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[Jack Elam], a character actor and favorite Western villain who menaced good-guy cowboys with his crazy grin, menacing eyes and remorseless gunslinging in films such as "Rawhide" and "Wichita," has died. Elam worked as a Hollywood accountant in the 1940s and had bit parts, usuall...

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Published inDaily breeze (Torrance, Calif. : 1974)
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Torrance, Calif Los Angeles Newspaper Group 22.10.2003
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Elam, Jack
Hassan, Al
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Summary:[Jack Elam], a character actor and favorite Western villain who menaced good-guy cowboys with his crazy grin, menacing eyes and remorseless gunslinging in films such as "Rawhide" and "Wichita," has died. Elam worked as a Hollywood accountant in the 1940s and had bit parts, usually uncredited, in the films "Trailin' West" (1949), "Quicksand" (1950) and "One Way Street" (1950). Elam, born in Miami, Ariz., didn't always play the mean old hombre _ he also found himself cast as dirty old men and harmless drunks, sometimes with a humorous bent in comedies like "Support Your Local Sheriff" and "The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County."