ELAM
(EE-luhm)
American
film actor who appeared mostly in westerns
Common
clues: Jack of “Rio Lobo”; Jack of oaters; Jack of
westerns; Oater
actor Jack; Jack of “Big Bad John”
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Jack
Elam (November 13, 1918—October 20, 2003) was an American
film actor who appeared mostly in westerns.
He
attended Santa Monica Junior College in California and
subsequently became an accountant in Hollywood and, at one time,
manager of the Bel Air Hotel in Los Angeles. His face is
memorable in part because of an out-of-kilter blind left eye. In
interviews, Elam admitted that he got the slow eye after a fellow
Boy Scout stabbed him in the left eye with a pencil during a
scrape at a troop meeting. He appeared mostly in westerns and
gangster films playing "heavies". In 1963 he got a rare
chance to play the good guy when he played the part of Deputy
Marshall J.D.Smith in "The Dakotas", a TV western which
was to run for 19 episodes. Elam was given his first comedic role
in Support Your Local Sheriff!, after which he found his
villainous assignments dwindling and his comic jobs increasing.
He was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the
National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1994.
Elam
died of heart failure on October 20, 2003.
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Th- >1 03 Jack of oaters
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Mo+ >1 96 Actor Jack WEBB
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Th- >1 06 Jack of old oaters
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Mo+ >1 00 Jack of westerns
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>1 88 Biblical land EDOM MOAB
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Th- >1 07 Broncos kicker Jason
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Mo+ >1 08 NFL kicker Jason
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We+ >1 09 NFL placekicker Jason
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Th >1 01 Character actor Jack
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Fr- >1 87 Its capital was Susa
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We >1 08 Jack of "Big Bad John"
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We CSy 03 Jack who played Jake in "Big Bad John"
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Tu >1 01 Jason of the N.F.L.
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Th NYT 02 Kingdom east of Babylonia
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Fr CSy 99 "Big Bad John" actor Jack
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Sa NYT 97 "Rio Lobo" actor
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Th NYT 00 63-yard field goal kicker Jason
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We NYT 92 Actor Jack from Miami, Ariz.
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Th WSJ 99 Actor Jack of oaters
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We CSy 01 Actor Jack of old westerns
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Th Rea 99 Actor Jack who often plays malevolent gunslingers
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Sa NYT 87 Ancient Asian kingdom
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Ancient Asian land ARAM
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