LOVED his comedic roles! However, I will always remember him as one of the villains that "Harmonica," played by a young Charles Bronson, gunned down in the opening scene of one of the greatest Westerns of all time, "Once Upon A Time In The West!" The film featured a stellar Cast. Along with Elam and Bronson, the actors included Henry Fonda, the stunningly beautiful Claudia Cardinale and Jason Robards! If you haven't seen it...DO! It's a MUST SEE Classic Western!! Trust me. You will watch it again and again. The opening scene is one absolutely incredible joyride. From humor (Thanks, Jack Elam!), to an eerie harmonica lead in the Soundtrack revealing the sudden appearance of Charles Bronson, to the inevitable shootout at the railroad station. It is about a 9-minute movie opening that will grab you from the start and not let you go until the mystery of Bronson's "Harmonica" character is revealed in the final climactic gunfight with badman Henry Fonda. The eerie harmonica-led musical Soundtrack will forever haunt you! Trust me!
Agreed! One of my all time favorites, I return to watch it a couple of times every year since it's release and it always feels like the first time even if I know it inside out. It is absolutely gorgeous, glorious, heartbreakingly beautiful film with a timeless story, characters, music etc. I know and love Jack Elam because of this.
My great-grandmother knew Jack Elam when he was a boy in her Sunday school at church. Seeing that Jack Elam was born in 1920, a rough guess would place that around 95 years ago if he was ten years of age at the time. My favorite scene of his acting career was in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a time in The West, where he doesn't say a word, but eventually traps a pesky housefly crawling on his face with a pistol's barrel against a bench. Sergio Leone was famous for his closeups of actor's faces, and Jack Elam's face alone was a sweaty and grimy masterpiece.
I adored Jack Elam. He was my favorite character actor. His comedic rolls were superb. Having had eye problems all my life, I really admired him for his career and never letting his eyes bother him. ❤️
I think that he wouldn't need the situation of his eye to have a successful career. He was a terrific actor, very intimidating in all his Villian roles.
I loved Jack Elam , but I always thought , can you imagine him going to his mom and telling her he wants to be an actor and her saying , " Jack , I love you , but that eye , I mean , you can see yourself walk into a room !" And then I felt bad when I found out she died when he was real young . R.I.P. " Swifty Morgan !"
I liked Jack Elam in every movie,or series he played in! And yes his cockeye really made him stand out. I liked when Jack Elam and James Garner movies support your local Sheriff and support your local Gunfighter. Jack Elam really did good and played his role well and now may his soul rest in peace he was among the best. He was the man Chuck Connor was the Shifty Morgan again I thank you Facts Vers 🤠
Jack Elam was freaky 24ct gold in the Twilight Zone episode "Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up"...and countless other shows and movies. His comedic performance in "Support Your Local Sheriff" is one of his best.
@@FactsVerse Too difficult to say really. Obviously, I didn't see everything he did in his amazing career, but he did make me laugh in "Cannonball Run". He was so versatile in his roles that trying to pick a favourite would be like a mother having to pick her favourite child. I'm a huge fan of James Garner as well, so I guess "Support Your Local Sheriff" would rate highly.
My beautiful sister was an "extra" in one of the great Jack Elam's later movies, Soggy Bottom U.S.A., and she said that Jack Elam was a very funny guy and a real gentleman. Thank you Sir, for serving and defending our country during WWll. Also thank you for playing in and starring in SO many great westerns through the years. As everyone knows, you were undoubtedly one of the greatest "character" actors in western-movie making history. R. I. P. JACK🐴 ELAM
His acting in the Cannonball movies and the Support your local movies were great! My favorites. I do remember his Bonanza and Gunsmoke appearances, but preferred the other movies with him.
@@FactsVerse too many to name but I loved him in Rio Lobo, The Man from Laramie & Support you Local Sheriff…just to name a few…I also loved his TV appearances👍🏽Great Actor!!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
The first time I noticed Elam was when I saw the movie "Creature from Black Lake" in the theater. I noticed him more in bit parts like in Twilight Zone but one of my favorite characters is in the movie "Night of the Grizzly". He was versatile and I still enjoy noticing him in films.
I grew up watching Jack Elam. As a matter of fact I happen to be watching an old Gunsmoke episode with Jack Elam riding alongside James Arness. My fondest memories of Jack Elam are when he co-starred with James Garner and Joan Hackett in Support Your Local Sheriff! However, Mr. Elam's talent has him in so many roles he can be seen almost daily and to say this role or that is short change his talents and career.
OMG Didn't realize the extent of Jack's career... Yeah, Remember that first picture of him shooting at the baby, but like his comedy better...Support Your Local Sheriff I still watch if it's on TV...one of my favorite actors..glad to hear he was a good guy too.
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Remember him well. He almost always played the baddy in films because of his looks. Saw him in one film where he was a good guy but people assumed he was bad , judging him by his looks
I met Jack Elam when I was a teen; he was staying in the same hotel as my family in Madrid. He was extremely gracious and friendly. Such a talented actor!
I love Jack Elam 🌟 I love everything that I've seen him in. Bonanza, the Rifleman, Gunsmoke. Movies: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, the Man from Laramie, the Support your Local Sheriff movies, to name a few. Jack was incredibly funny &was quite the villain. His face& talents were a masterpiece. Actors of his caliber made the movie industry continue to move forward with great expectations. Happy Heavenly Birthday to Mr. Jack Elam!!!🌟🎈🙏🍾😍🎈🎭
All the movies and TV shows I watched Jack Elam in. I chose because he was a part of that show and I knew it would be entertaining because of Jack Elam . Greatest movies Rawhide and Support Your Local Sheriff. Thanks Jack.
I was watching Once Upon a Time in the West only about a week ago. Elam is in the first several minutes of the movie before getting taken out by Charles Bronson. Before that he's sitting around having an amusing confrontation with a fly.
My great-grandmother knew Jack Elam when he was a boy in her Sunday school at church. Seeing that Jack Elam was born in 1920, a rough guess would place that around 95 years ago if he was ten years of age at the time. My favorite scene of his acting career was in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a time in The West, where he doesn't say a word, but eventually traps a pesky housefly crawling on his face with a pistol's barrel against a bench. Sergio Leone was famous for his closeups of actor's faces, and Jack Elam's face alone was a sweaty and grimy masterpiece.
You mean...AT LEAST 16 TIMES??!?😉 'Cause I am in the 20+ column!😃 I just can't get enough of it! I've been planning to acquire the Soundtrack for years... Gonna get it in another week when I receive my SS Retirement. I'm fixin' to search for it shortly.👍😎 🖖
Interesting upload!! I've seen him on Rawhide. I'd like to think that aside from his eye, it was his talent that made the star he was. He was awesome in Cannonball Run. Thank you ❣️😊
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I came looking to see some history about Jack Elam because I just read an old newspaper article from Miami, AZ, that stated that Deputy Sheriff Elam lost some of his fingers while in a shootout with a bank robber by the name of M. Estuerda. Deputy Elam was Jack's grandfather, so Jack's cowboy roots ran deep.
My favorite Jackie Lynn movie is Rio Lobo and his favorite my favorite quote of his glad I brought you along aren’t you with John Wayne and then he says glad you brought me along aren’t you with John Wayne and that was my favorite movie with him but I loved him and just about every movie with Avery and I loved him as a bad guy and loved him as a funny guy I just loved him as an all-around character actor and and I miss the old westerns and I wish they would bring more of them back
I remember him in High Noon. Gary Cooper let him out of jail after sleeping off a drunk. As he was walking out the door he asked gary if the Saloon had opened yet, Gary rebuked him and told him to get out of here.
I'm near sighted in one eye far sighted in the other they are independent of each other my right eye is normal my left eye is up in the corner until it's needed then my r eye goes to the corner and my l eye then goes to work I always liked Jack because his eye was like mine but for very different reasons I also liked Marty Feldman too cause his eyes weren't normal either I always wondered why Jack's eye didn't track rifgt now I know
I remember one movie he was in where he had something on his finger, he kept smelling it and tried to get everyone else to smell it too 🤣 and yes he was a good western actor for sure 👍👍
0:33 This poor guy, his childhood must have consisted of nothing but climbing big piles of dirt for no reason... Miami & Globe are shit towns with absolutely nothing in them except gas stations for the people luckily enough to just be passing through.
3:50 are dead babies known to be proficient dancers? If this is true why isn't s.i.d.s. funnier? "I'm not sure how to say this Mr. & Mr.s Brown, we found your baby throwing shapes and cutting a rug, at fiirst we thought it might be having a seizure until we witnessed the corpse doing the running man...we are so sorry for your loss... would you like a copy of its routine? "
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I think Jack did an episode of home improvement tool time
LOVED his comedic roles! However, I will always remember him as one of the villains that "Harmonica," played by a young Charles Bronson, gunned down in the opening scene of one of the greatest Westerns of all time, "Once Upon A Time In The West!" The film featured a stellar Cast. Along with Elam and Bronson, the actors included Henry Fonda, the stunningly beautiful Claudia Cardinale and Jason Robards! If you haven't seen it...DO! It's a MUST SEE Classic Western!! Trust me. You will watch it again and again. The opening scene is one absolutely incredible joyride. From humor (Thanks, Jack Elam!), to an eerie harmonica lead in the Soundtrack revealing the sudden appearance of Charles Bronson, to the inevitable shootout at the railroad station. It is about a 9-minute movie opening that will grab you from the start and not let you go until the mystery of Bronson's "Harmonica" character is revealed in the final climactic gunfight with badman Henry Fonda. The eerie harmonica-led musical Soundtrack will forever haunt you! Trust me!
Agreed! One of my all time favorites, I return to watch it a couple of times every year since it's release and it always feels like the first time even if I know it inside out. It is absolutely gorgeous, glorious, heartbreakingly beautiful film with a timeless story, characters, music etc. I know and love Jack Elam because of this.
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My great-grandmother knew Jack Elam when he was a boy in her Sunday school at church. Seeing that Jack Elam was born in 1920, a rough guess would place that around 95 years ago if he was ten years of age at the time.
My favorite scene of his acting career was in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a time in The West, where he doesn't say a word, but eventually traps a pesky housefly crawling on his face with a pistol's barrel against a bench. Sergio Leone was famous for his closeups of actor's faces, and Jack Elam's face alone was a sweaty and grimy masterpiece.
I adored Jack Elam. He was my favorite character actor. His comedic rolls were superb. Having had eye problems all my life, I really admired him for his career and never letting his eyes bother him. ❤️
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@@FactsVerse favorite film is " Support Your Local Sheriff "
I think that he wouldn't need the situation of his eye to have a successful career. He was a terrific actor, very intimidating in all his Villian roles.
Beautiful words, thank you for your message for Jack--we're moved. May he find peace 🙏
I especially loved " Swifty Morgan": in " Support Your Local Sheriff "
I loved Jack Elam , but I always thought , can you imagine him going to his mom and telling her he wants to be an actor and her saying , " Jack , I love you , but that eye , I mean , you can see yourself walk into a room !" And then I felt bad when I found out she died when he was real young . R.I.P. " Swifty Morgan !"
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Jack Elam, what a fantastic actor~!
He was a good man and actor I loved him godbless him
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@@FactsVerse.. Thank you. You have great day as well.
I liked Jack Elam in every movie,or series he played in! And yes his cockeye really made him stand out. I liked when Jack Elam and James Garner movies support your local Sheriff and support your local Gunfighter. Jack Elam really did good and played his role well and now may his soul rest in peace he was among the best. He was the man Chuck Connor was the Shifty Morgan again I thank you Facts Vers 🤠
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I enjoyed that movie too 😌👌💯
Jack Elam was freaky 24ct gold in the Twilight Zone episode "Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up"...and countless other shows and movies. His comedic performance in "Support Your Local Sheriff" is one of his best.
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That was my favorite Twilight Zone episode 😁👌💯
Jack Elam was always one of my favourite actors. I was pleasantly surprised with his transition, and natural ability, to comedy.
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@@FactsVerse Too difficult to say really. Obviously, I didn't see everything he did in his amazing career, but he did make me laugh in "Cannonball Run". He was so versatile in his roles that trying to pick a favourite would be like a mother having to pick her favourite child. I'm a huge fan of James Garner as well, so I guess "Support Your Local Sheriff" would rate highly.
Loved his scene in the opening part of "Once Upon a Time in The West" waiting for the train to arrive at the station. Purely classic Jack Elan!!
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I loved this man.
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The Short scene on the movie with Henry Fonda was great when he was blowing the fly away but was good in every role he did thanks FV
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Who could forget Jack Elam 🤠 in so many CLASSIC westerns. HAPPY BIRTHDAY🎂🎈 MR. ELAM.🕯️🕊️ 🎉🌹Ride'em high above 🏇🐎 🇺🇸
My beautiful sister was
an "extra" in one of the
great Jack Elam's later
movies, Soggy Bottom
U.S.A., and she said that Jack Elam was a very funny guy and a real gentleman.
Thank you Sir, for serving and defending our country during WWll.
Also thank you for playing in and starring in SO many great westerns through the years.
As everyone knows, you were undoubtedly
one of the greatest "character" actors in
western-movie making
history.
R. I. P.
JACK🐴 ELAM
His acting in the Cannonball movies and the Support your local movies were great! My favorites. I do remember his Bonanza and Gunsmoke appearances, but preferred the other movies with him.
Ok, so he is the drug addicted butt Dr? I wasn't sure other then the eye haha
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I knew who he was & I loved him in every role!👍🏽RIP Jack Elam🙏🏾
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@@FactsVerse too many to name but I loved him in Rio Lobo, The Man from Laramie & Support you Local Sheriff…just to name a few…I also loved his TV appearances👍🏽Great Actor!!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
The first time I noticed Elam was when I saw the movie "Creature from Black Lake" in the theater. I noticed him more in bit parts like in Twilight Zone but one of my favorite characters is in the movie "Night of the Grizzly". He was versatile and I still enjoy noticing him in films.
Remembered him in so many westerns from late 50's through mostly the 60's. Grew to love seeing him as a great character actor..R.I.P. Jack..
I grew up watching Jack Elam. As a matter of fact I happen to be watching an old Gunsmoke episode with Jack Elam riding alongside James Arness. My fondest memories of Jack Elam are when he co-starred with James Garner and Joan Hackett in Support Your Local Sheriff! However, Mr. Elam's talent has him in so many roles he can be seen almost daily and to say this role or that is short change his talents and career.
OMG Didn't realize the extent of Jack's career...
Yeah, Remember that first picture of him shooting at the baby, but like his comedy better...Support Your Local Sheriff I still watch if it's on TV...one of my favorite actors..glad to hear he was a good guy too.
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@@FactsVerse oh, many, have you done Walter Matthau yet? He had a great career and loved his picture A New Leaf with Elaine May
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I remember him when my daddy watched old westerns! He played good roles! His disability did not stop him! Happy heavenly birthday, RIP!😊😅🎉😂❤
I think this comment will go into the "abyss", but I'll still say I loved this guy!!
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Remember him well. He almost always played the baddy in films because of his looks. Saw him in one film where he was a good guy but people assumed he was bad , judging him by his looks
Elam was classic. Made for Westerns.
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@Facts Verse many. Love those on character actors and those that didnt have top billing. But always worked .
I met Jack Elam when I was a teen; he was staying in the same hotel as my family in Madrid. He was extremely gracious and friendly. Such a talented actor!
I love Jack Elam 🌟 I love everything that I've seen him in. Bonanza, the Rifleman, Gunsmoke. Movies: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, the Man from Laramie, the Support your Local Sheriff movies, to name a few. Jack was incredibly funny &was quite the villain. His face& talents were a masterpiece. Actors of his caliber made the movie industry continue to move forward with great expectations. Happy Heavenly Birthday to Mr. Jack Elam!!!🌟🎈🙏🍾😍🎈🎭
All the movies and TV shows I watched Jack Elam in. I chose because he was a part of that show and I knew it would be entertaining because of Jack Elam . Greatest movies Rawhide and Support Your Local Sheriff. Thanks Jack.
We're moved. Beautiful words, thank you for your message for Jack. Be safe and have a great weekend ❤
LOVED JACK! Favorite role: Ace Williams, Never A Dull Moment, absolutely hysterical movie!
I didn't remember him but I've seen him everywhere.
What a great character actor he was. I loved the guy.
He is one of my favorite actors.
I was watching Once Upon a Time in the West only about a week ago. Elam is in the first several minutes of the movie before getting taken out by Charles Bronson. Before that he's sitting around having an amusing confrontation with a fly.
loved his roles he plaid. Good man.
Us too but in your opinion, what is his finest role?
My great-grandmother knew Jack Elam when he was a boy in her Sunday school at church. Seeing that Jack Elam was born in 1920, a rough guess would place that around 95 years ago if he was ten years of age at the time.
My favorite scene of his acting career was in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a time in The West, where he doesn't say a word, but eventually traps a pesky housefly crawling on his face with a pistol's barrel against a bench. Sergio Leone was famous for his closeups of actor's faces, and Jack Elam's face alone was a sweaty and grimy masterpiece.
Cannon Ball run 😂😂😂😂😂👍
Jack Elam was a brilliant actor, I ? enjoyed his movies!!!!!
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@@FactsVerse I don't have a favorite role, he was so good in all of them. And very versatile, comedy, westerns, drama. He was that good!
Legends that watched the video 16 times
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You mean...AT LEAST 16 TIMES??!?😉 'Cause I am in the 20+ column!😃 I just can't get enough of it! I've been planning to acquire the Soundtrack for years... Gonna get it in another week when I receive my SS Retirement. I'm fixin' to search for it shortly.👍😎 🖖
This was my father 's favourite western!
Character actors are underrated they make the movies interesting and jack Elam was the very best of them all
Happy heavenly Birthday. One of my favorite actors good talent 😌🎂🎁🎈🎉🎊👌💯
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Yes loved him great looking character!
Night of the Grizzly
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Interesting upload!! I've seen him on Rawhide. I'd like to think that aside from his eye, it was his talent that made the star he was. He was awesome in Cannonball Run. Thank you ❣️😊
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@@FactsVerse , all of them!!! Watch it whenever I can. 😀
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I loved Jack Elam I thought he was so funny in the night of the grizzly and others.❤
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Yes he was one of the greatest
He was so good in The Dakotas. He was J. D. Smith. Even though it wasn’t a comedy he brought a wry outlook to the show.
Remember....Elam spelled backwards is....
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Elam was really good as Lonnie Anderson's Father on 'Evening Shade.'
Love his movies
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Rio Lobo
I came looking to see some history about Jack Elam because I just read an old newspaper article from Miami, AZ, that stated that Deputy Sheriff Elam lost some of his fingers while in a shootout with a bank robber by the name of M. Estuerda. Deputy Elam was Jack's grandfather, so Jack's cowboy roots ran deep.
My favorite Jackie Lynn movie is Rio Lobo and his favorite my favorite quote of his glad I brought you along aren’t you with John Wayne and then he says glad you brought me along aren’t you with John Wayne and that was my favorite movie with him but I loved him and just about every movie with Avery and I loved him as a bad guy and loved him as a funny guy I just loved him as an all-around character actor and and I miss the old westerns and I wish they would bring more of them back
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That 1,000 pound sister has the same crazy eye …. don’t know her name but I remember that eye
He also was on the Cheyenne Show starring Clint Walker known as the other “Clint”. It might have been on of his earliest appearances.
My favorite role of his was the night watchman in Once apon a Texas train
He look like the man on Little House.
I remember him in High Noon. Gary Cooper let him out of jail after sleeping off a drunk. As he was walking out the door he asked gary if the Saloon had opened yet, Gary rebuked him and told him to get out of here.
I didn’t know the man from the Rockford finals was in Western’s?
Westerns, plural, no apostrophe
I remember him!
I'm near sighted in one eye far sighted in the other they are independent of each other my right eye is normal my left eye is up in the corner until it's needed then my r eye goes to the corner and my l eye then goes to work I always liked Jack because his eye was like mine but for very different reasons I also liked Marty Feldman too cause his eyes weren't normal either I always wondered why Jack's eye didn't track rifgt now I know
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No it would make my vision bad because both eyes would together
Great Actor
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Is this the Butt Dr. from Cannonball Run?
I like him
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I remember one movie he was in where he had something on his finger, he kept smelling it and tried to get everyone else to smell it too 🤣 and yes he was a good western actor for sure 👍👍
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0:33 This poor guy, his childhood must have consisted of nothing but climbing big piles of dirt for no reason... Miami & Globe are shit towns with absolutely nothing in them except gas stations for the people luckily enough to just be passing through.
I liked him in The Sacketts. Not a big role but larger than life as a pissed off brother...
Great actor!
Dig them eyeball ms
That’s the guy that played in Cannon Ball Run as the Dr of proctologist.
Once Upon a Time in The West
One of our favorites too, you've got fine taste! Made us miss Jack more 😥
The Dakotas. He was J.D. Smith
Suffered a permanent injury at a BOY SCOUT MEETING.
The Cannonball Run
3:50 are dead babies known to be proficient dancers? If this is true why isn't s.i.d.s. funnier? "I'm not sure how to say this Mr. & Mr.s Brown, we found your baby throwing shapes and cutting a rug, at fiirst we thought it might be having a seizure until we witnessed the corpse doing the running man...we are so sorry for your loss... would you like a copy of its routine? "
He tried to hide it with glancing angles and cut aways.
How many remembers The TV Western The Dakotas
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