Jack Elam
- Recitazione
- 13 novembre 1920 · Miami, Gila, Arizona, USA
- 20 ottobre 2003
Biografia
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.
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Filmografia
- Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western · In persona
- Bonanza: Under Attack · Buckshot
- Bonanza: The Return · Buckshot
- Uninvited · Grady
- Shadow Force · Tommy
- Lucky Luke · Axel Ericson
- Cose dell'altro mondo · Col. Dustin 'Dusty' McHowell
- Quell'uragano di papà · Hick Peterson
- The Giant of Thunder Mountain · Hezekiah Crow
- Big Bad John · Jake Calhoun
- Where the Hell's That Gold?!!? · Boone
- Paradise · Skragg
- Once Upon a Texas Train · Jason Fitch
- I Am Not a Freak · In persona
- J.J. Starbuck
- L'uomo delle grandi pianure · Tackett
- Attraverso le grandi colline · Squires
- Easy Street
- Incontri ravvicinati ad Aurora · Charlie
- Detective in the House
- Scrooge's Rock 'N' Roll Christmas · Scrooge
- La corsa più pazza d'America n. 2 · Doc
- Lost · Mr. Newsom
- Sacred Ground · Lum Witcher
- Un giocatore troppo fortunato · Otto
- Skyward Christmas · Clay Haller
- Simon & Simon
- Father Murphy
- Soggy Bottom, U.S.A. · Troscliar Boudreaux
- La corsa più pazza d'America · Doctor
- The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite · Seth Beaumont
- Struck by Lightning · Frank
- Jack del Cactus · Avery Simpson
- La banda delle frittelle di mele colpisce ancora · Big Mac
- L'avventura dei Sackett · Ira Bigelow
- $weepstake$
- Il principe Thorvald · Death Dreamer
- Teste calde e tanta fifa · Rattlesnake
- Lacy and the Mississippi Queen · Willie Red Fire
- Huckleberry Finn · King
- Black Beauty · Jonas McBride
- Aquila Grigia il grande capo dei Cheyenne · Trapper Willis
- La famiglia Bradford
- Grizzly Adams · Gus
- Alla conquista del west · Cully Madigan
- Pony Express Rider · Crazy Charlie
- The Winds of Autumn · J. Pete Hankins
- The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe · Bitterroot
- Hawmps! · Bad Jack Cutter
- Il mistero del lago nero · Joe Canton
- A Knife for the Ladies · Jarrod (Sheriff)
- Sidekicks · Boss
- Sparatoria a Dog Town · Handy
- Pat Garrett e Billy the Kid · Alamosa Bill Kermit
- The Red Pony · Granddad
- Kung Fu · Marcus Taylor
- The Brian Keith Show
- The Daughters of Joshua Cabe · Bitterroot
- The Last Escape of Billy the Kid · Pat Garrett
- La Texana e i fratelli Penitenza · Frank Clemens
- Il suo nome è Qualcuno · Matt
- Un vero sceriffo · Marcus A.F. Baxter
- Cat Ballou · Kid Sheleen
- L'infallibile pistolero strabico · Jug May
- Due onesti fuorilegge
- Wyoming, terra selvaggia · Thompson
- Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo · In persona
- Dingus, quello sporco individuo · John Wesley Hardin
- Rio Lobo · Phillips
- The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County · Kittrick
- The Over the Hill Gang · Sheriff Clyde Barnes
- Il dito più veloce del West · Jake
- Ride a Northbound Horse · Sheriff
- C'era una volta il West · Frank's Gunman
- Sartana non perdona · Slim Kovacs
- Lancer
- The Outcasts
- L'incredibile furto di Mr. Girasole · Ace Williams
- L'ora della furia · Norman
- Ai confini dell'Arizona · Macklin