page_title: Sam Elliott
section_title: Later career
hierarchical_section_title: Sam Elliott / Career / Later career
caption_attribution_description: Cinema Cafe at Sundance 2017, Park City UT
context_page_description: Samuel Pack Elliott is an American actor. His nominations include an Academy Award nomination, two Golden Globe Award nominations and two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He is the recipient of a National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor.
  Elliott is known for his distinctive lanky physique, full mustache, and deep, resonant voice. He began his film career with minor appearances in The Way West and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and guest-starred on television in the Western Gunsmoke and the television films Murder in Texas and The Shadow Riders. His film breakthrough was in the drama Lifeguard. He then appeared in several Louis L'Amour adaptations such as The Quick and the Dead and Conagher, the latter of which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film. He received his second Golden Globe and first Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Buffalo Girls. Other film credits from the early 1990s include as John Buford in the historical drama Gettysburg and as Virgil Earp in the Western Tombstone.
  In the 2000s, Elliott appeared in supporting roles in the drama We Were Soldiers, and the superhero films Hulk, and Ghost Rider.
context_section_description: In 2005, he appeared in Thank You for Smoking as a former Marlboro Man advertisement cowboy who has developed lung cancer. In 2006 he provided the voice for the character Ben the Cow in the animated film Barnyard.
  In 2007, Elliott joined the comic book adaptation Ghost Rider. He played the character Carter Slade. The same year, Elliott appeared in The Golden Compass as the character Lee Scoresby. The film is based on Northern Lights in Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials. Also appearing in the film are Nicole Kidman, Christopher Lee and Daniel Craig.
  In 2009, Elliott had a small role in Up In The Air in which he portrayed the chief pilot of American Airlines. He has appeared three times on Parks and Recreation as Ron Dunn, the Eagleton equivalent of Ron Swanson; Dunn is a hippie, compared to Swanson's staunch survivalist and Libertarian personality. He then provided the voice of Buster (a.k.a. Chupadogra) in the animated film Marmaduke (2010). He had a supporting role in the thriller film The Company You Keep and played a college football coach in 2014's drama film Draft Day.
  In 2015, Elliott appeared opposite Lily Tomlin as a former love interest of a grandmother (Tomlin) attempting to help her pregnant granddaughter in Paul Weitz's comedy Grandma. The same year, he appeared in the romance I'll See You in My Dreams, and had a role in the independent film Digging for Fire. In 2015, he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for best guest performer in a drama for his role in the FX Network's show Justified.
caption: Elliott and Jon Hamm at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival
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