Biography
Samuel Pack Elliott (born August 9, 1944) is an American actor. His rangy physique, thick horseshoe moustache, and deep, resonant voice (with a Western twang/drawl) match the iconic image of a cowboy or rancher, and he has often been cast in such roles.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Gettysburg Address
2025
as Ward Hill Lamon (voice)
In the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln went to Gettysburg. "The Gettysburg Address" investigates the five extant copies of Lincoln's famous ...

National Memorial Day Concert
2023
as Self
On the eve of Memorial Day, a star-studded lineup will grace the stage for one of PBS' highest-rated programs. This multi-award-winning television eve...

Lady and the Tramp
2019
as Trusty (voice)
The love story between a pampered Cocker Spaniel named Lady and a streetwise mongrel named Tramp. Lady finds herself out on the street after her owner...

I Am Patrick Swayze
2019
as Self
An inside look at the life of Patrick Swayze as told by the people who knew him best.

The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot
2019
as Calvin Barr
Decades after serving in WWII and assassinating Adolf Hitler, a legendary American war veteran must now hunt down the fabled Bigfoot.

The Road to Stardom: The Making of A Star Is Born
2018
as Self
A look at the making of “A Star Is Born,” featuring director/star/writer/producer Bradley Cooper and star Lady Gaga, both of whom also wrote and produ...

A Star Is Born
2018
as Bobby Maine
Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers — and falls in love with — struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big a...

Audubon
2017
as Narrator (voice)
Audubon: Naturalist and 19th century painter, John James Audubon was one of the most remarkable men of early America. A contemporary of Lewis & Clark ...

The Hero
2017
as Lee Hayden
Lee, a former Western film icon, is living a comfortable existence lending his golden voice to advertisements and smoking weed. After receiving a life...

Rock Dog
2016
as Fleetwood Yak (voice)
When a radio falls from the sky into the hands of a wide-eyed Tibetan Mastiff, he leaves home to fulfill his dream of becoming a musician, setting int...

Limbo
2016
as The Dog (voice)
A short film adaptation of a comic strip by Marian Churchland. A man is stranded on the side of the road and finds a dying dog. He gives the dog water...
A Tale of Two Cities: Part 2
2015
The 49ers–Cowboys rivalry during the 1990s, when San Francisco and Dallas faced each other in the NFC Championship Game three consecutive times.
A Tale of Two Cities
2015
The story of the intense rivalry between the San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys that lasted through the entire 1980's and 1990's.

The Good Dinosaur
2015
as Butch (voice)
An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.

Digging for Fire
2015
as Pop Pop
Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hills is complicated by Tim's discovery of a bone and ...

Grandma
2015
as Karl
Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them ...

I'll See You in My Dreams
2015
as Bill
A sudden loss disrupts Carol’s orderly life, propelling her into the dating world for the first time in 20 years. Finally living in the present tense,...

Draft Day
2014
as Coach Moore
At the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to rebuild his team when he trades for the number one pick. He must decide what he'...

Milius
2013
as Self
The life story of ‘Zen Anarchist’ filmmaker John Milius, one of the most influential storytellers of his generation.

The Company You Keep
2012
as Mac McLeod
A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.

November Christmas
2011
as Jess Sanford
A young father asks for pumpkins at the local farm stand. "In August? No." the farmer replies. The farmer ruminates on the odd request and gets involv...

The Big Bang
2011
as Simon Kestral
A private detective is hired to find a missing stripper but the job turns complicated when everyone he questions ends up dead. From the mean streets o...

Marmaduke
2010
as Chupadogra (voice)
When Phil and Debbie Winslow relocate from their native Kansas to the sunny climes of Orange County, their big-hearted, havoc-wreaking Great Dane gets...

Did You Hear About the Morgans?
2009
as Clay Wheeler
New Yorkers Paul and Meryl Morgan seem to have it all -- except that their marriage is crumbling around them. But their romantic woes are small compar...

Up in the Air
2009
as Maynard Finch
Corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham spends his life in planes, airports, and hotels, but just as he’s about to reach a milestone of ten million f...

The Golden Compass
2007
as Lee Scoresby
After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherwor...

Ghost Rider
2007
as Carter Slade / Phantom Rider
In order to save his dying father, young stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze sells his soul to Mephistopheles and sadly parts from the pure-hearted Roxanne Sim...

Barnyard
2006
as Ben the Cow (voice)
When the farmer's away, all the animals play, and sing, and dance. Eventually, though, someone has to step in and run things, a responsibility that en...

Avenger
2006
as Calvin Dexter
After his own daughter was killed in Panama in 1994, former CIA agent Calvin Dexter became a private 'specialist' in cases which wouldn't reach justic...

The Alibi
2006
as The Mormon
Con man Ray Elliot decides to leave crime behind to start a company that sells fake alibis to clients who have been unfaithful to their significant ot...

Thank You for Smoking
2005
as Lorne Lutch
Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remai...

Off the Map
2003
as Charley
An 11-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries and comes to te...

Hulk
2003
as Ross
Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers massive radiation exposure in his laboratory that causes him to transform into a ragin...

We Were Soldiers
2002
as Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.

Pretty When You Cry
2001
as Detective Lukas Black
A wife is caught in a web of sex and violence.

The Contender
2000
as Kermit Newman
The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival. W...

Fail Safe
2000
as Congressman Raskob
Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.

You Know My Name
1999
as Bill Tilghman
In six months, the population of Cromwell, Oklahoma, has climbed from 500 to 10,000. Boom times have come to the oil-rich town. So has a new breed of ...

The Hi-Lo Country
1998
as Jim Ed Love
An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War I...

The Big Lebowski
1998
as The Stranger
Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelc...

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
as Self
Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western.

Woman Undone
1996
as Ross Bishop
When Terri Hansen (Mary McDonnell) emerges from a fiery car crash as a widow, the local sheriff at first believes her account of the accident. But the...

Dog Watch
1996
as Charlie Falon
A San Francisco detective (Elliott) goes wild when he discovers his partner dead and the presumed culprit standing over him. After beating the man to ...

Blue River
1995
as Henry Howland
Edward's father walked out on his family years ago. In the years since, his mother has become a fundamentalist Christian and fallen for the school's s...

The Final Cut
1995
as John Pierce
A former bomb squad leader comes out of retirement to investigate a series of bombings plaguing Seattle.

The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky
1995
as Bill Bell
A young ranger in the Montana wilderness discovers the great forces of nature while learning the importance of honor, trust and integrity. Legendary v...

Buffalo Girls
1995
as Wild Bill Hickok
The bold escapades of tough-talking Calamity Jane Canary and her illustrious cohorts. It's the waning days of the Wild West and Jane, the rough 'n' ru...

The Desperate Trail
1994
as Marshall Bill Speakes
Amiable con man Jack Cooper is on a westbound stagecoach, headed for the next batch of suckers who will mistake him for an easy mark. Fiery Sarah O'Ro...

Tombstone
1993
as Virgil Earp
Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining t...

Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert
1993
as Lyn Cutter
A lady private eye on her first job working a routine divorce case teams up with a cynical, heavy-drinking police detective after inadvertently stumbl...

Gettysburg
1993
as Brig. Gen. John Buford
In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching t...

Rush
1991
as Dodd
Undercover cop Jim Raynor is a seasoned veteran. His partner, Kristen Cates, is lacking in experience, but he thinks she's tough enough to work his ne...

Conagher
1991
as Conn Conagher
Mrs. Evie Teale is struggling to stay alive while raising her two children alone on a remote homestead. Conn Conagher is an honest, hardworking cowboy...

Conagher
1991
Producer, Teleplay
Mrs. Evie Teale is struggling to stay alive while raising her two children alone on a remote homestead. Conn Conagher is an honest, hardworking cowboy...

Sibling Rivalry
1990
as Charles Turner, Jr.
Marjorie Turner is suffocating in her marriage and day to day life. An extramarital affair with a stranger seems to be the answer until her paramour h...

Prancer
1989
as John Riggs
Jessica, the daughter of an impoverished apple farmer, still believes in Santa Claus. So when she comes across a reindeer with an injured leg, it make...

Road House
1989
as Wade Garrett
The Double Deuce is the meanest, loudest and rowdiest bar south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and Dalton has been hired to clean it up. He might not look l...

Shakedown
1988
as Richie Marks
When a local drug dealer shoots a dishonest cop in self-defense, lawyer and renegade undercover cop join forces to clear him. But when their investiga...
The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen
1988
as Self
A follow-up special to ABC's 1987 "The Ultimate Stuntman: A Tribute to Dar Robinson." The program includes clips of great stunts, interviews with cele...

Fatal Beauty
1987
as Mike Marshak
Detective Rita Rizzoli is accustomed to donning costumes and going undercover to nail crooks. But she'll be required to use all of her get-ups and mor...

The Quick and the Dead
1987
as Con Villian
In 1876 Wyoming, the gun is the only law. And for Duncan and Suzanna McKaskel, newly arrived settlers beset by outlaws, rugged frontiersman Con Vallia...

Houston: The Legend of Texas
1986
as Sam Houston
Sam Elliot stars as Sam Houston, the visionary who nearly single-handedly forged the state of Texas into a powerful entity in its own right. Refusing ...

The Blue Lightning
1986
as Harry Wingate
Harry Wingate, a rugged adventurer, is hired by a gem collector to retrieve a priceless opal, known as "The Blue Lightning," from Lester McInally, a s...

Mask
1985
as Gar
A boy with a massive facial skull deformity and his biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.

Travis McGee
1983
as Travis McGee
Travis McGee is a world-weary private eye trying to help boat skipper friend Van Harder salvage his reputation that sank when his boat ran aground, re...

The Shadow Riders
1982
as Dal Traven
After starring in "The Sacketts", Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott team up again but this time as Mac and Dal Traven, in a movie based on a classic Louis L...

The Legacy
1978
as Pete Danner
A couple attempts to unravel a sinister plot within the English countryside estate of a dying man who has gathered an eclectic and notable group of ho...

Lifeguard
1976
as Rick Carlson
Rick is a Los Angeles County lifeguard who is in his thirties. At his 15-year high school reunion, he sees his old girlfriend who is now a divorced mo...

I Will Fight No More Forever
1975
as Captain Wood
Pursued by 2,000 US soldiers and cavalry, Chief Joseph leads his tribe of 800 Nez Perce on a 1,700 mile journey across the West and towards Canada. Ba...
Evel Knievel
1974
as Evel Knievel
Pilot for an adventure/comedy series starring Sam Elliott as the title character and Gary Barton as his sidekick. In the pilot Evel Knievel must compe...

The Blue Knight
1973
as Detective Charlie Bronski
Bumper Morgan is a veteran Los Angeles Police Department street cop. He is due to retire after 20 years on the job, but is not letting up on the crimi...

Molly and Lawless John
1972
as Johnny Lawler
Molly, the shy, romance-starved wife of an arrogant frontier sheriff, finds herself drawn to a prisoner in her husband's jail. This prisoner, a handso...

Frogs
1972
as Pickett Smith
Jason Crockett is an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Pickett ...

Assault on the Wayne
1971
as Ens. William 'Bill' Sandover
The U.S. submarine Anthony Wayne is underway for a top-secret mission. Onboard is a highly classified device that will give the Americans a decided nu...

The Games
1970
as Richie Robinson
From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They are the most superbly conditioned animals in the wor...

The Challenge
1970
as Bryant
All-out war between the United States and an Asian country is averted when the two sides agree to settle their differences by each choosing a single s...

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969
as Card Player #2
As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in ho...

The Way West
1967
as Missouri Townsman (uncredited)
In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock...

Grendel
N/A
as The Dragon
The tale of the legendary monster at the heart of the Beowulf epic poem who steps forth to tell his side of the riveting story.