Jack Elam
Acting
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.
Shows
The Twilight Zone
Bonanza
Have Gun, Will Travel
The Virginian
Home Improvement
The Rifleman
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Rawhide
The Untouchables
Cheyenne
The Wild Wild West
Lawman
Ben Casey
Zorro
Simon & Simon
Daniel Boone
The Lone Ranger
The High Chaparral
Eight Is Enough
Gunsmoke
The Rebel
F Troop
M Squad
Alias Smith and Jones
Lancer
The Texan
Tarzan
Laramie
Bronco
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
How the West Was Won
Sugarfoot
Tales of Wells Fargo
Studio 57
Hondo
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
The Guns of Will Sonnett
Tightrope
Mr. Lucky
Nichols
Outlaws
Screen Director's Playhouse
Grizzly Adams
The Restless Gun
Mr. & Mrs. North
Cimarron Strip
Stagecoach West
Target: The Corruptors!
The Legend of Jesse James
Gunslinger
The Outcasts
J.J. Starbuck
The Dakotas
The Sacketts
Father Murphy
Lucky Luke
National Velvet
Paradise
Frontier
The Brian Keith Show
Temple Houston
Black Beauty
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Easy Street
Struck by Lightning
Kung Fu