Jack Elam

Jack Elam was a television as well as a film actor from the United States of America. He is best known for acting in villainous roles throughout his film career. He took birth on the 13th of November in the year 1920. The first film in which he worked as an actor was She Shoulda Said No! It involved a girl who worked in chorus singing and got addicted to Marijuana which marked her doom. He appeared mostly in movies which were set up in the west and also ones which included gangster roles. Not only this, but he also appeared on many TV programmes which had a western background.

Some of these were Have Gun Will Travel, The Lone Ranger Click to look into! >> Read More... , The Rebel, and The Rifleman. He mostly played negative roles on screen. However, the TV series, The Dakotas gave him the opportunity to play a heroic role. He plays the character of an individual named George Taggart who is initially a gunslinger. Later on in the series, he becomes a United States Marshal. He was also a part of the motion picture Once Upon a Time in the West. Support Your Local Sheriff! was the movie which granted him his first comical role. Soon after, he worked in the film Support Your Local Gunfighter. In both these motion pictures, he worked alongside the talented actor James Garner James Garner is an actor, voice artist and a produ >> Read More... . Burt Kennedy was the director who gave Jack Elam such different roles for the first time.

He was the person who believed that Elam had tremendous potential in comedy genre movies. He went on to give him parts in at least fifteen more Television programmes as well as films. He acted in The Cannonball Run as well as its second part The Cannonball Run II as a doctor named Nicolas Van Helsing. Having worked in the movie called The Aurora Encounter became special for him as he met a young boy of eleven years of age with the name of Michael Hays. He built a special relationship with Michael Hays. Jack Elam’s name got included into the Hall of Great Western Performers belonging to the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. Easy Street was another comical programme of which he was a part. He got the opportunity to work alongside the actor Willie Nelson Willie Nelson, originally, Willie Hugh Nelson, an >> Read More... in the movie Where the Hell’s That Gold? He lost his life on the 20th of October in the year 2003. His last resting place was the city of Ashland in the state of Oregon where he died due to a heart problem.