Sam Elliott Bio, Age, Wife, Children, Movies, Net Worth & TV Shows

Sam Elliott is an American actor, who is famous for performing characters like ‘General Ross’ in ‘Hulk’ (2003) and ‘Carter Slade’ in ‘Ghost Rider’ (2007). He is also known for playing gun-slinging cowboys in films like ‘The Quick and the Dead’ and ‘Tombstone,’ as well as his role in the cult favorite ‘The Big Lebowski. Well-built, tall, and thanked with rough good-looks, he was often cast as a cowboy and rancher. His deep, thrilly voice and Western drawl added to his charm as the ultimate on-screen American cowboy. Renowned for his passion for acting and devotion towards his profession, Elliot knew from the time he was a child that he was meant to be an actor. He was an obstinate youngster who often got into arguments with his father who opposed his choice of profession.

As a college student, he played one of the leads in stage production and received rave reviews for his performance. Soon, he decided to make it big in Hollywood. He began his acting career from the stage and made his film debut in ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ in 1969. Subsequently, he became a good applicant for Western movies and was periodically cast as a cowboy and rancher. When the popularity of Western films began to decline, he operated on television and settled himself as a successful television actor. Well past his prime, the gallant actor shows no signs of slowing down as he is as effective as ever in films and television.

Sam Elliott Bio/ Wiki

Family, Education & More

Sam Elliott was born on August 9, 1944, in Sacramento, California. His Mother Glynn Mamie, a physical training instructor, and high school teacher. His father Henry Nelson Elliott, worked as a predator control specialist for the Department of the Interior. His parents were originally from El Paso, Texas, and Elliott has an ancestor who served as a surgeon at the Battle of San Jacinto. He moved from California to Portland, Oregon, with his parents when he was 13 years old.

Sam spent his young age living in northeast Portland and graduated from David Douglas High School in 1962. After graduating from high school, Elliott attended college at the University of Oregon as an English and psychology major for two terms before dropping out. He returned to Portland and joined Clark College nearby Vancouver, Washington. He completed a two-year program and was cast as Big Jule, one of the leads, in a stage production of Guys and Dolls.

After his graduation from Clark in 1965, he re-enrolled at the University of Oregon and pledged at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He dropped out again before completing his studies after his father died of a heart attack.

Sam Elliott Net Worth

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Wife/ Spouse

Katharine Ross (1978-Present): Sam Elliott and Katharine Ross are one of the lucky few exceptions. The couple has been married for 34 years, which is quite the benchmark for the movie business. Sam started dating actress Katharine Ross in 1978. They had fallen in love while shooting for the horror movie, The Legacy.

They were earlier cast in the 1969 release, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid but as both of them were cast in minor roles. They didn’t get to meet each other. They took their relationship to the next level in 1984 by getting married. The same year, they welcomed a daughter, Cleo Rose Elliott, into their family.

Debut Movie: ‘Butch Cassidy’

Sam moved to Hollywood and got his first acting role as an appearance in the 1969 classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. In this movie, Robert Redford and Paul Newman entertained audiences as the titular pair of Western outlaws. Elliott’s role, “Card Player No. 2,” was somewhat less prominent.

As a bit player, Elliott never got a chance to speak with the movie’s leading actress Katharine Ross. She was cast as Redford’s lover. Nearly ten years later, Elliott and Ross would meet again while on the film The Legacy (1978).

Exploring His Own Path

Through the 1970s, Elliott found regular work in television roles on shows. In this period he appeared in Mission: Impossible, Gunsmoke, and Hawaii Five-O. He also played Evel Knievel in a TV biopic about the legendary motorcycle-jumping daredevil. Though Elliott’s good looks could have placed him squarely in the heartthrob category, he shunned a conventional Hollywood career.

He not only refused typical leading man roles but began maintaining what would become his signature long hair and a handlebar mustache. He said “I don’t want to be known as an s*x symbol,” he told Playgirl magazine in 1976. “There’s a great scar that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.”

‘Mask’

Being “a Sam Elliott” meant taking on more challenging, supporting roles in a wide array of films. Elliott had a supporting role in Mask (1985) opposite Cher, a drama based on the true story of Rocky Dennis, a boy who suffered from craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, a rare and disfiguring disorder.

After four years later he played a sympathetic father figure in the Christmas film Prancer (1989).

‘Road House’

Three years later, Elliott earned serious fans with 1989’s Road House, playing the mentor to Patrick Swayze’s James Dalton, a bouncer with a mysterious past.

‘The Big Lebowski’

The actor’s most loved role, however, may have been his role as the Stranger, the mysterious novelist of the Coen Brothers’ cult classic The Big Lebowski (1998), which still inspires fans to approach him in the street begging him to say, just once, “The Dude abides.”

Western Movies

Elliott may be best known for his work filming Western heroes and outlaws. Over the course of his career, he has played gun-slinging cowboys in both television shows and films including The Quick and the Dead (1987), Houston: The Legend of Texas (1986), Tombstone (1993) and You Know My Name (1999).

For his work as an on-screen cowboy, Elliott was inducted in 2007 into the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Elliott has said of his penchant for Westerns: “I think it has something to do with integrity and a man’s word and honor and all that kind of stuff like values, morality, all that kind of stuff that everybody looks kind of down their nose at.”

Later Film and TV Shows

Elliott has played Lee Scoresby in 2007’s The Golden Compass, the first film based on Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy; a pilot in 2009’s Up in the Air; and the voice of Chupadogra in 2010’s animated Marmaduke.

Additionally, he rode his convincing reputation as a Western-type to small-screen gigs on Justified and The Ranch, as well as a starring role in The Hero (2017), about an aging Western actor dealing with a terminal illness.

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‘A Star Is Born’

In 2018, Elliott seen in the eagerly anticipated remake of A Star Is Born. As the half-brother and manager of Bradley Cooper’s struggling country music singer. The performance impressed people, resulting in an Academy Award nomination for the veteran actor.

The awards buzz helped raise the profile of another Elliott’s project, The Man Who Killed Hitler and Bigfoot, scheduled for an American theatrical release in February 2019.

Elliott’s work may delve into the realm of fantasy, but that’s ultimately how Elliott sees the real life of every actor. “We’re the great pretenders, some not so great probably, but that’s what we do,” Elliott said. “We pretend for a living.”

Facts

• He had to drop out of the 1982 thriller, The Ambush Murders due to illness. He was replaced by James Brolin in the project.
• He was in love with movies at a very young age. By the age of 9, he had realized that he wanted to become an actor.
• After dropping out of the final year at the University of Oregon, he moved to Los Angeles to study acting. To pay his bills, he used to work part-time in construction.
• For a very brief period of time, he also served in the California Army National Guard.
• In 2015, he was honored with induction into the International Mustache Hall of Fame in the film and television category.
• He was very keen to reprise the role of General Ross in the reboot The Incredible Hulk after having played it in 2003 release, Hulk. However, he was looked over in favor of William Hurt.
• While studying in college, he was pretty active in local and college theater and his portrayal of one of the leads in the production of Guys and Dolls was highly praised by local newspapers.
• When he got his breakthrough in show business in the 70s, he was counted amongst leading male s*x symbols. However, he wasn’t a fan of that tag as he believed there was a lot of disgrace attached to the tag.
• To prepare for his highly acclaimed role in Tombstone, he trained with renowned gun expert Thell Reed, who has trained leading actors such as Val Kilmer, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Russell Crowe.

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