Jack Elam
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William Scott "Jack" Elam was an American film and television actor best known for his numerous roles as villains in Western films, and later in his career, comedies. His most distinguishing physical
Elam in 1950s
Elam in Kansas City Confidential (1952)
Once Upon a Time in the West
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Once Upon a Time in the West is a 1968 epic spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone from a screenplay he co-wrote with Sergio Donati. It stars Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Ch
Jack Elam
…about a wagon train traveling the Oregon Trail. Then in 1968, Elam performed in the opening scenes of Sergio Leone's celebrated "spaghetti Western" Once Upon a Time in the West. In that film, he portrays one of a trio of gunslingers sent to a train station to kill Charles Bronson's character. Elam, in one sequence, spends a…
Theatrical release poster by Frank McCarthy
Monument Valley, Utah
Director Sergio Leone (right) and Enzo Santaniello on the set of the film
Jason Robards, one of the principal actors in the film.