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Actor Born: August 9, 1944 in Sacramento, CA Biography: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... Full Biography
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