Sam Elliott Trivia | 50 facts about the famous actor

Sam Elliott is an American actor. He is currently the star of the hit TV series “1883”, a prequel to “Yellowstone”.

So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about him.

1. His full name is Samuel Pack Elliott
2. He was born on August 9, 1944
3. He is an American actor
4. He is the recipient of several accolades
5. These include a National Board of Review Award, and has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards
6. Elliott is known for his distinctive lanky physique, full mustache, and deep, sonorous, resonant voice
7. He began his film career with minor appearances in The Way West (1967), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), season five of Mission: Impossible
8. He also guest-starred on television in the Western Gunsmoke (1972) and the television films Murder in Texas (1981) and The Shadow Riders (1982)
9. He starred in Frogs (1972)
10. His film breakthrough was in the drama Lifeguard (1976)
11. He then appeared in several Louis L’Amour adaptations such as The Quick and the Dead (1987) and Conagher (1991)
12. The latter of which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
13. He received his second Golden Globe and first Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Buffalo Girls (1995)
14. Other film credits from the early 1990s include as John Buford in the historical drama Gettysburg (1993) and as Virgil Earp in the Western Tombstone (also 1993)
15. In the 2000s, Elliott appeared in supporting roles in the drama We Were Soldiers (2002), and the superhero films Hulk (2003), and Ghost Rider (2007)
16. In 2015, he guest-starred on the series Justified
17. This earned him a Critics’ Choice Television Award
18. And in 2016 began starring in the Netflix series The Ranch
19. He subsequently had a lead role in the comedy-drama The Hero (2017)
20. The following year, Elliott was cast in the musical drama A Star Is Born (2018)
21. For which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Critics’ Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
22. For his role in A Star Is Born he won a National Board of Review Award
23. Elliott plays Shea Brennan in the American drama 1883
24. Samuel Pack Elliott was born August 9, 1944, in Sacramento, California
25. He is the son of Glynn Mamie, a physical training instructor and high school teacher
26. And Henry Nelson Elliott (1911-1966), who worked as a predator control specialist for the Department of the Interior
27. His parents were originally from El Paso, Texas
28. Elliott has an ancestor who served as a surgeon at the Battle of San Jacinto
29. He moved from California to Portland, Oregon, with his family when he was 13 years old
30. Elliott spent his teenage years living in northeast Portland
31. He graduated from David Douglas High School in 1962
32. After graduating from high school, Elliott attended college at the University of Oregon as an English and psychology major for two terms
33. He later dropped out
34. He returned to Portland and attended Clark College in nearby Vancouver, Washington
35. There he completed a two-year program and was cast as Big Jule in a stage production of Guys and Dolls
36. The Vancouver Columbian newspaper suggested that Elliott should be a professional actor
37. After his graduation from Clark in 1965, Elliott re-enrolled at the University of Oregon and pledged at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity
38. He dropped out again before completing his studies after his father died of a heart attack
39. In the late 1960s, Elliott relocated to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting
40. Which his father had dissuaded him from doing, instead urging him to obtain a college degree
41. Elliott worked in construction while studying acting and served in the California Air National Guard’s 146th Airlift Wing (the Hollywood Guard) at Van Nuys Airport
42. This was before the unit moved to Channel Islands Air National Guard Station
43. Elliott married actress Katharine Ross in 1984
44. Ross starred in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, in which Elliott had a very small role in 1969
45. They had not a single scene together
46. The two did not meet again and begin dating until 1978
47. When they both starred in The Legacy
48. They have a daughter, Cleo Rose Elliott (born September 17, 1984), who is now a musician in Malibu, California
49. Ross and Elliott live on a seaside ranch in Malibu, which they purchased in the 1970s
50. Elliott also maintains a property in the Willamette Valley in Oregon