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<a href="/biography/sam-elliott">Samuel Pack Elliot</a> was born August 9, 1944 in Sacramento, California. He moved to Portland, Oregon as a teenager and graduated from David Douglas High School. He then attended Clark College in Vancouver, Washington where he was cast as one of the leads in a production of Guys and Dolls as he completed a two-year program. A write-up of the event in the local newspaper suggested that Elliot should be a professional <a href="/biography/sam-elliott">actor</a>. He took the advice to heart and decided to head back to his native California in hopes of being a Hollywood Star. He studied acting at California State University, Los Angeles and simultaneously served in the California Air National Guard's 163rd Airlift Wing. He also briefly worked as a construction worker.

Elliot's father, who worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, was skeptical of his son's career choice. Unfortunately Sam was unable to prove himself to his father, who died of a heart attack when Sam was only 18 years old. "He died thinking, 'Man, this kid is going to go down the wrong path,'" the younger Elliot said in an interview. "And I think on some levels that was either hard on me or made me more focused in my resolve to have a career." He credited his father with many of the traits that made him famous. When speaking of his father and his father's friends, "they were all men's men and outdoorsmen", Elliot reminisces, and from watching them he gained his signature personality. He also claims to have Western genes. "My family had a relative that fought at the Alamo", he says. "I've got history in Texas." He tells Parade Magazine "I'm a sixth-generation Texan, even though I was born in California."

In 1969 he gained his first television credit in Judd for the Defense as Dan Kenyon in the episode "The Crystal Maze." Later that same year he appeared in the show Lancer in an episode called "Death Bait." Also starring in that episode was <a href="/biography/tom-selleck">Tom Selleck</a>, his future <a href="/biography/tom-selleck">co-star</a> and friend. The duo would team up in 1979 as brothers in Louis L'amour's The Sacketts and again in 1982 in another Louis L'Amour adaptation The Shadow Riders.

Elliot continued on to be in several popular films and TV roles. One of his first was in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969, followed by the TV series Mission Impossible from 1970-1971 where he starred for 13 episodes. Ironically, In 1981 he played the role of a wife killer in Murder in Texas alongside his future <a href="/biography/katharine-ross">wife</a> <a href="/biography/katharine-ross">Katherine Ross</a>. They co-starred together later in 1991 in Conagher, an adaptation of the Louis L'Amour novel Conagher. He also made apperances in popular shows such as Felony Squad, Gunsmoke, and Hawaii Five-O.

Elliot had numerous roles that honored the military. He portrayed Sgt. Maj. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_L._Plumley">Basil L. Plumley</a> in the historical account We Were Soldiers Once... And Young. He also portrayed John Buford in the 1993 film Gettysburg. However, not all of his roles were so honorable or historically accurate. In 1998 he played The Stranger in the comedy The Big Lebowski, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_Ross">General</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_Ross">Thunderbolt Ross</a> in the 2003 film Hulk. He played <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caretaker_(comics)">Carter Slade</a> in the 2007 comic book adaptation of Ghost Rider and appeared in The Golden Compass that same year. He has also appeared three times on the television comedy Parks and Recreation as Ron Dunn, opposite <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Swanson">Ron Swanson</a>.

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In addition to his impressive repertoire of acting roles, Elliot has done voice over work for commercials and campaigns for Dodge, IBM, Kinney Drugs, Union Pacific, and the American Beef Council. In 2007 he became the voice of the Colorado based Coors beer. He has famously voiced Smokey Bear starting in 2008, and he also shares the mascot's birth date. In 2010 he began voicing commercials for Ram Trucks. He has also voiced roles as Ben the Cow in Barnyard, Buster in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmaduke_(film)">Marmaduke</a>, and Butch in The Good Dinosaur. He has also narrated team introductions for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers for Super Bowl XLV at the end of the 2010 NFL season.

Elliot was most frequently cast for Westerns due to his appearance and voice. "I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle", he states. "It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors."

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Cooper">Bradley Cooper</a> used Sam Elliot's voice as the inspiration for his character in the remake of "A Star is Born". "It was weird", said Elliot about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Cooper">Cooper</a>'s movie voice at the Los Angeles premiere of the drama. "It was good." Elliot is included in the film as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Cooper">Cooper</a>'s older brother. "He did establish the voice before Sam Elliot was going to be in the movie, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynette_Howell_Taylor">producer</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynette_Howell_Taylor">Lynette Howell Taylor</a> reported. "And then he had to go convince Sam Elliot to be in the movie."

"I went to meet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Cooper">Bradley</a> in his home", Elliot said. "I'd never met him before. I spent a couple hours there talking with him and one of the things he did while I was there, he played this tape of him and his voice coach. And he was sounding a lot like me. I didn't have any tips at all, he already had it down."

<a href="/biography/katharine-ross">Katherine Ross</a> and Sam Elliot first met on the movie The Legacy in 1978, although they had worked together in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid but were never introduced to one another. The Legacy was a notable film for Sam Elliot not only for meeting his future wife, but for being the first film in which he exposed his backside to the camera. Sam and <a href="/biography/katharine-ross">Katherine</a>'s relationship was somewhat controversial, in that <a href="/biography/katharine-ross">Katherine</a> was currently married during the beginning of their relationship and was currently on her fourth husband. Her divorce came in 1979, the same year Sam and <a href="/biography/katharine-ross">Katherine</a> were dubbed by Playgirl as "Hollywood's Sexiest Couple." In response, Sam stated "There's a great stigma that  goes with that tag. I want to be Sam Elliot." <a href="/biography/katharine-ross">Katherine</a> and Sam married in 1984 and gave birth to their daughter four months later. Cleo Rose Elliot was born Septmber 17, 1984. She is currently a <a href="/biography/katharine-ross">musician</a> in Malibu, California. Elliot and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_Ross">Ross</a> also live in Malibu on their ranch estate.

"It completes me", he told Parade Magazine. "I've been married one time and I have one daughter, who I love more than anyone in the world. And that's where my world is."

Sam Elliot's net worth is currently estimated to be around $16 million.

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