• William Scott "Jack" Elam (November 13, 1920 – October 20, 2003) was an American film and television actor best known for his numerous roles as villains in Western films...
  • Jack Elam and Ben Cooper in Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971). ... Jack Elam, Dan Duryea, Chuck Roberson, and Henry Wills in Night Passage (1957).
  • Jack Elam was born in 1918 in Arizona. ... Guns fire, and Jack Elam bites the dust, a whole career encapsulated in one, unforgettable scene.
  • Known as the quintessential villainous character Jack Elam lived in Ashland from 1987 until his death in 2003 at the age of eighty-two.
  • Note: although many other sources give 1918 or 1916 as his year of birth. His Birth Certificate actually surfaced, indicating the 1920 date.
  • No matter how tenuous his link to Modesto, Jack Elam was first, and foremost, the perfect bad guy in many western films and television shows.
  • American actors Merlin Olsen (L) and Jack Elam pose together in a promotional portrait for the television series, 'Father Murphy,' 1981.