• "She Shoulda Said 'No'!", also known as Wild Weed and The Devil's Weed (1949)
• A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950)
• American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950)
• High Lonesome (1950)
• Bird of Paradise (1951)
• Rawhide (1951)
• High Noon with Gary Cooper, as drunken Charlie in jail (uncredited) (1952)
• Kansas City Confidential (1952)
• Rancho Notorious (1952)
• Ride Vaquero! with Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner and Howard Keel (1953)
• The Far Country with James Stewart (1954)
• Vera Cruz with Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, as Tex (1954)
• Cattle Queen of Montana with Barbara Stanwyck and Ronald Reagan, as Yost (1954)
• Kiss Me Deadly, as Charlie Max (1955)
• Man Without a Star (1955)
• Wichita with Joel McCrea and Vera Miles, as Al Mann (1955)
• The Man From Laramie with James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, as Chris Boldt the town liar (1955)
• Kismet (1955)
• Jubal (1956) with Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine
• Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957)
• Night Passage (1957)
• The Girl in Lovers Lane (1959)
• A Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
• The Comancheros (1961)
• The Last Sunset (1961)
• 4 for Texas (1963)
• The Night of the Grizzly (1966)
• The Rare Breed (1966)
• The Way West (1967)
• Firecreek (1968)
• Never a Dull Moment (1968)
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
• Support Your Local Sheriff! with James Garner, as Deputy Jake (1968)
• The Over-the-Hill Gang (1969)
• Support Your Local Gunfighter! with James Garner, as Jug May (1970)
• Dirty Dingus Magee as John Wesley Hardin (1970)
• Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County with Dan Blocker and Nanette Fabray (1970)
• Rio Lobo as Philips, a rancher (1970)
• Hannie Caulder (1971)
• Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
• The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1975)
• Hawmps! (1976)
• Creature From Black Lake (1976)
• Grayeagle (1977)
• Hot Lead and Cold Feet, as Rattlesnake (1978)
• The Villain (1979)
• Louis L'Amour's The Sacketts (1979)
• The Cannonball Run, as Doctor Nikolas van Helsing (1981)
• Jinxed! (1982)
• Sacred Ground (1983)
• Cannonball Run II (1984)
• The Aurora Encounter, as Charlie (1985)
• Where The Hell's That Gold? (1988)
• Shadow Force (1993)
• Uninvited (1993)

 TV series

• Stories of the Century as Black Jack Ketchum (1954)
• Frontier as Father Matias in "Ferdinand Meyer's Army" and as Ness Fowler in "Cattle Drive to Casper" (1955)
• Sugarfoot (1957-1961)
• The Rifleman5 appearances, one as Sim Groner (series ran 1958-1963 date of episode needed)
• Tombstone Territory (1959) as Wally Jobe in the episode "Day of the Reckoning"
• Mackenzie's Raiders (1959) as Trooper Colin Grimes in the episode "Desertion"
• Bonanza episode "The Spitfire" (1961)
• Target: The Corruptors! (1962) guest star
• The Dakotas (1963) recurring role
• Temple Houston (1963-1964)
• The Legend of Jesse James (1965-1966) guest star
• Gunsmoke as a U.S. marshal (1971)
• The Brian Keith Show (1974) guest star
• The Texas Wheelers (1974-1975), situation comedy with costar Gary Busey
• Struck by Lightning (1979).^[6][7] Elam starred as Frankenstein's monster. In an interview, Elam recalled that when he was approached to take the part, he was told he would not need makeup; his appearance was already perfect for the part. This statement convinced him to accept the role.^{[citation needed]} The program only lasted about three weeks before it was canceled, either due to low ratings or because its use of dark humor made it inappropriate for American audiences at the time.
• Easy Street (1986)
• Home Improvement (1992) Guest star