“That was kind of the beginning. I had an affinity for that whole Western thing. Being typecast, I was the guy that they went to.”
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Sam Elliott
Samuel Pack Elliott is an American actor. With a career spanning nearly six decades of film and television, he is recognized for his deep sonorous voice. Elliott has received various accolades, including a Screen Actors Guild Award and a National Board of Review Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.
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Born 9 August 1944 · Q311314
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2026· 3 entries
Cowboys and Indians Magazine: Western Watch List: 10 Essential Sam Elliott Westerns
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Far Out Magazine: The 2007 movie Sam Elliott called the most underrated he’ll ever make: “Great in its potential”
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2025· 1 entry
Elliott starred in the second season of the Paramount+ series Landman, as T
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2023· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Sam Elliott was dead, as of August 2023.” False.
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2022· 1 entry
Elliott starred as Shea Brennan on the Paramount+ miniseries 1883, a prequel to the Yellowstone series
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2020· 3 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Actor Sam Elliott publicly expressed his personal support for Joe Biden's presidential candidacy in 2020.” Mixture.
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It was announced that Elliott would begin recurring on Family Guy as the new mayor of Quahog, the late Mayor Adam West's cousin, Wild Wild West
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Voiced Joe Biden's "Go From There" campaign ad
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2019· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Actor Sam Elliott died in July 2019.” False.
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“I think the thing off the top of my head might be,”
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2017· 1 entry
Elliott starred in The Hero, as Lee Hayden, an aging Western icon with a golden voice, whose best performances are decades behind him
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2015· 3 entries
Elliott appeared opposite Lily Tomlin as a former love interest of a grandmother (Tomlin) attempting to help her pregnant granddaughter in Paul Weitz's comedy Grandma
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Elliott began appearing as a series regular in the Netflix series The Ranch, opposite Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson
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Won the Critics' Choice Television Award for best guest performer in a drama for his role in the FX Network's show Justified
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2011· 1 entry
At the age of 96, he also took ownership of his childhood home in northeast Portland
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2010· 1 entry
Ram Trucks hired Elliott to do the voice-over for their Ram Heavy Duty truck commercial; he has been voicing their commercials since
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2009· 1 entry
Elliott had a small role in Up In The Air in which he portrayed the chief pilot of American Airlines
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2008· 1 entry
Has voiced Smokey Bear, and shares the mascot's birth date (August 9, 1944)
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2007· 1 entry
Elliott joined the comic book adaptation Ghost Rider
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2006· 1 entry
Provided the voice for the character Ben the Cow in the animated film Barnyard
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2005· 1 entry
Appeared in Thank You for Smoking as a former Marlboro Man advertisement cowboy who has developed lung cancer
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1998· 1 entry
Elliott was named the grand marshal of the Calgary Stampede parade and rode in the procession before an estimated 300,000 spectators
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1991· 1 entry
Elliott and his wife Katharine Ross starred in the adaptation of the Louis L'Amour novel Conagher (1991)
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1986· 1 entry
Starred in the TV movie Gone to Texas, based on a biography of Sam Houston
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1982· 1 entry
In The Shadow Riders, another Louis L'Amour adaption
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1979· 1 entry
Co-starred with Tom Selleck in the popular miniseries adaptation of Louis L'Amour's The Sacketts
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1975· 1 entry
Elliott was cast in a lead role as Charles Wood in the television film I Will Fight No More Forever, a dramatization of Chief Joseph's resistance to the U
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1972· 1 entry
Elliott appeared as the cowboy Walker in a series of Falstaff Beer commercials
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1969· 1 entry
Earned his first television credit as Dan Kenyon in Judd for the Defense in the episode "The Crystal Maze"
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1965· 1 entry
Elliott re-enrolled at the University of Oregon and pledged at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity
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1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-08-09.
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