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Sam Elliot made Cowboy & Indian magazine’s front cover Nov/Dec for the third time. This one is not too flattering. Gee's we are all getting old. The first two were awesome. 

 

Did you receive your copy yet?

Who the hell is Sam Pack Elliot? The first time I ever saw him was in a movie called Lifeguard 1976. 

 

 In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, he had a very small part. You can find him sitting with the card players at the beginning of the movie. Someone says "When I said you were cheating, I didn't know that you were the Sundance Kid." Sam is at that table.

"Little too much dynamite there Butch?"

"Hell, the fall will probably kill us."   

"Who are those guys?" 

Sam married Etta Place, I mean Katherine Ross, who played Robert Redford's school teacher girlfriend. She was a niece of Katherine Hepburn. 

They actually did not meet on the set. The Cowboy & Indian article says that they live in Oregon and Malibu.

In the movie Tombstone, he played Virgil Earp to Kurt Russell's Wyatt. 

The movie won zero awards but Val Kilmer's portrayal of Doc Holiday is still talked about today. Doc died at the Rapid City Prairie Edge store while on a shopping spree.

The article doesn't mention it, but he is also the voice on the Coors beer commercials. Coors being the most refreshing beer IN THE WORLD.

He also was in Prancer and Road House and one of my favorites, Gettysburg.

He plays John Buford who with his Union calvary was the first unit to arrive at Gettysburg. He was greatly outnumbered by the Rebel infantry but was smart enough to hold the high ground in the first of three days of fierce fighting. One of the reasons he was chosen for the part was because he looked like Buford. Martin Sheen certainly looked like Bobby Lee. Longstreet was Tom Berenger. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was a ringer with Jeff Daniels. Pickett was played by Prince Fielder. Joseph Fuqua played Jeb Stuart. Ted Turner was LT. Colonel Waller Tazeweil Patton. World War II's George Patton's grandfather. Four of the Lt. Colonels’ brothers fought with the South. Waller died from his wounds several weeks after Pickett's Charge. One of the brothers was killed at the wall of Pickett’s Charge. Turner bankrolled the three-hour epic based on the 1974 book The Killer Angels. "If they are angels they surely must be killer angels." Ken Burns, from the great Civil War television series, had the part of General Hancock's aide. Tom Egan and I did not get a part.

In earlier lives Tom Egan and I believe that we fought at Gettysburg.

Could you lend me one of your FICTION books?