Credits include: What Women Want, Sordid Lives, Hansel & Gretel, Designing Women and A Bunny's Tale

Credits include: The Dukes of Hazzard, Thief, The Big Bounce, Gone Fishin' and The Electric Horseman

Colorful American character actor equally adept at vicious killers or grizzled sidekicks. As a child he worked in the cotton fields. He attended Santa Monica Junior College in California and subsequently became an accountant and, at one time, manager of the Bel Air Hotel. Elam got his first movie job by trading his accounting services for a role. In short time he became one of the most memorable supporting players in Hollywood, thanks not only to his near-demented screen persona but also to an o