Jack Elam, a character actor and favorite Western villain who menaced good-guy cowboys with his crazy grin, wild eyes and remorseless gunslinging in films such as "Rawhide" and "Wichita," has died, a ...

Jack Elam, longtime Western actor, died Tuesday Oct. 21 in Ashland, Ore., of emphysema. According to his agent Morgan Paul, he was 87, although some accounts say he was 84 and reportedly lied about ...

GREENSBORO — A little more than a week after Jack Elam became Greensboro’s mayor, the trouble started. A group of students at N.C. A&T, sympathetic and angry over student grievances at predominantly ...

Some of us remember when Patsy Clark’s was still a restaurant. I certainly do, since it was where Mary Pat Treuthart and I held our wedding dinner in 1995. A few years before that, though, was when I ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Jack Elam, a character actor and favorite Western villain who menaced good-guy cowboys with his crazy grin, wild eyes and remorseless gunslinging in films such as "Rawhide" and ...

Character actor Jack Elam, a favorite Western villain who menaced the good guys with his crazy grin, menacing eyes and remorseless gunslinging, has died. A family friend says Elam died Monday ...