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...
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Pocketful of Miracles
As Cheesecake
High Noon
As Charlie - Drunk in Jail (uncredited)
Firecreek
As Norman
The Night of the Grizzly
As Hank
Finders Keepers
As Eddie
Kansas City Confidential
As Pete Harris
The Comancheros
As Horseface (Comanchero)
The Cannonball Run
As Doctor
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
As Tom McLowery
Support Your Local Sheriff!
As Jake
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
As Big Mac
Pardners
As Pete
Hawmps!
As Bad Jack Cutter
Suburban Commando
As Col. Dustin 'Dusty' McHowell
Hannie Caulder
As Frank Clemens
Cannonball Run II
As Doc
Night Passage
As Shotgun
Never a Dull Moment
As Ace Williams
Rio Lobo
As Phillips
Count the Hours!
As Max Verne
Hot Lead & Cold Feet
As Rattlesnake
Rancho Notorious
As Mort Geary
Baby Face Nelson
As Fatso Nagel
Moonfleet
As Damen
The Way West
As Preacher Weatherby
Artists and Models
As Ivan
Rawhide
As Tevis
The Sundowners
As Earl Boyce
Creature from Black Lake
As Joe Canton
The Rare Breed
As Deke Simons
Ride, Vaquero!
As Barton
The Ring
As Harry Jackson
The Last Sunset
As Ed Hobbs
The Norseman
As Death Dreamer
4 for Texas
As Dobie
Kiss Me Deadly
As Charlie Max
Dirty Dingus Magee
As John Wesley Hardin
The Far Country
As Frank Newberry
The Man from Laramie
As Chris Boldt
Support Your Local Gunfighter
As Jug May
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
As Self
Dragoon Wells Massacre
As Tioga
The Gun Runners
As Arnold
Bird of Paradise
As The Trader
Hawken's Breed
As Tackett
The Over the Hill Gang
As Sheriff Clyde Barnes
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
As The Speaker
Sidekicks
As Boss
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
As Burger
Thunder Over Arizona
As Slats Callahan
Lure of the Swamp
As Henry Bliss
Edge of Eternity
As Bill Ward
Jinxed!
As Otto
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
As Troscliar Boudreaux
High Lonesome
As Smiling Man
The Girl in Lovers Lane
As Jesse
The Last Challenge
As Ernest Scarnes
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
As Bitterroot
The Last Rebel
As Matt
Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?
As Boone
Gun Belt
As Rusty Kolloway
Sartana Does Not Forgive
As Slim Kovacs
Wichita
As Al
Once Upon a Texas Train
As Jason Fitch
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
As Kittrick
The Giant of Thunder Mountain
As Hezekiah Crow
One Way Street
As Arnie (uncredited)
The Villain
As Avery Simpson
Princess of the Nile
As Basra
Man Without a Star
As Knife Murderer (uncredited)
Sacred Ground
As Lum Witcher
Shadow Force
As Tommy
Appointment in Honduras
As Castro
Big Bad John
As Jake Calhoun
The Winds of Autumn
As J. Pete Hankins
A Knife for the Ladies
As Jarrod (Sheriff)
Lure of the Wilderness
As Dave Longden
The Slowest Gun in the West
As Ike Dalton
The Last Escape of Billy the Kid
As Pat Garrett
Key to the City
As Councilman (uncredited)
Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills
As Squires
The Aurora Encounter
As Charlie
The Red Pony
As Granddad
My Man and I
As Celestino Garcia
Lacy and the Mississippi Queen
As Willie Red Fire
Skyward Christmas
As Clay Haller
Uninvited
As Grady
The Battle at Apache Pass
As Mescal Jack
Ride a Northbound Horse
As Sheriff
Jubal
As McCoy
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
As Alamosa Bill Kermit
The Moonlighter
As Slim
The Silent Partner
As Shanks
The Bushwhackers
As Cree
Grayeagle
As Trapper Willis
Jubilee Trail
As Whitey
Vera Cruz
As Tex
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
As (archive footage)
I Am Not a Freak
As Self
Montana Territory
As Gimp
Cattle Queen of Montana
As Yost
Ride Clear of Diablo
As Tim Lowerie
Lost
As Mr. Newsom
Bonanza: The Return
As Buckshot
Bonanza: Under Attack
As Buckshot
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
As Handy
Scrooge's Rock 'N' Roll Christmas
As Scrooge
The Wild Country
As Thompson
Pony Express Rider
As Crazy Charlie
A Ticket to Tomahawk
As Fargo
Wild Weed
As Raymond - Henchman
Huckleberry Finn
As King
Once Upon a Time in the West
As Frank's Gunman
Kismet
As Hasan-Ben
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite
As Seth Beaumont
Cat Ballou
As Kid Sheleen
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
As Bitterroot
Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo
As Self
Cheyenne
F Troop
Home Improvement
As Hick Peterson
Mr. Lucky
Simon & Simon
Alias Smith and Jones
Tales of Wells Fargo
As Chris
Gunsmoke
As Dolph Quince
Eight Is Enough
Father Murphy
The Twilight Zone
As Avery
Bonanza
As Dodie Hoad
Target: The Corruptors!
Outlaws
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Rawhide
As Turkey Creek Jack Johnson
Have Gun, Will Travel
Cimarron Strip
Daniel Boone
As Petch
The Outcasts
The High Chaparral
As Macklin
Lancer
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
As Lee Dineen
M Squad
As Luke Morgan
Bronco
Tarzan
Hondo
National Velvet
The Rebel
As Uncle Luce
The Rifleman
The Dakotas
Lawman
Sugarfoot
As Toothy Thompson
Ben Casey
The Guns of Will Sonnett
The Texan
The Brian Keith Show
The Sacketts
As Ira Bigelow
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
As Hock Ellis
Grizzly Adams
The Legend of Jesse James
As Deacon Smith
Tightrope
Frontier
Detective in the House
The Restless Gun
As Tony Molinor
Mr. & Mrs. North
Easy Street
J.J. Starbuck
Struck by Lightning
As Frank
Zorro
As Gomez (uncredited)
Temple Houston
As George Taggart
Nichols
As Marcus A.F. Baxter
Four Star Playhouse
As Vic
The Lone Ranger
As Reno Lawrence
Black Beauty
As Jonas McBride
How the West Was Won
As Cully Madigan
The Untouchables
As Jug Alverson
The Virginian
As Harve Yost
Paradise
As Skragg
Kung Fu
As Marcus Taylor
Lucky Luke
As Axel Ericson
Screen Director's Playhouse
As Shanks
The Wonderful World of Disney
As Sheriff