1. Samuel Pack Elliott was born on August 9,1944 and is an American actor.
47 Facts About Sam Elliott
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Sam Elliott began his career with minor roles on screen, making his film debut in the western The Way West.
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Sam Elliott achieved commercial success with his role in the biopic Mask and received Golden Globe nominations for starring in Louis L'Amour's adaptation of Conagher and the miniseries Buffalo Girls, the latter of which earned him his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
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In ensuing decades, Sam Elliott established himself as a character actor, with supporting roles in a number of films, such as the drama We Were Soldiers and superhero films Hulk and Ghost Rider.
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Sam Elliott went on to headline the comedy drama film The Hero and star opposite Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper in Cooper's 2018 adaptation of A Star Is Born, for which he received critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Samuel Pack Elliott was born August 9,1944, at the Sutter Memorial Hospital in Sacramento, California, the son of Glynn Mamie, a Texas state diving champion in high school and later a physical-training instructor and high-school teacher, and Henry Nelson Elliott, who worked as a predator-control specialist for the Department of the Interior.
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Sam Elliott's parents were originally from El Paso, Texas, and Elliott has an ancestor who served as a surgeon at the Battle of San Jacinto.
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Sam Elliott moved from California to Portland, Oregon, with his family when he was 13 years old.
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Sam Elliott spent his teenage years living in northeast Portland, and graduated from David Douglas High School in 1962.
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Sam Elliott returned to Portland and attended Clark College in nearby Vancouver, Washington, where he completed a two-year program and was cast as Big Jule in a stage production of Guys and Dolls.
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The Vancouver Columbian newspaper suggested that Sam Elliott should be a professional actor.
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Sam Elliott dropped out again after his father died of a heart attack.
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Sam Elliott had a work ethic that I've fashioned mine after, and I thank him for that every day.
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Sam Elliott began his career as a character actor; his appearance, voice, and bearing were well-suited to Westerns.
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Sam Elliott went on to appear in two additional episodes of the series between 1970 and 1971.
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In 1975, Sam 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 US government's forcible removal of his Nez Perce Indian tribe to a reservation in Idaho.
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Sam Elliott had a starring role as Rick Carlson in the summer sleeper hit Lifeguard, which marked his feature film breakthrough.
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Sam Elliott portrayed a lifeguard in Southern California who reevaluates his life choices after being invited to a reunion.
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Sam Elliott played Tom Keating in the miniseries Aspen in 1977.
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Sam Elliott later played an abusive wife-killer in the miniseries Murder in Texas opposite Farrah Fawcett and his future wife Katharine Ross, and starred with Cheryl Ladd in A Death in California.
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Sam Elliott had a supporting role in Mask opposite Cher.
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Sam Elliott played a hard-nosed, rough-around-the-edges but ultimately sympathetic father figure in the Christmas film Prancer.
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Sam Elliott has made guest appearances on shows including Felony Squad, Gunsmoke, Lancer, and Hawaii Five-O, and has been featured in many TV movies, including Buffalo Girls, in which he played Wild Bill Hickok.
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Sam Elliott appeared with Patrick Swayze in Road House as Wade Garrett, a bouncer, mentor and friend of Swayze's character.
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Sam Elliott played The Stranger, a character narrating the story of The Big Lebowski.
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Sam Elliott played General Thaddeus Ross in the 2003 action film Hulk.
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In 2007, Sam Elliott joined the comic book adaptation Ghost Rider.
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In 2009, Sam Elliott had a small role in Up In The Air in which he portrayed the chief pilot of American Airlines.
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Sam Elliott appeared three times on Parks and Recreation as Ron Dunn, the Eagleton equivalent of Ron Swanson; Dunn is a hippie, compared to Swanson's staunch survivalist and Libertarian personality.
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Sam Elliott had a supporting role in the thriller film The Company You Keep and played a college football coach in 2014's drama film Draft Day.
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In 2015, Sam Elliott appeared opposite Lily Tomlin as a former love interest of a grandmother attempting to help her pregnant granddaughter in Paul Weitz's comedy Grandma.
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In 2015, Sam Elliott began appearing as a series regular in the Netflix series The Ranch, opposite Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson.
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Sam Elliott had a recurring role as Phil Millstein in the second season of Grace and Frankie.
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In 2017, Sam 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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Sam Elliott received critical acclaim for his performance, winning the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Sam Elliott was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role, as well as the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, his career-first nomination.
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In 2022, Sam Elliott starred as Shea Brennan on the Paramount+ miniseries 1883, a prequel to the Yellowstone series.
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In 1998, Sam 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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Sam Elliott has lent his voice to campaigns for Dodge, IBM, Kinney Drugs, Union Pacific, and most notably the American Beef Council, succeeding Robert Mitchum in the latter.
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Since late 2007 Sam Elliott has done voice-overs for Coors beer, bringing his deep, rich voice and "western" appeal to the brand brewed in Colorado.
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In 2010, Ram Trucks hired Sam Elliott to do the voice-over for their Ram Heavy Duty truck commercial; he has been voicing their commercials since.
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Sam Elliott narrated the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers team introductions to Super Bowl XLV, played at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas at the conclusion of the 2010 NFL season for NFL on Fox.
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On September 9,2020, it was announced that Sam 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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Sam Elliott married actress Katharine Ross in 1984, becoming her fifth husband.
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Sam Elliott maintains a property in the Willamette Valley in Oregon.
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Sam Elliott has received a number of awards and nominations for his numerous screen performances.
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For starring opposite Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper in Cooper's 2018 adaptation of A Star Is Born, Sam Elliott won the National Board of Review Award and received nominations for the AACTA International, Academy Award, Critics' Choice and SAG Award for Best Supporting Actor, as well as another nomination for the SAG Award for Outstanding Cast.