We Were Soldiers
He portrayed General John Buford in the 1993 historical drama "Gettysburg", and the same year played Virgil Earp in the Western "Tombstone" (1993). Elliott played The Stranger, a character narrating the story of "The Big Lebowski" (1998). He subsequently co-starred in "We Were Soldiers" (2002), an adaptation of "We Were Soldiers Once… And Young", in which he portrayed Basil L. Plumley. He then played General Thaddeus Ross in the 2003 action film "Hulk".