Samuel Park Elliott is an American actor, screenwriter and producer. Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy, Screen Actors Guild nominee who began his successful career in 1969 with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Mission Impossible. Most often, the actor could be seen in the westerns popular in those years, and his business card was a cowboy hat and a chic mustache.
During his creative career, Elliott starred in almost a hundred films, and also acted as a screenwriter and producer of the film "Conagher". In addition, the actor was repeatedly engaged in the scoring of commercials and cartoons. In 2018, for his role as Bobby in the acclaimed musical film A Star is Born, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards, AASTA, Critics' Choice, Sputnik, Screen Actors Guild of the USA, National Council critics of the United States.
The beginning of the biography
Sam was born in the summer of 1944 in the United States. His father worked for the Wildlife Service, and his mother was a physical education teacher and sports coach. The family lived in California, and when Sam was thirteen years old, they moved to Oregon.
After graduating from high school, the young man entered the university, where he was going to study English and psychology. A year later, Sam realized that his chosen profession did not satisfy him and that his studies did not bring any joy. Therefore, he leaves the university and goes to college in Vancouver, where he first appears on stage in student performances. Soon he manages to play a small role in the film "Guys and Dolls" and from that moment Sam decides to devote his entire future life to creativity and cinema.
Parents did not support the choice of their son and tried in every possible way to persuade him to change his decision, but Sam was firmly convinced that cinema was his destiny. After the unexpected death of his father, the young man went to Los Angeles, where he entered acting courses and began working at a construction site to provide himself with housing and food. Soon Sam was drafted into the army, and only after returning from service began his real film career.
Cinema
Elliott's appearance was very suitable for the popular Westerns of the 60s. Tall, with a sophisticated face, athletic, thin, with a huge shock of blond curly hair on his head, he looked great on the screen. In addition, Sam was good in the saddle, which was very important for Western films.
Sam made his debut role in a big movie in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and although he only played in a small episode, the actor was noticed and soon invited to shoot the series Mission: Impossible.
Elliott's great success came only seven years later. First, he gets one of the main roles in the TV series "Former Eagle", and then the main role in the movie "The Rescuer". After the successful distribution of the picture, the actor began to receive invitations to new projects.
Most of Sam's next works are Westerns. He created a beautiful and recognizable image of a mustachioed cowboy in a wide-brimmed hat, by which the audience began to recognize Elliott. His films include Murder in Texas, The Mask, Death in California, Roadside Diner. For his role in the TV series Girls from the Wild West, the actor was nominated for the Golden Globe and Emmy Awards.
In the late 80s, Sam began to try himself as a producer and was engaged in dubbing commercials, having signed a contract with Toyota. Then he works on the dubbing of the cartoons "Robot Chicken", "Horns and Hooves", "The Good Dinosaur".
In the film "Conagher" Sam plays several roles at once: an actor, a screenwriter and a producer. The film was well received by the audience and appreciated by critics, and Elliott himself was nominated for a Golden Globe.
Today the actor has already turned 74 years old, but he continues his creative biography. His role in the 2018 film A Star is Born was highly acclaimed by film critics, and Elliott was nominated for an Oscar.
Personal life
With his future wife, actress Katharine Ross, Sam began dating back in 1978. Despite the fact that Katherine was married at that time, this did not become a hindrance to a whirlwind romance. Five years later, Sam and Catherine became husband and wife. The family had a daughter, Cleo.
Parents have a very difficult relationship with their daughter. Problems began back in the days when Cleo was a teenager and her parents could not find a common language with her. Today, the daughter is deprived of the opportunity to see her parents, by a court decision, which was issued after the mother's statement, where she indicated that her daughter was threatening to kill her.
Sam and Katherine live a secluded life on their own ranch and do not like to share it with either colleagues or fans.
