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Jack Elam
Age: 82 (passed away Oct. 20th, 2003)
Height: 6'
Birth Place: Miami, Gila, Arizona, USA
Born: Nov. 13th, 1920
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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.
TRIVIA:
- Was known to be great at all forms of gambling. Also great at winning games played with people on sets.
- Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1994.
- Interviewed in "Bad at the Bijou" by William R. Horner (McFarland, 1982).
- Son: 'Scott Elam' (qv).
- Daughters: Jeri Elam and Jacqueline Elam.
- He once described the career of a character actor. It went like this: "Who's Jack Elam? Get me Jack Elam. Get me a Jack Elam type. Get me a young Jack Elam. Who's Jack Elam?"
- Made an infamous career with his eerie, immobile eye, which was caused by a fight with another kid at the age of 12. It happened during a Boy Scout meeting when another boy took a pencil, threw it, and it jabbed his eyeball.
- Died two months after 'Charles Bronson' (qv).
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