Sam Elliott

Highest Rated: 100% Fail Safe (2000)

Lowest Rated: 9% Marmaduke (2010)

Birthday: Aug 9, 1944

Birthplace: Sacramento, California, USA

Through a cruel twist of fate, American actor Sam Elliott came to films at just the point that the sort of fare in which he should have thrived was dying at the box office. A born cowboy star if ever there was one, the stage-trained Elliot made his debut in a tiny role in the 1969 western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Within a few years, the western market had disappeared, and Elliot had to settle for standard good-guy roles in such contemporary films as Lifeguard (1976). Never tied down to any one type, Elliot's range has embraced sexy "other men" (Sibling Rivalry [1989]) and vicious rapist/murderers (the TV movie A Death in California [1986]). Still, one yearned to see Elliot playing frontiersmen; fortunately, the western genre had not completely disappeared on television, and Elliot was well-served with such hard-riding projects as The Sacketts (1977), I Will Fight No More Forever (1981), The Shadow Riders (1982), Houston: The Legend of Texas (1986) and Conagher (1991), in which he appeared with his wife, actress Katherine Ross. When westerns began showing up on the big screen again in the 1990s, Elliot was there, prominently cast as Virgil Earp in Tombstone (1993) and the made-for-cable sagebrusher The Desperate Trail (1995). Awarded Bronze Wrangler trophies for his involvement in Conagher, The Hi-Lo Country, and You Know My Name, Elliot also made an impression on Cohen Brothers fans with a memorable performance as the laid back Stranger in the cult hit The Big Lebowski. A featured role in the 2000 made for television remake Fail Safe found Elliot hanging up his duster to revisit rising Cold War tensions, and later that same year he would finally make the leap into the new millennium with his role as a presidential aid in Rod Lurie's Oscar-nominated hit The Contender. Rewarded with a double hernia as a result of his intense training efforts to prepare for a role in the 2002 Vietnam War drama We Were Soldiers, the then fifty-seven-year-old endured the pain through the entire production and put of surgery until shooting had wrapped. Though Elliot would remain in the armed forces to portray a military general hell-bent on destroying the Hulk in 2003, his onscreen authority would weaken somewhat when he was cast as a cancer-riddled Marlboro Man in the 2005 comedy Thank You for Smoking. After traveling to the far corners of the globe to carry out a little vigilante justice in the 2006 made for television thriller Avenger, Elliot would next break a little new ground by venturing into the world of animation by lending his distinctive voice to the character of Ben the Cow in Steve Oedekerk's rural family romp Barnyard. He co-starred with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig in The Golden Compass (2007), a film adaptation of the first installment of the wildly successful book series from author Philip Pullman. In 2009 he took on a role in the award winning comedy drama Up in the Air, and co-starred as an eccentric billionaire in director Tony Krantz's The Big Bang in 2011. He joined Robert Redford and Julie Christie to play a supporting role in 2012's comedy drama The Company You Keep.

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

		CREDIT
73%	The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot	Calvin Barr	—	2019
89%	A Star Is Born	Bobby	—	2018
78%	The Hero	Lee Hayden	$4.1M	2017
47%	Rock Dog	Fleetwood Yak	$9.5M	2017
No Score Yet	Audubon	John James Audubon	—	2017
76%	The Good Dinosaur	Butch	$123.1M	2015
65%	Digging For Fire	Pop Pop	$0.2M	2015
91%	Grandma	Karl	—	2015
93%	I'll See You in My Dreams	Bill	—	2015
60%	Draft Day	Coach Moore	$21.2M	2014
53%	The Company You Keep	Mac Mcleod	$5.2M	2013
19%	The Big Bang	Simon Kestral	—	2011
No Score Yet	November Christmas	Jess Sanford	—	2010
9%	Marmaduke	Chupadogra	$33.7M	2010
No Score Yet	For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots	Actor	—	2010
12%	Did You Hear About the Morgans?	Clay Wheeler	$29.6M	2009
91%	Up in the Air	Maynard Finch	$83.8M	2009
42%	The Golden Compass	Lee Scoursby	$70.2M	2007
27%	Ghost Rider	Caretaker	$115.9M	2007
22%	Barnyard	Ben	$72.7M	2006
No Score Yet	Avenger	Calvin Dexter	—	2006
86%	Thank You for Smoking	Lorne Lutch	$24.9M	2006
57%	Lies & Alibis	The Mormon	—	2006
62%	Hulk	General `Thunderbolt' Ross	$132.2M	2003
70%	Off the Map	Charley	$1.3M	2003
63%	We Were Soldiers	Plumley	$78.1M	2002
No Score Yet	Pretty When You Cry	Det. Lukas Black	—	2001
76%	The Contender	Kermit	$16.2M	2000
100%	Fail Safe	Congressman Raskob	—	2000
No Score Yet	You Know My Name	Executive Producer Bill Tilghman	—	1999
71%	Rush	Dodd	—	1999
54%	The Hi-Lo Country	Jim Ed Love	—	1998
82%	The Big Lebowski	The Stranger	—	1998
No Score Yet	Texarkana	Actor	—	1998
No Score Yet	Rough Riders	Bucky O'Neill	—	1997
No Score Yet	Once There Was a Ballpark	Actor	—	1997
No Score Yet	Adventures of Mowgli	Kaa (Voice in the English-language version)	—	1996
No Score Yet	Dogwatch	Charlie Falon	—	1996
No Score Yet	Dog Watch	Actor	—	1996
No Score Yet	Blue River	Henry Howland	—	1995
No Score Yet	El Guardabosque, el Cocinero y el Hoyo en el Cielo	Bill Bell	—	1995
No Score Yet	Buffalo Girls	Wild Bill Hickok	—	1995
No Score Yet	Woman Undone	Actor	—	1995
No Score Yet	The Desperate Trail	Marshall Bill Speakes	—	1994
73%	Tombstone	Virgil Earp	—	1993
80%	Gettysburg	Gen. John Buford	—	1993
No Score Yet	Conagher	Conn Conagher	—	1991
No Score Yet	Woman Undone	Ross Bishop	—	1991
22%	Sibling Rivalry	Charles Turner Jr.	—	1990
67%	Prancer	John Riggs	—	1989
38%	Road House	Wade Garrett	—	1989
63%	Shakedown	Richie Marks	—	1988
23%	Fatal Beauty	Mike Marshak	—	1987
No Score Yet	The Quick and the Dead	Con Vallian	—	1987
No Score Yet	Gone to Texas	Sam Houston	—	1986
No Score Yet	The Blue Lightning	Harry Wingate	—	1986
93%	Mask	Gar	—	1985
No Score Yet	The Shadow Riders	Dal Traven	—	1982
No Score Yet	Murder in Texas	Dr. John Hill	—	1981
No Score Yet	The Sacketts	Tell Sackett	—	1979
No Score Yet	Wild Times	Actor	—	1979
No Score Yet	The Legacy	Pete Danner	—	1978
No Score Yet	Lifeguard	Rick Carlson	—	1976
No Score Yet	Once an Eagle	Sgt. Sam Damon	—	1976
No Score Yet	I Will Fight No More Forever	Captain Wood	—	1975
29%	Frogs	Pickett Smith	—	1972
No Score Yet	Molly and Lawless John	Johnny Lawler	—	1972
No Score Yet	The Games	Richie Robinson	—	1970
90%	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	Card Player	—	1969
No Score Yet	The Adventures of Mowgli	Actor	—	1967

TV

		CREDIT
No Score Yet	The Late Show With Stephen Colbert 2015	Guest	2018
63%	The Ranch 2016	Beau	2018 2017 2016
No Score Yet	Charlie Rose 2013-2017	Guest	2017
No Score Yet	The Talk 2010	Guest	2017
97%	Justified 2010-2015	Avery Markham	2015
92%	Parks and Recreation 2009-2015	Guest	2013
No Score Yet	Mission: Impossible 1966-1973	Doug Dr. Doug Lane	2011 1971 1970
No Score Yet	Gunsmoke 1955-1975	Cory Soames	1972
No Score Yet	Robot Chicken 2005-2018	Narrator

QUOTES FROM Sam Elliott CHARACTERS

General `Thunderbolt' Ross	Gentlemen, release.
F-22 Pilot	Gamma charge away.

General `Thunderbolt' Ross

You are cleared to fire on target, Legend.

General `Thunderbolt' Ross

Okay, you`ve got him now. Take him on a ride to the top of the world. Let`s see what the thin air will do for him.

F-22 Pilot	I think I can come back around for a gun attack.
General `Thunderbolt' Ross	Acquire a clear target. Fire at will.

General `Thunderbolt' Ross	Tango Flight, do you have eyes on the target ?
Comanche Pilot	Tango One, I have him in the rocks.
General `Thunderbolt' Ross	Salvo all. Turn it into a parking lot.
Comanche Pilot	T - bolt, your parking lot is ready. We`re bingo for fuel and ammo. R.T.B.

General `Thunderbolt' Ross	Hit it again !
General `Thunderbolt' Ross	Hit it again!

Dr. David Banner	All right... I`ll go ! You just watch me go !
Dr. David Banner	All right... I`ll go! You just watch me go!
General `Thunderbolt' Ross	Hit it.
General `Thunderbolt' Ross	Hit it.

Arlo	He likes you.
Nash	Ha ha! Imagine that Ramsey. Are you interested to face?
Ramsey	Nash! Boundaries! This is my personal bubble.
Nash	Nah, that ain't your bubble, this is your bubble!
Butch	Nash! Get out of your sister's bubble!

Butch	"Don't overthink it, kid"
Butch	Don't overthink it, kid
Butch	Don't overthink it, kid.

Butch

If you ain't scared, you ain't alive.

General `Thunderbolt' Ross	Tango Flight, do you have eyes on the target ?
General `Thunderbolt' Ross	Tango Flight, do you have eyes on the target?
Comanche Pilot	Tango One, I have him in the rocks
Comanche Pilot	Tango One, I have him in the rocks.
General `Thunderbolt' Ross	Salvo all. Turn it into a parking lot.
General `Thunderbolt' Ross	Salvo all. Turn it into a parking lot.
Comanche Pilot	T - bolt, your parking lot is ready. We`re bingo for fuel and ammo. R.T.B.
Comanche Pilot	T-bolt, your parking lot is ready. We`re bingo for fuel and ammo. R.T.B.

John Riggs

You tear apart the babies rattle, and you see what makes the noise inside. But there is a veil covering the unseen world, which not the strongest man could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love and romance, can push aside that curtain and view the beauty and the glory beyond. Is it all real? Virginia, in all this world, there is nothing else real in the body...Santa Claus, thank god he lives. And lives forever, a thousand years from now, ten times ten thousand years from now, and he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

General "Thunderbolt" Ross

One more thing, if you ever... come within a thousand yards of my daughter again, I'll put you away for the rest of your natural life.

Wade Garrett

You got a skinny little runt named Dalton working here?

Wade Garrett

A man puts a gun in yer face, you got two choices - stand there 'n die or kill the motherfucker!

Wade Garrett

I'll get all the sleep I need when I'm dead.

Wade Garrett

The Double Douche!

Wade Garrett

That gal's got entirely too many brains to have an ass like that.

Wade Garrett

This place has a sign hangin' over the urinal that says, "Don't eat the big white mint".

The Stranger

Sometimes you eat the bar and sometimes, well, the bar eats you.

The Stranger	There's just one thing, dude.
The Dude	What's that?
The Stranger	Do you have to use so many cuss words?
The Dude	What the fuck you talkin' about?

Chupadogra

Something tells me it's not to late to be the real you.

SGM Basil Plumley

What are you, the f*cking weatherman.

Caretaker

The thing about legends is...sometimes they're true.

Caretaker

It's said that the West was built on legends...and that legends are a way of understanding things greater than ourselves. Forces that shape our lives. Events that defy explanation. Individuals whose lives soar to the heavens...or fall to the earth. This is how legends are born.

Caretaker

Any man who's got the guts to sell his soul for love...got the power to change the world.

Dag the Coyote	Ben! How are you, Ben? We would've said hello had we seen ya.
Ben the Cow	Put the hen down, Dag.
Dag the Coyote	Sure, Ben. Whatever you say. We're just doin' a little courtin', that's all. You know how much we like the hens. [Chuckles evilly] You know me, lady killer.

The Stranger

The Dude abides. I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that. It's good knowing he's out there, the Dude, takin' 'er easy for all us sinners.

Caretaker	You alll right?
Caretaker	You all right?
Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider	Yeah, I'm good. I feel lke my skull is on fire, but I'm good.
Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider	Yeah I'm good, feels like my skull's on fire, but I'm good.

The Stranger	Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes, well, he eats you.
The Stranger	Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes, well, he eats you.

The Stranger

Darkness warshed over the Dude - darker'n a black steer's tookus on a moonless prairie night.

The Stranger

The dude abides...

Lorne Lutch	You look like a nice enough fella. What are you doing working for these assholes?
Nick Naylor	I'm good at it. Better at doing this than I ever was at doing anything else.