Sam Elliott


People in here are talking as tho Selleck is the greatest current portrayer of a cowboy. Permit me to draw to their attention--Sam Elliott. Elliott naturally has the laconic way of moving for a cowpoke & doesn't have to 'do' a voice--like Selleck does. Elliott naturally has the slow, deep drawl of a Texan. Both his parents were from Texas, tho he was born in California.
They've played brothers in 2 TV films--'the Sacketts' & 'the Shadow Riders'. They have both independently starred in adaptions of Louis L'amour books.
Not knocking Selleck, in any way. I LOVE him in westerns. LOVED 'Quigley'!
I just want to say that Elliott, in my opinion, is the more natural purveyor of the cowboy mystique. To be fair to Selleck--Elliott doesn't play a modern man as well as Selleck.

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I have to disagree. I think that Selleck is a more versatile and well rounded actor than Elliot. Selleck is as tough as Elliot, plus he's better at comedy in my opinion. Sam Elliot may be a more authentic Texan, but that doesn't make him the best cowboy any more than Tommy Lee Jones makes a better cowboy than John Wayne. Sam Elliot is very much a one-role sort of an actor. He always plays the hard, tough, quiet but deadly sort of a character in ALMOST every thing I've seen him in. I'd compare him more to Clint Eastwood in that regard, who is good in the roles he plays but does not have the versatility of an actor like Selleck.


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I agree that Selleck offers more variety. Selleck IS better @ comedy. He's a very modern actor stuck in a hunk's body. I love Selleck. Don't get me wrong.
That doesn't mean that he's BETTER @ cowboys than Elliott. The one thing Elliott does--he's unsurpassed---even by Eastwood--in my opinion. You'll see Elliott playing the tender side of the cowpoke. Eastwood doesn't.
Plus--Elliott doesn't HAVE to try to sound manly. He can't help it. That's why Chevrolet is having him do the "Like a rock.." commercials, since Coburn died. They pay for his 'voice'--nothing else.
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Selleck also has his own voice acting work--one of them is for the orange juice industry, the other I can't remember at the moment. But Selleck, like Elliott, has a wonderful and distinctive voice. Plus, they both wear such dammed good mustaches.

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I enjoy Selleck and Elliott almost equally in their respective projects. I just wish they would do another western together. The way they play off of each other really brings character to the westerns they have previously sharded!

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They ARE a great 'brother act'.

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Selleck 'does' a voice?? not sure about that one...

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Well--when Magnum was on, I heard several times, that his voice didn't fit his presence. Selleck even addressed it once, saying that people complained about his 'Wally Cleaver' voice, but that they'd never heard his 'Vic Virile' voice.

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oh i see, for Magnum...b/c i just watched a couple interviews after watching a couple of his westerns and there wasn't a difference. only difference i noticed was when he yells his voice is deeper but everyone does that so they don't strain their throat...

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and he's smoked since Magnum which drops the voice anyway...

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Really? He's a smoker now? when did that start?

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not now i don't think but he's been smoking between magnum and monte walsh im pretty sure...

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Selleck's been a cigar smoker for years. As far as Selleck vs Elliott...well I don't care which does a western, we need more of them.
I'd compare Selleck's 'Monte Walsh' with Elliott's 'Conager.' Both excellent movies.

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Elliott would've been miscast as Monte Walsh. And as Matthew Quigley. Both actors are very good at playing their own kind of Western characters.

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I was just about to compare Conagher to Monte Walsh.

When you said Selleck's a 'smoker', I thought you meant cigarettes. Does cigar smoking affect your voice, too, since one doesn't inhale cigar smoke?

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Let me say I LOVE SAM ELLIOT. However I think Tom is far more believable. Sam sounds like he is the one using a fake voice. A better way to put it would be that the voice is all his but he really milks it. Listen to him talk in the Big Lebowski, that is about the cheesiest he gets, reminds me of Kris Kristofferson and his gag-me macho-man voice. Sam looks a lot more authentic to me than Tom but Tom beats out most men in the good looks department hands-down. Ah hell - I love 'em both!



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Remember that Lebowski is a comedy.
I live in Texas & there are LOTS of people here, who sound like Sam. Sam sounded like that, as the Sgt Major, in We Were Soldiers.
Kris is also a Texan. His voice has gotten raspier, as he's aged. His has never had the resonance of Sam's.
Sam can't do accents. He'd not be believable, in Blue Bloods, although Tom doesn't do an accent, for it. Tom has a more midwestern accent, though. He did no accent, in Quigley, either, as I recall.
I remember when Joe Don Baker, from Waxahachie, Tx, played the NYC Chief of Detectives, in 'Eischeid'.

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Either one of them could eat crackers in my bed.

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ROFL!

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Why not both? Rather than choose between them, avoid slighting either one by having a nice little threesome. I'd go for it with two attractive female stars in a New York minute, I can tell you!!!

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