411 on jack elam???

[Peyton Manning]

I like old movies and jack elam was a great character actor

anyone know much about him?

 

[digging440yrs]

Wife says I don't know jack #### all the time

 

[SD51]

Remember him in movies with James Garner. Looked up his list of movies, don't see how he ever had a single minute to take a vacation. Classic western movies...

 

[BigWaveDave]

 

[Peyton Manning]

I couldn't get a pic to post

 

[smokeythecat]

The picture says it all.

 

[against the wind]

Didn't know he had a part in Alfred Hitchkock's
"The Birds"

 

[smokeythecat]

Jack was born November 13, 1920 and he died October 20, 2003 at age 82. He was in his first film, a short in 1944 and his last part was in "Lonesome Dove" the series in 1995. He was married twice and has 3 children. During the 1950's through 1980's he was always working on one film project or another.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Great thread!

 

[GB1]

one of my favorite movies he played in was that John Wayne Movie. Rio Lobo