Biography
The actor's trademark cockeye was the result of a childhood fight in Phoenix after a fellow Boy Scout stabbed him in the left eye with a pencil during a scrape at a troop meeting. After working as a theater manager, hotel manager and bookkeeper and accountant for film producers including Samuel Goldwyn, Elam was given his first acting job by producer George Templeton and made his debut in "Wild Weed" (1949). He helped raise financing for the …
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Career Milestones
| Worked as manager of Hollywood Boulevard Theatre and a Bel Air hotel | ||
1936 | Became an accountant for Standard Oil; worked as accountant, controller, bookkeeper and independent auditor | |
1947 | Worked as bookkeeper for Samuel Goldwyn and controller for "Hopalong Cassidy" films (date approximate) | |
1949 | Film acting debut in "Wild Weed" | |
1963 | TV series debut, "The Dakotas" | |
1969 | TV movie debut, "The Over-the-Hill-Gang" | |
1973 | Cast in the feature "Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid" | |
1977 | Featured in the television mini-series "How The West Was Won" | |
1979 | Potrayed the character Big Mack in "The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again" | |
1980 | Cast in the comedy feature "The Cannon Ball Run" | |
1986 | Co-starred in the comedy series "Easy Street" | |
1993 | Had a memorable part in the television western "Bonanza" | |