"I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual."
Samuel Pack Elliott (born August 9, 1944 in Sacramento, California) is an American actor. He's something of a living legend and is instantly recognizable due to his incredible moustache, bass-baritone voice and Western drawl. He frequently plays cowboys, ranchers and other Southern types. Basically the go-to guy for Cool Old Guy and Baritone of Strength. You don't get much manlier than Sam Elliott.
Oh — and though Robert Mitchum did it first, Elliot's is the voice you think of when you remember the "Beef... it's what's for dinner" commercials.
Elliott has one daughter with his wife, Katherine Ross (Elaine in The Graduate), who he's been married to for 35 years.note
Film roles:
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) as Card Player #2
- Frogs (1972) as Pickett Smith
- The Legacy (1978) as Pete Danner
- Mask (1985) as Gar
- Road House (1989) as Wade Garrett
- Prancer (1989) as John Riggs
- Tombstone (1993) as Virgil Earp
- Gettysburg (1993) as Gen. John Buford, credited as a "special appearance"
- The Big Lebowski (1998) as the Stranger
- The Contender (2000) as Kermit Newman
- We Were Soldiers (2002) as Sergeant Major Basil L. Plumley
- Hulk (2003) as Gen. Thunderbolt Ross
- Thank You for Smoking (2005) as Lorne Lutch
- Barnyard (2006) as Ben
- Ghost Rider (2007) as The Caretaker/Carter Slade
- The Golden Compass (2007) as Lee Scoresby
- Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) as Clay Wheeler
- Up in the Air (2009) as Maynard Finch
- The Good Dinosaur (2015) as Butch
- Rock Dog (2016) as Fleetwood Yak
- A Star Is Born (2018) as Bobby
- The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018) as Calvin Barr
- Lady and the Tramp (2019) as Trusty
TV roles:
- Mission: Impossible (1970-71) as Doug Robert
- Robot Chicken (2012) as Various
- Parks and Recreation (2013-15) as Ron Dunn
- Justified (2015) as Avery Markham
- The Ranch (2016) as Beau Bennett
- Family Guy (2019-present) as Wild Wild West
- 1883 (2021-22) as Shea Brennan
