Everything about Sam Elliott totally explained
Samuel Pack Elliott (born
August 9,
1944) is an
American actor. In films, he's often characterized by his rangy physique, thick
horseshoe moustache and gruff speaking voice.
Biography
Early life
Elliott was born in
Sacramento,
California to a physical training instructor mother and a father who worked for the
Department of the Interior. He moved from California to
Oregon with his family during his teenage years, where he graduated from
David Douglas High School in
Portland. He attended
Clark College in
Vancouver, Washington, where he completed a two-year program. Elliott is a member of the
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at the
California State University, Los Angeles. He worked in construction while studying acting in Los Angeles. Elliott also lived for a short time in
Princeton, West Virginia.
Career
Elliott began his career as a character actor, his appearance and bearing ideally suited for
Westerns.
His debut role in film (a bit part as 'Card Player #2') was in 1969's
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
During 1970-71, Elliott starred as Doug Robert in the hit
TV series and later played a wife killer in the
miniseries Murder in Texas (1981) and
A Death in California (1986). He has made guest appearances on shows such as
Felony Squad,
Gunsmoke,
Lancer and
Hawaii Five-O and has been featured in many
TV movies; for instance, he played
Wild Bill Hickock in
Buffalo Girls (1995). In 1998, Elliot was named the grand marshall of the
Calgary Stampede parade and rode in the procession before 300,000 spectators.
The young Elliott was often cast for his masculine appeal. In his early movies—
The Games,
Frogs,
Molly and Lawless John—he performed a number of scenes without his shirt. In 1975's
Lifeguard, he appeared in much of the movie wearing nothing more than a pair of swim trunks. In 1978's
The Legacy, he shed all his clothes for a nude scene. As late as 2003, when he was in his late 50s, Elliott still managed to retain his sex appeal as he stripped to the waist for a scene in
Off the Map.
Elliott's voice can be heard as the voice-over narration for commercials from time to time. In the past, he's lent his voice to campaigns for
Chevy,
IBM,
Union Pacific, and, most notably, took over as the voice of the
American Beef Council after
Robert Mitchum died. In 2007,
Toyota hired Elliott to perform voice-overs for the new
Toyota Tundra truck commercials, playing on the rich and gravelly delivery of his voice. In late 2007, Elliot has been heard doing voice-overs for Coors Beer, bringing his deep, rich voice and "western" appeal to the beer brewed in Colorado.
Interestingly, the
US Army's Officer Professional Development Recommended Reading List includes only two
novels:
The Killer Angels by
Michael Shaara and
Once an Eagle by
Anton Myrer. The one common element in both novels is that Elliott has a starring role in the film adaptations of both, playing a US Army general officer. Elliott also co-stars in another movie,
We Were Soldiers, which is based on a book from that same reading list
We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young, portraying Sgt. Maj.
Basil L. Plumley.
Personal life
Elliott has been married to actress
Katharine Ross since 1984. Although Ross starred in the 1969 film
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in which Elliott had a very small role, the two didn't meet and begin dating until 1978 when they both starred with
Roger Daltrey in
The Legacy. He and Ross had a daughter, Cleo Rose, on September 17, 1984.
Filmography
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