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JULY/AUGUST 2016

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The real Sam Elliott preferred taking on challenging,
supporting roles, like starring opposite Cher and Eric Stoltz
in Mask, a drama based on the true story of Rocky Dennis,
a boy who suffered from craniodiaphyseal dysplasia. Three
years later, Elliott was in 1989’s Road House, playing
the mentor to Patrick Swayze’s James Dalton, a bouncer
with a mysterious past. With that being said, his most
beloved role may have been his performance as The
Stranger in the cult classic The Big Lebowski (1998).
Elliott shines portraying Western heroes and outlaws.
Over the course of his career, he played wrangling
cowboys in television and films including The Quick and
the Dead (1987), Houston: The Legend of Texas (1986),
Tombstone (1993), and You Know My Name (1999). In
2007, he was even inducted into the National Cowboy
& Western Heritage Museum––a well deserved honor.

As quoted on biography.
com, Elliott has said of
his penchant for westerns:
“I think it has something
to do with integrity and
a man’s word and honor
and all that kind of stuff––
values, morality, all that
kind of stuff that

everybody looks
kind of down their
noses at.

As quoted on biography.com, Elliott has said of his
penchant for westerns: “I think it has something to do
with integrity and a man’s word and honor and all
that kind of stuff––values, morality, all that kind of stuff
that everybody looks kind of down their noses at.”
In 2005, Elliott appeared in Thank You for Smoking, as

FROM LEFT: Executive Producer
Don Reo, Danny Masterson,
Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted
Sarandos, Sam Elliott, Debra
Winger, Ashton Kutcher and Executive Producer Jim Patterson
seen at a special screening of
Netflix original series The Ranch
at Arclight Hollywood on March
28, 2016, in Los Angeles.

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