Colorful American character actor equally adept at vicious killers or grizzled sidekicks. I found out when he was a child, another child stabbed him in the eye with a pencil. Jack Elam, whose leer, bulging eye and precise acting skills transformed him from an accountant into one of the movies' most identifiable villains, died on Monday at his home in Ashland, Ore. The only part they put in was to establish who I was. Check out part one, two and three and I'm sure you can find the other seven parts on your own if you so desire. Creature From Black Lake (1976) is a drool inducing piece of garbage that had me sold from the title alone. Read more on Twitter, @amomama_usa. Elam was born in Arizona and lost his mother when he was just two years old. The credits were already written up when I went to work. She turns into a pot peddler and, after discovering this, her brother hangs himself. The marijuana adventure was followed by a small part in Clark Gable's Key to the City (1950), playing a member of the City Council. Posted by: He'll be a jerk til the day he dies. Elam had no control over his wandering eye, “It does whatever the hell it wants,” Jack laughed. Also the trailer for Bigfoot, the trailer for Legend of Boggy Creek and the trailer for Sasquatch. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Main Jack Elam was born in Miami, Arizona in November 1920 and passed away in October 2003. Its advertising copy bragged, "Its Goodtime Glen and and Super Joe ... Doin what they do best!" I hate to be nitpicky, but didn't Namath play for the New York Jets? Elam got his first movie job by trading his accounting services for a role. He was inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame in the early nineties and joked that fame came with a price. Found inside – Page 97The third eye, although it doesn't at all look convincing, required an extensive daylong makeup and wiring job so that the cornea could move.¡7) Of course, Jack Elam's Avery is set up to be the logical choice for alien. The way he told it, a fellow Boy Scout stabbed him in the left eye with a pencil during a scrape at a troop meeting. BLDawley | Mitchum served two months and Leeds got sixty days. I am sure Jack Elam appeared in the Twilight Zone story "The Arrival" briefly. Who's Jack Elam?". Elam was one of those great character actors that filled movie fans with giddiness when he appeared on the screen. An uncredited Marilyn Monroe joined the uncredited Elam in A Ticket to Tomahawk. Interviewed in "Bad at the Bijou" by William R. Horner (McFarland, 1982). December 19, 2008 at 03:08 AM. Posted by: The opening sequence is here. Norwood (1970) starred the trio of Namath, Glen Campbell and Dom DeLuise. Burt Kennedy enlisted Jack to join him again, later in the year, for a grim and rather sexual western starring Raquel Welch titled Hannie Caulder. this was an excellent tribute to one of my favorite memories growing up. Starring Dick Van Dyke and put together by a former actor and director of Van Dyke's old show named Jerry Paris, it is yet another "classic" comedy whose actors are far funnier than the film itself. In fact, I have seen him in so many westerns, movies and TV shows, I became curious about his eye. The picture is in the Bigfoot (1970), Legend of Boggy Creek (1973), Sasquatch: The Legend of Bigfoot (1977) and Crater Lake Monster (1977) vein. The cowboy that looks like a combination of Neil Young and Marty Feldman.". Damn, you hit it exactly right when you said Elam would've made a hell of a Frankenstein's monster. Forgotten today is his popularity among auteurs like Fritz Lang, Sam Peckinpah and Don Siegel. Watch the entire episode in three parts: Part one, two and three. He exchanged vows with Margaret Jennison in 1961, and the couple remained together until Elam passed away in 2003 of congestive heart failure. He also had returning roles in The Texas Wheelers, Wonderful World of Color, Gunsmoke, The Dakotas, Temple Houston, and Lawman. The Girl in Lover's Lane (1959) had our hero taking a break from his newfound Hollywood gloss to return to his trashy B-movie roots. Elam was the perfect actor to portray a backwoods inbred. I figured on getting my right eye fixed, but it turned out more complicated than I thought. Found inside – Page 136Another kid threw a pencil sticking in the eye resulting from a fight of course, and a sightless eye was Elam's for the rest of his life. William Scott “Jack” Elam was born on November 13, 1919, in Miami, Arizona. Found inside – Page 618... role since winning an he draws a detailed likeness of a killer ferent eye witnesses , Kurosawa came Academy Award ... Jack Elam's bit - part villain Rasputin in this film , with Ethel as the Raw Edge 619 Empress fascinated by his ... The acclaimed actor lost sight in his left eye at the age of 12 after he was accidentally stabbed with a pencil. What Western did Jack have trouble with his "earsight"? This post was tonic to the soul. I'd love to see a clip of that or a trailer. Jack Elam is remembered for portraying villains in Western films. Mr. Elam was my all time best charactor actor In westerns ever,he was the best of the best he will be missed greatly! Found inside – Page 537Jack Elam's Other Eye . 1991 . Lud Heat and Suicide Bridge . 1995 . Other The Shamanism of Intent : Some Flights of Redemption . Uppingham , Rutland , Goldmark Gallery , 1991 . Lights Out for the Territory . London , Cape , 1997 . We laughed and laughed at his comedy. Thanks for recognizing Elam's unique talent. Three movies were made in the early seventies in an attempt to launch the wooden star of the San Francisco 49ers to Hollywood stardom. His last role was a made-for-television Bonanza movie in 1995. Near-great movie, starred Burt Lancaster, think I'm getting the title right. It's just as well that Elam gets killed in the opening minute (perhaps out of mercy). Found inside – Page 93... Scarlet Tracings , fiksjon , 1987 Downriver , roman , 1991 Jack Elam's Other Eye , lyrikk Radon Daughters , roman , 1994 The Ebbing of the Kraft , lyrikk , 1997 Lights out for the Territory , dokumentar , 1997 Slow Chocolate Autopsy ... They were aware of his dependable talents and unmistakable look. Steve McCredie | That blaxploitation classic featured six different NFL stars (including Gene Washington who, years later, was Condoleezza Rice's date at a reception for the Queen). Jimbo | He retired to his ranch in Oregon and died of heart failure in 2003. Found inside – Page 137Born in Miami, Arizona, who grew up picking cotton and lost the sight in his left eye during a boyhood accident when he was ... Jack Elam's Western films: A Ticket to Tomahawk, , High Lonesome, 1950; Rawhide, 1951; High Noon, 1952; ... October 22, 2007 at 01:25 PM. He had lost vision in the eye at age 12 when a fellow Boy Scout jabbed him with a pencil during a scuffle at a troop meeting. The clip from Creature from Black Lake is gone!!! Elam began his career in the late forties when he landed his debut role in She Shoulda Said No. Elam was not so much of an actor as he was a nerve twister. One of Jack's first pictures was She Shoulda Said No! Thanks for the correction to the blatant error. Mr. Elam had no control over his wandering eye. Found inside... Heat Suicide Bridge Flesh Eggs & Scalp Metal : Selected Poems Jack Elam's Other Eye Penguin Modern Poets 10 The Ebbing of the Kraft Conductors of Chaos ( editor ) LANDORS TOWER or The Imaginary Conversations Iain Sinclair Granta Books. Watch the trailer here. 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. Thomas & Elva Stevens | Found inside – Page 336Brett Halsey , Joyce Meadows , Lowell Brown , Jack Elam ; D : Charles R. Rondeau . ... The Girl Next Door de 1998 ( R ) Married doctor Czerny agrees to keep an eye on his neighbor's 18 - year - old hotbabe daughter ( Shannon ) while her ... It happened during a Boy Scout meeting when another boy took a pencil, threw it, and it jabbed his eyeball. September 16, 2008 at 04:33 PM. Rupert told the age-old story of a squirrel finding a bunch of money and donating it to an impoverished vaudevillian. Watch a clip featuring Bruce Dern, Garner and Elam here. The Last Rebel (1971) teamed Jack Elam with football superstar, Joe Namath. Jack Elam was fantastic. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. Get me a young Jack Elam. However, friends of his admitted that he lied about his age to get into the business earlier. They did about a full minute of me in the bar doing my drunken clown act. I think the poster kinda speaks for itself. Did Hopalong Cassidy have a sidekick? Jack is equally remembered portraying the comical buffoon. Listener Kliph | Found inside – Page 350... Leone presents two of the most familiar western character actors from Hollywood—Jack Elam and Woody Strode—who have ... American actors: Elam's eye, Strode's bald head, the fly buzzing around Elam until he traps it in his revolver, ... … Found inside... Leone's 1968 western “Once Upon a Time in the West,” with the close-up of Elam's eye as it stared sideways while a fly buzzed around it. Why?” “Molly, If you compared Jack Elam to Troy Hewitt, Elam would be considered handsome. They were going to cut back and forth between me and the gunfight. May 22, 2008 at 06:23 PM. His first foray into film comedy came in a pair of films from Martin & Lewis. They didn't bother to put mine in, and that's why I didn't get the credit. From the same director as the first Elvis car racing film, Spinout (1966). Before the year was up, Elam appeared in Fritz Lang's only war picture, American Guerrilla in the Philippines and as a gangster in 20th Century Fox's big-budget Love That Brute. But I was very happy because I got to work two days, and there was about a half a day with Cooper and me. Elam was born in Arizona and lost his mother when he was just two years old. "No. No character actor before or since has looked like him, and his physicality only made one think of westerns because he had appeared in so many. The text is by pop culture journalist/author, Lonn Friend and former FHM executive editor, Rob Hill. •Insightful essays •Biographical captions that lend literary depth to the breathtaking photos •Companion feature in post-production ... Michael Powers | The film was thoroughly panned by Mystery Science Theater 3000. When Jack was 12, he, himself, suffered the loss of vision in his left eye when he was involved in a fight at a Boy Scout meeting and was jabbed in the eye with a pencil by another boy. Here's a clip of the young Elam dying a slow death in the film and if you feel like watching the entire movie you can do so here. Elam's career is a tapestry of uneasy cinematic moments. It happened during a Boy Scout meeting when another boy took a pencil, threw it, and it jabbed his eyeball. If you are a copyright owner and believe that your copyrighted works have been used in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, here is our DMCA Notice. Found inside – Page 229Jack Elam's Alamosa Bill – wall-eyed, black-bearded, a 'character' – introduces himself to Lincoln County Marshal Pat Garrett, then proudly listens as his fame is recounted, how he had 'killed old G. B. Denning last year at Silver City ... As a child he worked in the cotton fields. Congestive heart failure Jack Elam, Actor: C'era una volta il West. The weird thing is, nothing about Elam's unique appearance actually suggested the wild west. Trailer is here. October 22, 2007 at 02:15 PM. Found inside – Page 671... Significant Wreckage 1988 , Selected Poems 1970–87 1989 , Jack Elam's Other Eye 1992 ; fiction : White Chappell , Scarlet Tracings 1987 , Downriver 1991 ( Encore Award , James Tait Black Memorial Award 1992 ) , Radon Daughters 1994 ... Richard | After World War II he worked as a bookkeeper for Samuel Goldwyn Studios and then as controller for. You can watch The Great Rupert in its entirety here and you can watch Quicksand (you really should) in its entirety here. Posted by: But then they turned the picture loose with the regular gunfight before they added our stuff, and it got rave reviews. An old vaudeville comedian?" The same company of actors got together in 1971 for Support Your Local Gunfighter, another hilarious western take-off. He was once again cast by one of his biggest fans, Fritz Lang, in the rarely screened picture Moonfleet (1955). September 16, 2008 at 04:31 PM, Posted by: Both pictures were made by veteran western director Burt Kennedy, who would go on to make your favorite movie, Suburban Commando (1991). What breed of horse was topper? By the way, Elam does an interesting turn as the inexplicably named "Fatso Nagel" in 1957's "Baby Face Nelson," which features a rabid Mickey Rooney (what an actor!) Pardners (1956) had Elam in a more suitable position, playing a cowhand in what would be his first of many western spoofs. I'll always remember him till the day we meet again GOD willing. Artists and Models (1955) is generally regarded as the most manic of the pair's many films, and the first of many Jerry Lewis programmers made by Frank Tashlin. The film was directed by future action film God, Don Siegel (Dirty Harry, Charley Varrick, 1964's The Killers). There was about a day of me going into the bar and then of me just wandering around the bar. Thus, the grizzled look later became his trademark in the acting industry. Thanks to his talent for portraying unscrupulous villains, women would often walk up to him in the street and 'whack him' for something one of his characters did on screen. In the 1951-52 period Elam acted in the western features Rawhide, The Bushwackers, The Battle at Apache Pass, Montana Territory and most notably, playing the jailhouse drunk in High Noon. His eye does not stand out in most of his early anonymous roles. Can you hook me up? In Quicksand, Mickey Rooney steals from the cash register of the shop he works in, only to have his pilfering spiral into a menacing series of events involving cops, gangsters and Lorre as a knife wielding carny. In the old days. How about this line-up: Edward G. Robinson, Henry Silva, Dick Bakalyan, Mickey Shaughnessy and Slim Pickens? Jack Elam was inducted into the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum's Hall of Great Western Performers in 1994 https://t.co/zAsJfrl7Wh pic.twitter.com/dZHWSxOZpB. was the name given to the 1961 Twilight Zone episode featuring Elam. Jack Elam was my favorite. Jack Elam joined The Rat Pack in 4 For Texas (1963), a disappointing turn featuring Frankie and Dino with little to show for itself other than cameos from The Three Stooges and Arthur Godfrey. Although Jack is associated almost exclusively with westerns, throughout the nineteen fifties he was a staple in the world of film noir. Jack Elam was blind in his left eye since childhood. Television appearances on interchangeable shows like Cheyenne, Laramie and The Dakotas were not saved from monotony by Jack Elam. It became prevalent after, I assume, he was told it could be his pay dirt. Was known to be skilful in all forms of gambling. | Here are the end credits to the movie, MST3K style. Found inside – Page 113... 76, 83–4 Ebbing of the Kraft, The, 10 Edge of the Orison, 13 Falconer, The, 12 Flesh Eggs & Scalp Metal, 10 Jack Elam's Other Eye, 10 Kodak Mantra Diaries, 8–9, 11, 15, 91 LAND/OR, 13, 80 Landor's Tower, 11, 12–14, 16– 17, 20, 43–4, ... He was known as a villain in many Western films before turning to comedy and was known for his lazy left eye. Found inside – Page 143Jack Elam's Other Eye . Hoarse Commerz , 1991. Poems . 200 copies . Radon Daughters . Jonathan Cape , 1994. Hardback ; cover photograph by Marc Atkins . Novel . Radon Daughters . Vintage , 1995. Subsequent paperback from Granta . He acted as a cowpoke in High Lonesome with future "marijuana addict" John Drew Barrymore. Found inside – Page 54As the first drop of water slaps o› his bare scalp (a physical trait that Leone sought to ironically emphasize, as he did Jack Elam's wandering eye in the same sequence), his face barely moves, but his eyes cloud with irritation. Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1994. Found inside – Page 73Note, in particular, those of Power and Hayward digging a hole in the adobe wall while lying on their stomachs beneath the bunk, or Jack Elam's magnificently ugly leer as he waits for Power ... With his one good eye, his magnificently ... Made a career with his eerie, immobile eye, which was caused by a fight with another kid at age 12. It should go without saying that Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) was the best western (hotel?) Found inside... Kodak Mantra Diaries ( Allen Ginsberg in London ) Poetry Back Garden Poems Muscat's Würm The Birth Rug Lud Heat Suicide Bridge Flesh Eggs & Scalp Metal : Selected Poetry Jack Elam's Other Eye LUD HEAT A Book of Dead Hamlets May 1974 to. Robert Aldrich directed the dull western spoof, making it the first time the two had worked together since Kiss Me Deadly. I looked up what happened to him and was surprised. Also accomplished enough at winning games played with people on sets. The famed Western villain left behind Margaret, as well as his children: Jacqueline, Jeri, and Scott. Found inside – Page 107Elam, William Scott ' Jack' (1920-2003) Actor Elam is best known for his numerous roles as villains in Western ... Born in Miami, Arizona, who grew up picking cotton and lost the sight in his left eye during a boyhood accident when he ... Emma | The odd backwoods hillbilly flick has Elam playing a homosexual hobo. Three movies were made in the early seventies in an attempt to launch the wooden star of the New York Jets to Hollywood stardom. According to her death certificate, the cause of death was paralysis. October 21, 2007 at 02:12 AM. Another contributor wrote in bold, "The producers of this horse dung should be incarcerated." Jack Elam net worth: Jack Elam was an American actor who had a net worth of $2 million. He attended Santa Monica Junior College in California and subsequently became an accountant and, at one time, manager of the Bel Air Hotel. Television writer Dick Landau fired off the useless script and twenty-two years later wrote an episode of The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo titled Disco Fever Comes to Orly. Dale Hazelton | Many of the comedy westerns with Elam, and there were several, were rather labored. Get me a Jack Elam type. Elam lost the sight in his left eye when he was stabbed with a pencil during a boyhood altercation with a fellow Boy Scout. Jack Elam's part (as the drug dealing "Raymond") is small. Had two daughters, Jeri Elam and Jacqueline Elam, and one son. Started out in films as controller for Hopalong Cassidy Productions, but eye problems caused him to resign on doctor's advice. She is, after all, Jack Elam's love child. I have nothing profound or amusing to say about it. Posted by: Was it Vera Cruz where Elam dances with Ernest Borgnine? Found inside – Page 1926In real life he was blind in one eye, while the other roamed ceaselessly. He costarred in two Western televi ... Jack Elam was born William scott Elam in Miami, gila, Arizona, on November 13, 1920, the son of Millard Elam (1887–1965) ... At the age of 12, Jack Elam lost his eyesight in the left eye, after a pencil got stabbed with a pencil during an altercation. In the late 1940’s, Elam was working as a bookkeeper for Samuel Goldwyn Studios. Found inside – Page 186Elam had shied away from the primarily feminine participants at Helen's table, but he hadn't gone so far away that he couldn't keep his eye on P.D. He'd readily admitted to Bodey that since P.D. had become pregnant, Elam's “caveman” ... Hypothetical hilarity ensues. | That casting might seem unthinkable today, but remember, during the first ten years of his acting career, Elam didn't possess as distinct a look. 1950 was an extremely busy year for the unknown actor. It's just a really funny movie. |  Examining his early career, however, demonstrates that he was just as much a film-noir staple as anything else. Does anyone agree? Once again Jack Elam's bit part failed to garner a mention in the credits. (1949), an anti-marijuana exploitation film thrown together in a couple days in order to capitalize on film noir bad boy Robert Mitchum's conviction for marijuana possession. Wonder if those two ever worked together... Posted by: It was often doctored with make-up or shot around in his first several screen appearances. Not only did he lose the sight, but the blind eye kept its off-kilter look for the rest of Elam’s life. The heavy today is usually not my kind of guy. Jack made countless more westerns in the seventies (like Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid), but no matter what, he still set time aside every couple of years for a piece of drive-in camp (perhaps because he knew it would make Kliph Nesteroff salivate). A majority of sources gave 1916 or 1918 as his year of birth. The Sundowners and The Texan Meets Calamity Jane were both low-budget westerns featuring Elam. Found inside – Page 338Paperback Jack Elam's Other Eye ( London : Hoarse Comerz , 1991 ) . 200 copies Downriver , or , the Vessels of Wrath ( London : Paladin Grafton , 1991 ) Radon Daughters ( London : Jonathan Cape , 1994 ) Lights Out for the Territory ... Emma, http://www.marijuanaaddictiontreatment.com, Posted by: He is given no credit either in the show credits or in filographies. He is both obnoxious and ridiculous - and obviously having the time of his life. We went back to he jail cell and did a few shots of me in the cell with Cooper walking around and seeing me in there snoring. Berad | Found inside – Page 542Elams ' home and find out what the problem was . ... Then he said , “ This is very embarrassing for One eye bulged outward and looked off 90 degrees to me , doctor , and I hope ... We appreciate all you've done and looking at Jack Elam ... October 22, 2007 at 08:53 AM. October 22, 2007 at 03:47 PM. Welcome to Beware of the Blog - Enjoy Our Bountiful Feast of Goodies! Young Lee Van Cleef also appears in the movie. that Jack Elam ever appeared in. Predominantly played mean, scheming henchmen in Westerns. Elam. Found inside – Page 81ELAM, JACK • 81 (1968)—a solid Western similar to the Dollars films except that this time Eastwood played a lawman. ... Elam's sagging face and slant-eye look made him perfect as one of the most famous bad guys of the 1950s and 1960s. As a child he worked in the cotton fields. Found inside... Verbals (interview with Kevin Jackson) Edge of the Orison POETRY Back Garden Poems Muscat's Würm The Birth Rug Lud Heat Suicide Bridge Flesh Eggs & Scalp Metal: Selected Poems Jack Elam's Other Eye Penguin Modern Poets 10 The Ebbing ... When ever you saw his name in the credits, you could safely expect a hyper-nervous time of it. Found inside – Page 94Jack Elam had a career with a strange unmovable eye. It was caused by a fight with another boy at age 12. It happened during a Boy Scout meeting when one of the Scouts took a pencil and threw it. The pencil stuck in Elam's eyeball. Other NFL players in The Black Six include Lem Barney, Mean Joe Greene, Willie Lanier, Mercury Morris and Carl Eller. He had lost vision in the eye at age 12 when a fellow Boy Scout jabbed him with a pencil during a scuffle at a troop meeting. She Shoulda Said No! It took little persuading from low-budget huckster (and common filmmaker in the "All-Black Cast" genre) Sam Newfield to convince her to star in a cheap marijuana exploitation feature. It was something which never even crossed my mind. 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