Jack Elam

Jack Elam (born November 13, 1918 in Miami, Arizona; died October 20, 2003 in Ashland, Oregon) was an American film actor who appeared mostly in westerns.

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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", and in later years played comedic roles. 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.

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Elam died of heart failure on October 20, 2003.

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1918: 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar....

Miami, Arizona: Miami is a town located in Gila County, Arizona, United States. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,936....

October 20: October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 72 days remaining....

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