# Jack Elam filmography

This is the filmography of American actor Jack Elam (November 13, 1920 – October 20, 2003), including his film and television appearances, between 1949 and 1995.

## Selected filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1947 | Mystery Range | Burvel Lambert | |
| 1949 | She Shoulda Said No! | Henchman Raymond | also known as Wild Weed and The Devil's Weed |
| 1950 | The Sundowners | Earl Boyce | |
| 1950 | Key to the City | Councilman | Uncredited |
| 1950 | Quicksand | Bar patron | With Mickey Rooney and Peter Lorre Uncredited |
| 1950 | One Way Street | Arnie | Uncredited |
| 1950 | A Ticket to Tomahawk | Fargo | Uncredited |
| 1950 | Love That Brute | Henchman No 2 in Cigar Store | Uncredited |
| 1950 | High Lonesome | Smiling Man | |
| 1950 | American Guerrilla in the Philippines | The Speaker | |
| 1950 | The Texan Meets Calamity Jane | Henchman | Uncredited |
| 1951 | Bird of Paradise | The Trader | |
| 1951 | Rawhide | Tevis | |
| 1951 | The Bushwackers | Cree | also known as The Rebel |
| 1952 | Finders Keepers | Eddie | |
| 1952 | The Battle at Apache Pass | Mescal Jack | |
| 1952 | Rancho Notorious | Mort Geary | With Tyrone Power |
| 1952 | High Noon | Drunken Charlie in jail | Uncredited |
| 1952 | Montana Territory | Gimp | |
| 1952 | Lure of the Wilderness | Dave Longden | |
| 1952 | My Man and I | Celestino Garcia | |
| 1952 | The Ring | Harry Jackson | |
| 1952 | Kansas City Confidential | Pete Harris aka Johnson | With Neville Brand, and Lee Van Cleef |
| 1953 | Count the Hours | Max Verne | also known as Every Minute Counts |
| 1953 | Ride Vaquero! | Barton | |
| 1953 | Gun Belt | Rusty Kolloway | |
| 1953 | The Moonlighter | Slim | |
| 1953 | Appointment in Honduras | Castro | With Glenn Ford |
| 1954 | Jubilee Trail | Whitey | |
| 1954 | Ride Clear of Diablo | Tim Lowerie | |
| 1954 | Princess of the Nile | Basra | |
| 1954 | The Far Country | Frank Newberry | With Jimmy Stewart |
| 1954 | Cattle Queen of Montana | Yost | |
| 1954 | Vera Cruz | Tex | |
| 1955 | Tarzan's Hidden Jungle | Burger | |
| 1955 | The Man From Laramie | Chris Boldt, the town liar | With Jimmy Stewart |
| 1955 | Man Without a Star | Knife Murderer | With Kirk Douglas Uncredited |
| 1955 | Kiss Me Deadly | Charlie Max | |
| 1955 | Moonfleet | Damen | |
| 1955 | Wichita | Al Mann | With Joel McCrea |
| 1955 | Artists and Models | Ivan | With Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, and Eva Gabor |
| 1955 | Kismet | Hassan-Ben | |
| 1956 | Jubal | McCoy, Bar 8 Rider | |
| 1956 | Pardners | Pete | With Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis |
| 1956 | Thunder Over Arizona | Deputy Slats Callahan | |
| 1957 | Dragoon Wells Massacre | Tioga | |
| 1957 | Lure of the Swamp | Henry Bliss | |
| 1957 | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | Tom McLowery | With Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster |
| 1957 | Night Passage | Shotgun | With Jimmy Stewart |
| 1957 | Baby Face Nelson | Fatso Negel | |
| 1958 | The Gun Runners | Arnold | |
| 1959 | Edge of Eternity | Bill Ward, miner at the Grand Canyon | |
| 1959 | The Girl in Lovers Lane | Jesse | |
| 1961 | The Last Sunset | Ed Hobbs | With Kirk Douglas, & Rock Hudson |
| 1961 | The Comancheros | Horseface (Comanchero) | With John Wayne |
| 1961 | A Pocketful of Miracles | Cheesecake | With Glenn Ford |
| 1963 | 4 for Texas | Dobie | With Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg, Charles Bronson, and Mike Mazurki |
| 1966 | The Rare Breed | Simons | With Jimmy Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Ben Johnson |
| 1966 | The Night of the Grizzly | Hank | |
| 1967 | The Way West | Preacher Weatherby | With Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, and Richard Widmark, and Harry Carey, Jr. |
| 1967 | The Last Challenge | Ernest Scarnes | With Glenn Ford, & Angie Dickinson |
| 1968 | Firecreek | Norman | With Jimmy Stewart, and Henry Fonda |
| 1968 | Never a Dull Moment | Ace Williams | With Dick Van Dyke & Edward G. Robinson |
| 1968 | Sartana Does Not Forgive | Slim Kovacs | |
| 1968 | Once Upon a Time in the West | Snaky, member of Frank's gang | With Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, & Claudia Cardinale |
| 1969 | Support Your Local Sheriff! | Deputy Jake | With James Garner, Walter Brennan, Bruce Dern, Harry Morgan, and Gene Evans |
| 1969 | The Over-the-Hill Gang | Sheriff Clyde Barnes | With Walter Brennan, Andy Devine, Chill Wills |
| 1970 | Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County | Kittrick | |
| 1970 | Dirty Dingus Magee | John Wesley Hardin | With George Kennedy |
| 1970 | The Wild Country | Thompson | |
| 1970 | Rio Lobo | Philips, a rancher | With John Wayne |
| 1971 | Support Your Local Gunfighter | Jake | With James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Dub Taylor, Harry Morgan, and Chuck Connors |
| 1971 | The Last Rebel | Matt | |
| 1971 | Hannie Caulder | Frank Clemens | With Robert Culp, Strother Martin, and Ernest Borgnine |
| 1973 | The Red Pony | Granddad | With Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson |
| 1973 | Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid | Alamosa Bill | With Kris Kristofferson, James Coburn. Richard Jaeckel |
| 1974 | Knife for the Ladies | Jarrod (Sheriff) | |
| 1976 | Creature from Black Lake | Joe Canton | |
| 1976 | Hawmps! | Bad Jack Cutter | |
| 1976 | The Winds of Autumn | J. Pete Hankins | |
| 1976 | Pony Express Rider | Crazy Charlie | |
| 1977 | Grayeagle | Trapper Willis | With Alex Cord, Ben Johnson, and Iron Eyes Cody |
| 1978 | Hot Lead and Cold Feet | Rattlesnake | With Don Knotts, and Darren McGavin |
| 1978 | The Norseman | Death Dreamer | |
| 1979 | Louis L'Amour's The Sacketts | Ira Bigelow | Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, Ben Johnson, Glenn Ford, John Vernon, Slim Pickens, James Gammon, and Gene Evans TV Mini-Series |
| 1979 | The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again | Big Mack | With Don Knotts, Tim Conway, and Harry Morgan |
| 1979 | The Villain | Avery Simpson | With Kirk Douglas, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ann-Margret, Paul Lynde, Foster Brooks, Strother Martin, and Ruth Buzzi |
| 1981 | The Cannonball Run | Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing | With Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Dom DeLuise, Farrah Fawcett, John Fiedler, Adrienne Barbeau, Sammy Davis, Jr., & Dean Martin |
| 1981 | Soggy Bottom, U.S.A. | Troscliar Boudreaux | |
| 1982 | Jinxed! | Otto | |
| 1983 | Sacred Ground | Lum Witcher | With L.Q. Jones |
| 1983 | Lost | Mr. Newsome | |
| 1984 | Cannonball Run II | Doctor Nikolas Vans Helsing | With Burt Reynolds, Dean Martin, Telly Savalas, Jackie Chan, Ricardo Montalbán, Dom DeLuise, Abe Vigoda, Jim Nabors, Tim Conway, Dub Taylor, Fred Dryer, Sammy Davis, Jr, & Shirley MacLaine |
| 1985 | The Aurora Encounter | Charlie | |
| 1987 | Hawken's Breed | Tackett | |
| 1988 | Once Upon a Texas Train | Jason Fitch | With Willie Nelson, Richard Widmark, Chuck Connors, Gene Evans, Dub Taylor, Harry Carey, Jr., Hank Worden, Stuart Whitman, Angie Dickinson, & Royal Dano TV Movie |
| 1988 | Where The Hell's That Gold? | Boone | With Willie Nelson, Delta Burke, and Gerald McRaney TV Movie |
| 1990 | Big Bad John | Jake Calhoun | With Ned Beatty, Bo Hopkins, Buck Taylor, Jeff Osterhage, & Anne Lockhart |
| 1991 | The Giant of Thunder Mountain | Hezekiah Crow | |
| 1991 | Suburban Commando | Col. Dustin "Dusty" McHowell | With Hulk Hogan, & Christopher Lloyd, & Shelley Duvall |
| 1993 | Shadow Force | Tommy | With Dirk Benedict, Lance LeGault, & Bob Hastings |
| 1993 | Bonanza: The Return | Buckshot | TV movie |
| 1993 | Uninvited | Grady | |
| 1995 | Bonanza: Under Attack | Buckshot | TV movie, (final film role) |

## Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1954 | Mr and Mrs North | Matt Weber | Episode: "Loon Lake" |
| 1954 | Four Star Playhouse | Vic | Episode: "The Hard Way" |
| 1954 | Stories of the Century | Black Jack Ketchum | |
| 1954-55 | The Lone Ranger | (a) Reno Lawrence (b) Jack Miles | Episodes (a) "Outlaw's Trail" and (b) "The Sheriff's Wife" |
| 1955 | Frontier | (a) Father Matias (b) Ness Fowler | Episodes (a) "Ferdinand Meyer's Army" and (b) "Cattle Drive to Casper" |
| 1955 | The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin | Shields | Episode: "Bounty Hunters" |
| 1957 | Wagon Train | Charlie Otis | episode "The John Cameron Story" |
| 1957–58 | The Restless Gun | | 2 episodes |
| 1958 | Zorro | Gomez the coachman | episodes "Shadow of Doubt"/"Garcia Stands Accused"/"Slaves of the Eagle" |
| 1958–63 | The Rifleman | Various | Appearances in 5 episodes: "Duel of Honor" as Sim Groder; "Tension" as Gavin Martin; "Knight Errant" as Gates; "Shotgun Man" as Gus Smith; and "Shattered Idol" as Russell the pool shark. |
| 1958-59 | Richard Diamond, Private Detective | (a) Danny; (b) Perk Butler | Episodes: (a) "The Dark Horse" (1958); (b) "One Dead Cat" (1959) |
| 1959 | Tombstone Territory | Wally Jobe | Episode "Day of the Amnesty" |
| 1959 | The Texan | Luke Watson | Episode "South of the Border" |
| 1959-1962 | Have Gun Will Travel | Joe Gage, Shaffner | Episode: "The Man Who Lost"; Episode:(2/171962) "one, two, three" |
| 1959 | Mackenzie's Raiders | Trooper Colin Grimes | Episode "Desertion" |
| 1960 | Zane Gray Theater | Jimmy | Episode "Miss Jenny" |
| 1959–72 | Gunsmoke | Various characters | 15 episodes |
| 1959–1961 | Sugarfoot | Toothy Thompson | 2 episodes |
| 1959–1961 | The Twilight Zone | Avery | Episode "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" |
| 1959–1961 | The Rebel | Lawyer | Episode S01/Ep14 "Angry Town" (1/10/1960) |
| 1959–1961 | The Rebel | Uncle Luce | Episode S02/Ep33 "Helping Hand" |
| 1959–1961 | The Untouchables | Nick Bravo | Episode: (1/07/1960) S01/Ep13 "Syndicate Sanctuary" |
| 1959–1961 | National Velvet | Black Barr | Episode "The Desperado" |
| 1959–1961 | The Americans | Loper Johnson | Episode "The Gun" |
| 1959–1961 | Lawman | Herm Forrest | Episode "The Four" |
| 1961–62 | Cheyenne | Count Nicholas Potosi/Deputy J.D. Smith/Calhoun Durango | Episodes "Massacre at Gunsight Pass"/"A Man Called Ragan" (The Dakotas pilot) /"The Durango Brothers" |
| 1961 | Laramie | Charlie | Episode "The Tumbleweed Wagon" |
| 1962 | Target: The Corruptors | Stickface | Episode "A Man's Castle" |
| 1962 | Ben Casey | Felix Gault | Episode "The Night That Nothing Happened" |
| 1963 | The Dakotas | Deputy J.D. Smith | series regular |
| 1963–64 | Temple Houston | | |
| 1965 | Daniel Boone | Petch | Episode 18 "The Sound of Fear" |
| 1965 | F Troop | Sam Urp | Episode "Dirge for the Scourge" |
| 1965–66 | The Legend of Jesse James | Deacon Smith | Guest star |
| 1966 | Gunsmoke | Jim Barrett | Guest star |
| 1967 | Hondo | Diablo | Episode "Hondo and the Rebel Hat" |
| 1967 | Tarzan | Beliak | Episode "Circus" |
| 1967 | The Guns of Will Sonnett | Sheriff Sam | Episode "A Son for a Son" |
| 1968 | The High Chaparral | Mackdin (comanchero) | Episode "North to Tucson" |
| 1969 | Ride a Northbound Horse | | Part of Disney's Wonderful World series |
| 1961-70 | Bonanza | Dodie Hoad/Buford Buckalaw/Honest John | Episodes "The Spitfire"/"A Bride for Buford"/"Honest John" |
| 1970 | The Virginian | Harve Yost | Episode "Rich Man, Poor Man" |
| 1971 | Gunsmoke | U.S. Marshal Lucas Murdoch | |
| 1972 | Gunsmoke | Pierre | Episodes S18/Ep01-Ep02 "The River" |
| 1972 | Alias Smith and Jones | Boot Coby | Episode "Bad Night in Big Butte" |
| 1972 | Nichols | Marcus A.F. Baxter | Episode "About Jesse James" |
| 1973 | Kung Fu | Marcus Taylor | Episode "The Squawman" |
| 1974 | The Brian Keith Show | | Guest star |
| 1975 | Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | Thompson | Episode "Wild Country: Part 2" |
| 1974–75 | The Texas Wheelers | | Situation comedy with co-star Gary Busey |
| 1977-78 | How the West Was Won | Cully Madigan | Episodes "#1.2-#1.4" |
| 1979 | Struck by Lightning | Frankenstein's monster | In an interview, in variety, Elam recalled that when he was approached to take the part, he was told he would not need makeup; his appearance was already perfect for the part. This statement convinced him to accept the role. The program only lasted about three weeks before it was canceled, either due to low ratings or because its use of dark humor made it inappropriate for American audiences at the time. |
| 1985 | Detective in the House | Nick Turner | series regular |
| 1986 | Easy Street | Uncle Alvin "Bully" Stevenson | series regular |
| 1986 | Simon and Simon | Bud Krelman | Episode "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" |
| 1986 | Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills | Squires | TV movie |
| 1992 | Lucky Luke | Axel Ericson | Episode "Ghost Train" |
| 1992 | Home Improvement | Hick Peterson | Episode "Birds of a Feather Flock to Taylor" |
| 1994-95 | Lonesome Dove: The Series | Curtis | Episodes "High Lonesome"/"The List" |