi Queen
This lighthearted Western was an unsuccessful series pilot in which two sisters -- a gun-toting tomb...
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Skyward Christmas
In this sequel to "Skyward" and pilot to a prospective series, Julie attempts a secret flight to bri...
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Uninvited
A fortune in gold lures 8 misfits to an Indian burial ground, resulting in murder....
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The Battle at Apache Pass
Major Jim Colton is a sympathetic leader who has a working relationship with Apache leader Cochise. ...
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Ride a Northbound Horse
Fifteen-year-old Cav Rand purchases a racehorse and trains him into a winner, but a con artist is pl...
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Jubal
Jubal Troop is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. He is given shelter a...
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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring d...
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The Moonlighter
Wes Anderson (Fred MacMurray) is caught cattle rustling and promptly jailed. The public is outraged,...
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The Bushwhackers
Confederate veteran Jeff Waring arrives in Independence, Missouri shortly after the Civil War, inten...
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Grayeagle
A young Cheyenne warrior, who goes by the name Grayeagle, kidnaps the daughter of a grizzled frontie...
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Jubilee Trail
A wild-west trader and his New York wife head out for the California by wagon train. The trader is k...
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Vera Cruz
After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. T...
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I Am Not a Freak
This film is a fascinating look at some people afflicted with congenital deformities of an extreme n...
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Montana Territory
John Malvin , prospecting the Montana territory during the gold rush, sees bandits kill a miner and ...
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Cattle Queen of Montana
Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers....
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Ride Clear of Diablo
A young railroad surveyor returns to his hometown to find the man who murdered his father and brothe...
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Bonanza: The Return
A man with a grudge against the late Little Joe seeks revenge on the Cartwrights and attempts to tak...
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Bonanza: Under Attack
After a rogue band of Pinkerton detectives led by ruthless Charley Siringo bushwhacks reformed outla...
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Shootout in a One-Dog Town
A small-town banker is forced to protect his town against a vicious gang of bank robbers determined ...
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Scrooge's Rock 'N' Roll Christmas
Scrooge is visited by a girl with a snow globe—which shows him people like Mike Love and Three Dog N...
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The Wild Country
Uprooted from their comfortable home in Pennsylvania, James and Kate Tanner, along with their sons, ...
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Pony Express Rider
A young Texas Man who saw his father get killed by a group of bandits, decides years later to go to ...
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A Ticket to Tomahawk
A cowboy is hired by a stagecoach boss to stop the railroad reaching his territory and putting him o...
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Wild Weed
A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking mariju...
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Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his ...
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Once Upon a Time in the West
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jil...
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Kismet
A silver-tongued poet and self-proclaimed "King of the Beggars" searches old Baghdad for a rich bach...
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The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite
In this sequel to "The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything," down-on-his-luck Kirby Winter inherits a ...
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Cat Ballou
A pretty ranch owner hires a drunken gunslinger and his two companions to protect her ranch from out...
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The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
Three young women who posed as the daughters of an elderly homesteader find out that he has been fal...
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Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo
George Plimpton got a job playing one of the bad guys in the Howard Hawks-directed John Wayne Wester...
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