Known for:	Once Upon a Time in the West, The Cannonball Run, Support Your Local Sheriff!
Birth name:	William Scott Elam
Birthday:	13 November 1918, Miami, Arizona, USA
Height:	6' 2" (1.88 m)

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Free Image Hosting - Upload your favorite celebrity pictures. Daughters: Jeri Elam and Jacqueline Elam. Made an infamous career with his eerie, immobile eye, which was caused by a fight with another kid at the age of 12. It happened during a Boy Scout meeting when another boy took a pencil, threw it, and it jabbed his eyeball. After WWII, Elam worked as a bookkeeper for Samuel Goldwyn Studios and then as controller for William Boyd's Hopalong Cassidy production company. Staring at small figures on ledger sheets for hours on end strained his good eye and doctors told him he risked losing his sight if he continued his lucrative accounting business. When a movie director friend was having trouble getting financing for three western scripts, Elam told him he would arrange the financing in exchange for roles as a "heavy" in all three pictures. The first was The Sundowners (1950), starring Robert Preston, which helped launch his long career. Was known to be great at all forms of gambling. Also great at winning games played with people on sets. Interviewed in "Bad at the Bijou" by William R. Horner (McFarland, 1982).

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