Sam Elliott filmography

Elliott at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival

The filmography of American actor Sam Elliott includes nearly 100 credits in both film and television. He came to prominence for his portrayal of gruff cowboy characters in Western films and TV series, making early minor appearances in The Way West (1967) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). He went on to appear in several horror films, such as Frogs (1972) and The Legacy (1978), and appeared in various television series. His film breakthrough was the drama Mask (1985), in which he co-starred with Cher. In 1989, he starred in the Christmas movie Prancer , playing a widowed apple farmer whose daughter finds an injured reindeer and tends to it in the belief it is one of Santa's. The 1989 film Road House also featured Elliott.

He would reprise his Western image in 1991's television film Conagher , for which he earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor, followed by his role portraying Virgil Earp in Tombstone (1993). He also appeared in Gettysburg (1993), in which he played Brigadier General John Buford. He earned his second Golden Globe nomination for his supporting portrayal of Wild Bill Hickok in the miniseries Buffalo Girls (1995). He had a small (but crucial) role in the comedy The Big Lebowski (1998), and later had supporting roles in the fantasy The Golden Compass (2007) and the drama Up in the Air (2009).

From 2016 until its ending in 2020, Elliott began portraying Beau Bennett on the Netflix series The Ranch . He subsequently appeared in a supporting role in the musical drama A Star Is Born (2018) directed by and co-starring Bradley Cooper, which earned him a National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor and various nominations, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination and a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role.

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1967	The Way West	Missouri Townsman	Uncredited
1969	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	Card Player #2		[1]
1970	The Games	Richie Robinson		[2]
1972	Frogs	Pickett Smith		[2]
	Molly and Lawless John	Johnny Lawler		[2]
1976	Lifeguard	Rick Carlson		[2]
1978	The Legacy	Pete Danner		[2]
1985	Mask	Gar		[2]
1986	The Blue Lightning	Harold "Harry" Wingate
1987	Fatal Beauty	Mike Marshak		[2]
1988	Shakedown	Detective Richie Marks		[2]
1989	Road House	Wade Garrett		[2]
	Prancer	John Riggs		[2]
1990	Sibling Rivalry	Charles Turner Jr.		[2]
1991	Rush	Larry Dodd		[2]
1993	Tombstone	Virgil Earp		[2]
	Gettysburg	Brigadier General John Buford		[2]
1995	Blue River	Henry Howland		[1]
	The Final Cut	John Pierce		[1]
1996	Dogwatch	Charlie Falon		[1]
	Adventures of Mowgli	Kaa	English voice	[1]
1998	The Big Lebowski	The Stranger		[1]
	The Hi-Lo Country	Jim Ed Love		[1]
2000	The Contender	Kermit Newman		[1]
2002	We Were Soldiers	Sergeant Major Basil L. Plumley		[2]
2003	Hulk	General Thaddeus Ross		[2]
	Off the Map	Charley Groden		[2]
2005	Thank You for Smoking	Lorne Lutch		[2]
2006	Barnyard	Ben (voice)	Also sung "I Won’t Back Down"	[2]
	The Alibi	The Mormon		[2]
2007	Ghost Rider	The Caretaker / Carter Slade / Phantom Rider		[2]
	The Golden Compass	Lee Scoresby		[2]
2009	Did You Hear About the Morgans?	Clay Wheeler		[2]
	Up in the Air	Captain Maynard Finch		[2]
2010	Marmaduke	Chupadogra / Buster (voice)		[1]
2011	The Big Bang	Simon Kestral
2012	The Company You Keep	'Mac' McLeod		[2]
2014	Draft Day	Coach Moore		[2]
2015	I'll See You in My Dreams	Bill
	Grandma	Karl		[1]
	The Good Dinosaur	Butch (voice)		[1]
2017	Rock Dog	Fleetwood Yak (voice)		[1]
	The Hero	Lee Hayden
	Audubon	Narrator (voice)
2018	The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot	Calvin Barr		[3]
	A Star Is Born	Bobby Maine		[4]
2019	Lady and the Tramp	Trusty (voice)		[5]
2025	The Gettysburg Address	Ward Hill Lamon (voice)

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1968–1969	Felony Squad	Numerous	3 episodes
1969	Land of the Giants	Martin Reed	Episode: "Six Hours to Live"
	The F.B.I.	SAC Kendall Lisbon	Episode: "The Prey"
	Judd, for the Defense	Dan Kenyon	Episode: "The Crystal Maze"
1969–1970	Lancer	Renslo / Canopus / Cowboy	3 episodes	[6]
1970	The Challenge	Bryant	Television film
1970–1971	Mission: Impossible	Dr. Douglas Robert (Lang)	13 episodes	[6]
1971	Assault on the Wayne	Ensign Bill Sandover	Television film
1972	Gunsmoke	Cory Soames	Episode: "The Wedding"	[1]
	The Mod Squad	Rick Price	Episode: "Good Times Are Just Memories"	[6]
	Molly and Lawless John	Johnny Lawler	Television film
1973	The Blue Knight	Detective Charlie Bronski	Television film
	Mannix	Bill Saunders	Episode: "Little Girl Lost"	[6]
	Hawkins	Luther Wilkes	Episode: "Die Die, Darling"
1974	Doc Elliot	Lee Barrows	Episode: "A Time to Live"
	Hawaii Five-O	Jack Houston	Episode: "The Two-Faced Corpse"
	Evel Knievel	Evel Knievel	Television film
	The Manhunter	Will Gantry	Episode: "The Ma Gantry Gang"
	The Streets of San Francisco	Ken Johnson	Episode: "The Hard Breed"	[1]
1975	Police Woman	Michael Gregory	Episode: "Farewell, Mary Jane"
	I Will Fight No More Forever	Captain Wood	Television film
1976–1977	Once an Eagle	Sam Damon	Miniseries; main role	[1]
1977	Aspen	Tom Keating	Television film	[1]
1979	The Sacketts	Tell Sackett	Television film	[1]
1980	Wild Times	Hugh Cardiff	2 episodes	[1]
1981	Murder in Texas	Dr. John Hill	Television film	[7]
1982	The Shadow Riders	Dal Traven	Television film
	The Yellow Rose	Chance McKenzie	Main role	[1]
1984	Travis McGee	Travis McGee	Television film
1985	A Death in California	D. Jordan Williams	2 episodes
1987	Gone to Texas	Sam Houston	Television film; also producer
	The Quick and the Dead	Con Vallian	Television film
1988	The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen	Himself	Documentary
1991	Conagher	Conn Conagher	Television film; also writer and producer	[8]
1992	Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert	Lyn Cutter	Television film
1994	The Desperate Trail	Bill Speakes	Television film	[1]
1995	The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky	Bill Bell	Television film
	Buffalo Girls	Bill 'Wild Bill' Hickok	Television film	[1]
	Blue River	Henry Howland	Television film
	The Way West	(voice)	Documentary
	Woman Undone	Ross Bishop	Television film
1997	Rough Riders	Captain 'Bucky' O'Neill	Television film
	Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western	Himself	Documentary
1998	Texarkana	—N/a	Television film
1999	You Know My Name	Bill Tilghman	Television film; also producer
2000	Fail Safe	Congressman Raskob	Television film
2001	Pretty When You Cry	Detective Lukas Black	Television film
2002–2007	American Bikers	Joel Baldwin (voice)	Main role
2003	Hulk: The Lowdown	Himself (co-host)	Documentary
2006	Avenger	Calvin Dexter	Television film
2010	November Christmas	Jesse 'Jess' Sanford	Television film
2012, 2020	Robot Chicken	Himself / White Wine Narrator / Skito / Reporter (voices)	2 episodes	[1]
2013–2015	Parks and Recreation	Ron Dunn	3 episodes	[1]
2015	Justified	Avery Markham	Main role (season 6)	[1]
2016–2020	The Ranch	Beau Bennett	Main role; also producer	[1]
2016	American Dad!	John 'Big John' Tanner (voice)	Episode: "Kiss Kiss Cam Cam"
	Grace and Frankie	Phil Milstein	4 episodes
2019–present	Family Guy	Wild West / Himself (voices)	21 episodes
2021–2022	1883	Shea Brennan	Main role
2021	MacGruber	Perry	4 episodes
2025	Landman	T.L. Norris	Main Role (Season 2)	[9]

See also

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Sam Elliott

External links

• Sam Elliott at IMDb

References

1. "Sam Elliott Credits". TV Guide . Archived from the original on March 24, 2018.
2. "Sam Elliott Filmography". AFI Catalog of Feature Films . Los Angeles, California: American Film Institute. Archived from the original on December 15, 2018.
3. Amanda N'Duka (August 9, 2017). "Ron Livingston Joins 'The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot'". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved August 9, 2017.
4. Mallenbaum, Carly (September 25, 2018). "'A Star is Born': Bradley Cooper's deep Sam Elliott-inspired voice impressed even Elliott". USA Today . Archived from the original on October 8, 2018.
5. "EXCLUSIVE: Sam Elliott Joins Disney's LADY AND THE TRAMP Remake | That Hashtag Show". That Hashtag Show. July 30, 2018. Archived from the original on October 6, 2018. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
6. Parish, James Robert; Terrace, Vincent (1990). The Complete Actors' Television Credits, 1948-1988: Actors (2nd ed.). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. pp. 170–171. ISBN   978-0-810-82204-7.
7. Rettenmund, Matthew (1995). Totally Awesome 80s: A Lexicon of the Music, Videos, Movies, TV Shows, Stars, and Trends of that Decadent Decade. New York: Macmillan. p. 141. ISBN   978-0-312-14436-4.
8. Mills, Bart (June 30, 1991). "Sam Elliott, On The 'Conagher' Trail". Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on September 14, 2015.
9. White, Peter (April 30, 2025). "'Landman': Sam Elliott Joins Taylor Sheridan's Paramount+ Series As Season 2 Regular". Variety. Retrieved May 1, 2025.