Jack Elam

Jack Elam

November 13, 1920 · 105 years old

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 jo…

Known For

34 titles
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Once Upon a Time in the West

Once Upon a Time in the West

1968 · 2h 25m · Movie

A mysterious stranger with a harmonica teams up with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow and her land from a ruthless assassin in the employ of a railroad tycoon.

8.5
2
The Cannonball Run

The Cannonball Run

1981 · 1h 35m · Movie

A wide variety of eccentric competitors participate in a wild and illegal cross-country road race. However, the eccentric entrants will do anything to win the road race, including low-down, dirty tricks.

6.2
3
Kiss Me Deadly

Kiss Me Deadly

1955 · 1h 46m · Movie

A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit".

7.5
4
Rio Lobo

Rio Lobo

1970 · 1h 54m · Movie

After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the two traitors whose treachery caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.

6.7
5
Support Your Local Sheriff!

Support Your Local Sheriff!

1969 · 1h 32m · Movie

In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough. In the end, he uses ingenuity instead.

7.4
6
The Man from Laramie

The Man from Laramie

1955 · 1h 43m · Movie

Newcomer Will Lockhart defies the local cattle baron and his sadistic son by working for one of his oldest rivals.

7.3
7
Suburban Commando

Suburban Commando

1991 · 1h 30m · Movie

An interstellar hero from a distant world visits Earth, and tries to fit in with a mundane, yet kind, suburban family.

4.6
8
The Comancheros

The Comancheros

1961 · 1h 47m · Movie

Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves dealing with the Comanches known as Comancheros.

6.8
9
Kansas City Confidential

Kansas City Confidential

1952 · 1h 39m · Movie

An ex-con trying to go straight is framed for a million dollar armored car robbery and must go to Mexico in order to unmask the real culprits.

7.3
10
Support Your Local Gunfighter

Support Your Local Gunfighter

1971 · 1h 31m · Movie

A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.

6.8
11
Rancho Notorious

Rancho Notorious

1952 · 1h 29m · Movie

After the murder of his fiancée, a Wyoming ranch hand sets out to find her killer.

6.8
12
Jubal

Jubal

1956 · 1h 40m · Movie

A new foreman rejects the sexual advances of a frustrated rancher's wife, which leads to conflicts that could get him killed.

7.1
13
Night Passage

Night Passage

1957 · 1h 30m · Movie

A fired railroad man is re-hired and entrusted to carry a ten thousand dollar payroll in secret, even though he is suspected of being connected to outlaws.

6.6
14
Artists and Models

Artists and Models

1955 · 1h 49m · Movie

Rick Todd uses the dreams of his roommate Eugene as the basis for a successful comic book.

6.4
15
Hannie Caulder

Hannie Caulder

1971 · 1h 25m · Movie

After she is raped by the trio of outlaw brothers who murdered her husband, a frontierswoman hires a bounty hunter to instruct her in the use of a gun so she can exact her revenge.

6.4
16
Firecreek

Firecreek

1968 · 1h 44m · Movie

A peace-loving, part-time Sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vicious outlaws takes over his town.

6.8
17
The Rare Breed

The Rare Breed

1966 · 1h 37m · Movie

An English woman and her daughter enlist the aid of a cowboy to try and get their hardy hornless bull to mate with the longhorns of Texas, but have to overcome greedy criminals and the natural elements.

6.3
18
The Way West

The Way West

1967 · 2h 2m · Movie

In 1843, a former U.S. Senator leads a wagon train of settlers to Oregon, but his megalomania leads to growing dissatisfaction with his leadership.

6.2
19
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again

1979 · 1h 28m · Movie

The adventures of two idiotic outlaw wannabees, Amos and Theodore.

6.0
20
Rawhide

Rawhide

1951 · 1h 29m · Movie

A stagecoach stop employee and a stranded woman traveller find themselves at the mercy of four desperate outlaws intent on robbing the next day's gold shipment.

7.1
21
Wichita

Wichita

1955 · 1h 21m · Movie

In 1874, after noticing the total lawlessness in Wichita, Wyatt Earp reluctantly accepts the Marshal's job and runs into the worst local troublemakers.

6.9
22
Creature from Black Lake

Creature from Black Lake

1976 · 1h 31m · Movie

Two men exploring the Louisiana swamps encounter a Bigfoot-type creature.

5.0
23
Jinxed!

Jinxed!

1982 · 1h 43m · Movie

Bette Midler is on a roll through Reno, Vegas, and Tahoe with Rip Torn as her semi-professional gambler husband, and Ken Wahl as a seductive blackjack dealer. In HD.

4.7
24
Edge of Eternity

Edge of Eternity

1959 · 1h 20m · Movie

In the 1950s, Arizona Deputy Sheriff Les Martin is pressured by his community to solve a string of mysterious murders around a mining ghost town in the Grand Canyon.

6.4
25
One Way Street

One Way Street

1950 · 1h 19m · Movie

After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico.

6.5
26
The Gun Runners

The Gun Runners

1958 · 1h 23m · Movie

The Cuban misadventures of a Florida smuggler, at the time of the Cuban Revolution.

6.3
27
Never a Dull Moment

Never a Dull Moment

1968 · 1h 39m · Movie

Actor Jack Albany, who plays gangsters on TV, is mistaken for notorious hit-man Ace, and is hired by mob boss Leo Smooth to pull a heist, but Jack must find a way out of it.

6.1
28
Once Upon a Texas Train

Once Upon a Texas Train

1988 · 1h 36m · Movie

An outlaw and a Texas Ranger Captain have a life-long personal feud, but twenty years later, with old-age settling in, they must put their differences aside in order to face the latest Texas problem, the youngest generation of out...

5.7
29
A Ticket to Tomahawk

A Ticket to Tomahawk

1950 · 1h 30m · Movie

In 1876 Colorado, the Tomahawk and Western Railroad is expanding through the Rockies but some stagecoach operators, fearing a loss of revenue, plan to sabotage the railroad.

6.1
30
A Knife for the Ladies

A Knife for the Ladies

1974 · 1h 26m · Movie

A private detective travels out west to investigate the murders of several prostitutes, facing off against the reluctance of the town's grizzled sheriff, and several suspicious characters, each with something to hide.

4.6
31
The Giant of Thunder Mountain

The Giant of Thunder Mountain

1990 · 1h 34m · Movie

A reclusive giant who lives on Thunder Mountain is falsely accused and pursued by people of a small western frontier town for kidnapping three children of the town.

5.9
32
Bonanza: The Return

Bonanza: The Return

1993 · 1h 33m · Movie

A man with a grudge against the late Little Joe seeks revenge on the Cartwrights and attempts to take over the Ponderosa.

5.7
33
Bonanza: Under Attack

Bonanza: Under Attack

1995 · 1h 29m · Movie

A reimagining of the next generation of Cartwrights, three cousins Benji, A.C., and Josh join together to fight off forces to save the Ponderosa. Under the guidance of old friend Bronc Evans, they learn the meaning of family.

5.8
34
Sacred Ground

Sacred Ground

1983 · 1h 40m · Movie

In 1861 Oregon, a mountain man and his Native American wife live in a cabin built on a Paiute burial site, leading to a violent dispute with the local tribe.

5.9