http://edition.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/22/obit.elam.ap/ His role in "Cannonball Run" -- as Dr. Nicholas van Helsing, doctor of proctology and other related tendancies and graduate of the University of Rangoon (and assorted classes at the Knoxville, Tenn., College of Faith Healing) -- will, to me, always be one of the funniest things ever put on film. He was around for quite a while and did a lot of westerns: http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0001181/