Jack Elam passed away

Stz ll · 10-22-2003, 12:32 PM

Don't forget Support Your Local Sheriff, and Support Your Local Gunfighter.

He was hillarious in both of those movies.

I will miss him.

AllThumz · 10-22-2003, 01:26 PM

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Don't forget Support Your Local Sheriff, and Support Your Local Gunfighter

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">I was thinking the same thing. Those 2 movies are among my favorites.

John

Day Late · 10-22-2003, 01:34 PM

Enjoyed him in his various roles. Always found myself following the wandering eye! Another good guy gone-do I feel old or what!! :depressed:

Day Late

Kruechief · 10-22-2003, 05:06 PM

I loved the way he would give people the goofy eye.

Krue

BuKuBass · 10-22-2003, 05:58 PM

As I recall he was an accounant before becoming an actor. With that eye he could probably read two ledgers at once.
He was in a Disney movie called "Hawmps" and in one scene he's sillouted against the skyline, festooned with an amazing collection of armaments, looking like a porcupine on a bad hair day. I can't remember the entire line but it did include the phrase, "I'm walking death!". One of the funniest scenes ever filmed.

Wood N' Fish · 10-22-2003, 07:41 PM

What a memorble character! I can remember him in everything, from Saturday's at the Hood Theater, to Hoss The Trail Boss! Alway's figured, Jack & the Duke were brothers. IMHO

letsfish · 10-22-2003, 07:45 PM

Was just talking about him with a friend a couple of weeks ago- he was one of the greats!
Gunsmoke really cast him well, albeit, perhaps without regard to previous roles-I think he was one of Festus's cousins, and multiple times a "dirty, low down,onry, flea bitten. poor excuse for a cowboy"(aka a dirty, lieing thief).

pdxkevin · 10-22-2003, 11:10 PM

Many don't recongnize him by name but they do when they see his photo.

Jack Elam is seen in this July 1979 publicity file photo for a CBS television show, 'Struck By Lightning', died Monday Oct. 20, 2003 at his home in Ashland, OR. of an unspecified illness, according to longtime friend Al Hassan. A family friend announced Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2003 that 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.

Here is a list of his films.

He will be missed.

Fishfeet · 10-22-2003, 11:35 PM

Man what a bummer! Another great actor gone.

Seems like they have been dropping like flies the last two years. Didn`t know he lived in Ashland. Fishft.

fishingchef · 10-24-2003, 12:31 AM

He was great actor.
Sad to see him go.
Man they are dropping like flies this year

Stratocaster · 10-24-2003, 12:36 AM

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Man they are dropping like flies this year

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">Yes they are. Is Harrison Ford next?

Well with that young hottie, you know?

pdxkevin · 10-24-2003, 06:12 AM

If there was ever a couple of men I would like to hang around the campfire with it would have been these two...

letsfish · 10-24-2003, 07:38 AM

pdxk-Wouldn't that have been a hoot! Man, they could tell some stories! I could see old Jack telling one and you're looking intently at him and then he stares right at you with that eye! It would be too much fun.

fishbane · 10-24-2003, 08:28 AM

As A huge movie fan this is a sad thing.
But not as sad as the fact that yesterday kgw.com didn't even list the fact Jack as an Oregonian had died at all, but that the guy ( Fred Barry) who played rerun on a tv show for 2 years topped their site and nothing said of a fellow Oregonian who was a great character actor died.
Oh but they had no problem mentioning you better watch out for your black cat that maybe abducted for a satanic ritual.

But thats how our media is these days.

I met him once playing cards in a casino here in Oregon. He was so cool.