Jack Elam Movies

Want to know the best Jack Elam movies?  How about the worst Jack Elam movies?  Curious about Jack Elam box office grosses or which Jack Elam movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Jack Elam movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well, you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Jack Elam (1920-2003) was an American actor. Elam was a “go to character actor” for five different decades.  His most distinguishing physical quality was his misaligned eye. Before his career in acting, he took several jobs in finance and served two years in the U.S. Navy during World War II.  His IMDb page shows 207 acting credits from 1944 to 1995. This page will rank Jack Elam movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. To do well in the rankings, a movie needed to do well at the box office, be liked by both critics and audiences and earn some award recognition.  We listed 80 movies in our rankings, but there are some of his movies that were not included.  This was due to lack of box office information.

Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)

Jack Elam Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

Jack Elam Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Jack Elam movies by co-stars of his movies.
  • Sort Jack Elam movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Jack Elam movies by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort Jack Elam movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Jack Elam movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Jack Elam movie won.
  • Sort Jack Elam movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews, and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Jack Elam – “I enjoy the comic roles and the old-man roles very much, but I like to stock in one of my old-time heavies every once in a while just to sustain the image that got me where I am today…..wherever that is.” – from the book Character People: The Stalwarts of the Cinema (1976)
1952’s High Noon

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