American actor Samuel Pack Elliott was born on August 9, 1944. Along with being nominated for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, he has won other awards, including a National Board of Review Award.

Elliott portrayed Tom Keating in the 1977 miniseries Aspen. He later played an abusive wife-killer in the miniseries Murder in Texas (1981), alongside Farrah Fawcett and his future wife Katharine Ross, and starred in A Death in California with Cheryl Ladd (1985). In 1979, he co-starred with Tom Selleck in the popular miniseries adaptation of Louis L’Amour’s The Sacketts. Elliott and Selleck worked together again in The Shadow Riders, another Louis L’Amour adaptation, in 1982.

Elliott appeared in Mask (1985) alongside Cher, and in the Christmas film Prancer, he played a hard-nosed, rough-around-the-edges but ultimately sympathetic father figure (1989). He has appeared in many TV movies, including Buffalo Girls (1995), in which he played Wild Bill Hickok, and has made guest appearances on shows such as Felony Squad, Gunsmoke, Lancer, and Hawaii Five-O.

He starred in the 1986 television film Gone to Texas, which was based on a biography of Sam Houston. The part gave him the opportunity to portray Houston as a fighter and a man who developed into a skilled political leader; the movie showed his humiliation as governor of Tennessee, his return to his allies in the Cherokee Nation, and his crucial role in the liberation of Texas from Mexico in 1836. In Road House, Elliott portrayed Wade Garrett (1989). Elliott and his wife Katharine Ross portrayed the Conagher characters in the 1991 film adaptation of Louis L’Amour’s book (1991).

Why does Sam Elliot limp?

He has been wearing a surgical shoe and walks with a noticeable limp, which causes him to limp.