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  • Elliott slams church over The Golden Compass sequels - 15 December 2009
    -American actor Sam Elliott has accused the Roman Catholic Church of scaring Hollywood producers into shelving the two planned sequels to hit movie The Golden Compass.- -The film, which starred Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, was the first of author Philip Pullman's

Sam Elliott - what members say


  • Fatal Beauty
  • Fatal Beauty review by A customer from Leicestershire
    Rated - 5.0 stars Fatal Beauty 15 February 2007
    ...The sound of Sam Elliott's voice gives me the tingles. The sexiest voice I have ever heard. The film is not bad either. ...   Read customer review
  • Barnyard
  • Barnyard review by A customer from Milton Keynes :-)
    Rated - 3.0 stars A good film ruined 30 March 2007
    ...Daisy the Cow (pregnant newcomer) - Courteney Cox Ben the Cow (Otis' father) - Sam Elliott Well the boys ain't cows people - they're BULLS and they DON'T HAVE UDDERS ...   Read customer review
  • The Golden Compass
  • The Golden Compass review by A customer from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars Magic is back this Christmas 10 December 2007
    ...ets a host of characters, from Texan aeronaut Lee Scoresby (perfectly played by Sam Elliott), the witch Serafina Pekkala, to the giant talking polar bear Iorek Byrnison. ...   Read customer review

Sam Elliott - filmography


  • The Big Bang on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Antonio Banderas,  Sienna Guillory,  Autumn Reeser
    Director: Tony Krantz
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Late one night, Los Angeles private investigator, Ned Cruz (Antonio Banderas) gets a visit from a recently paroled Russian boxer with an intriguing job offer: find Lexie, his missing girlfriend and the 30-million dollar stash of diamonds she's hiding.... Read More... As Detective Cruz sets out to ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 331 members
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  • The Big Bang - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Antonio Banderas,  Sienna Guillory,  Autumn Reeser
    Director: Tony Krantz
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Late one night, Los Angeles private investigator, Ned Cruz (Antonio Banderas) gets a visit from a recently paroled Russian boxer with an intriguing job offer: find Lexie, his missing girlfriend and the 30-million dollar stash of diamonds she's hiding.... Read More... As Detective Cruz sets out to ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 349 members
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  • Marmaduke on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Owen Wilson,  Emma Stone,  George Lopez
    Director: Tom Dey
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A suburban family moves to a new neighbourhood with their large yet lovable Great Dane, who has a tendency to wreak havoc in his own oblivious way. Big screen adaptation of the comic strip "Marmaduke".
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 7,602 members
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  • Marmaduke - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Owen Wilson,  Emma Stone,  George Lopez
    Director: Tom Dey
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A suburban family moves to a new neighborhood with their large yet lovable Great Dane, who has a tendency to wreak havoc in his own oblivious way. Big screen adaptation of the comic strip "Marmaduke".
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 78 members
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  • Ghost Rider - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Peter Fonda,  Gibson Nolte,  Brett Cullen
    Director: Mark Steven Johnson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Extended version of this action fantasy starring Nicolas Cage. In order to save his dying father, young stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze (Cage) sells his soul to Mephistopheles (Peter Fonda) and sadly parts from the pure-hearted Roxanne Simpson (Eva Mendes), the love of his life. Years later, Johnny's ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 4,514 members
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  • Ghost Rider on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Donal Logue,  Gibson Nolte,  Peter Fonda
    Director: Mark Steven Johnson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on the Marvel character, stunt motorcyclist Johnny Blaze gives up his soul to become a hellblazing vigilante, to fight against power hungry Blackheart, the son of the devil himself.
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 48,133 members
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  • The Alibi on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Steve Coogan,  Jon Polito,  Jerry O'Connell
    Director: Matt Checkowski,  Kurt Mattila
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Comedy starring Steve Coogan. Ray (Coogan) runs an alibi service for men and women who want to spend a little quality time away from their so-called loved ones. Unfortunately, Ray gets into a jam with a new client (James Marsden) who strangles his date. With the help of Lola (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos),..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 7,304 members
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  • Barnyard on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Danny Glover,  Kevin James,  Andie MacDowell
    Director: Steve Oedekerk
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Animated feature starring farm animals that come to life when the farmer's not around. Otis is a young, free and rowdy cow who lives a carefree life, hangin with his homeys, taking the odd drink, having a dance, getting with the honeys and playing fly tricks on humans. His father, Ben, the wizened ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 13,907 members
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  • Thank You For Smoking on DVD (2005)
    Starring: William H. Macy,  Katie Holmes,  J.K. Simmons
    Director: Jason Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Nick Naylor, chief spokesman for Big Tobacco, makes his living defending the rights of smokers and cigarette makers in today's neo-puritanical culture. Confronted by health zealots out to ban tobacco and an opportunistic senator who wants to put poison labels on cigarette packs, Nick goes on a PR ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 43,248 members
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  • Hulk on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Josh Lucas,  Brooke Langton,  Sam Elliott
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    THE HULK, adapted by Ang Lee (CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON) from the Marvel comic book series, stars Eric Bana as Bruce Banner, the tormented scientist whose temper periodically transforms him into a raging green monster. Fellow scientist and Hulk-love-interest Betty Ross (Jennifer Connelly), ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 23,210 members
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  • Hulk - Blu-ray (2003)
    Starring: Josh Lucas,  Brooke Langton,  Sam Elliott
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Ang Lee ('Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon') directs this special-effects (CGI), blockbuster adaptation of the Marvel comic character. Dr. Bruce Banner (Eric Bana) is working in the research department of the University of California when he is accidentally hit by one of his experimental rays. This ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 2,412 members
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  • We Were Soldiers on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Mel Gibson,  Madeline Stowe,  Greg Kinnear
    Director: Randall Wallace
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Mel Gibson stars as Colonel Hal Moore in this big budget war movie telling the true story of the Battle of Landing Zone X-Ray. The year is 1965 and Colonel Moore's men arrive in the highlands of South Vietnam ready to carry out a search-and-destroy mission. But thanks to a fault in military ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 11,536 members
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  • The Contender on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Philip Baker Hall,  Sam Elliott,  Christian Slater
    Director: Rod Lurie
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    White House drama about the behind-the-scenes conflicts involved in the appointment of a new vice-president. When the old vice-president dies, President Jackson Evans (Jeff Bridges) choses Senator Laine Hanson (Joan Allen) as his successor, thereby making her the first woman ever to occupy the post...read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,589 member
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  • Fail Safe on DVD (2000)
    Starring: John Diehl,  Richard Dreyfuss,  Harvey Keitel
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    With the Cold War at its height, US bomber pilot Colonel Jack Grady (George Clooney) is accidentally commanded to drop a nuclear warhead over Russia. As Grady continues on his mission - insisting despite frantic verbal commands to the contrary that he has passed the 'fail safe' point of no return - ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,418 member
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  • The Hi-Lo Country (1998)
    Starring: Billy Crudup,  Woody Harrelson,  Cole Hauser
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Just after World War II best friends Big Boy Matson (Woody Harrelson) and Pete Calder (Billy Crudup) return home to find half of their town employed by cattle baron Jim Ed Love (Sam Elliott). Hanging on to the mythic ideals of the American West Big Boy and Pete team up with an old time rancher ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 6 members
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  • Dogwatch on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Paul Sorvino,  Sam Elliott,  Charlie Fallon
    Director: John Langley
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Tough cop Charlie Falon's (Sam Elliot) shoot first, ask questions later approach has landed him in trouble with his superiors on the beat in New York City on more than one occasion, and after gunning down a criminal in cold blood he needs to lie low. However, after seeing his partner brutally ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 84 members
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  • The Final Cut on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Ray Baker,  Anne Ramsey,  Sam Elliott
    Director: Roger Christian
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Seattle is under siege from a mad bomber who is targeting civilians and bomb disposal teams. With apartment blocks and office buildings collapsing, something must be done. Ex-Bomb Squad man John Pierce is one of the few men qualified to pit his wits against the terrorist, but there is one problem: ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 362 members
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  • Buffalo Girls on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Melanie Griffith,  Jack Palance,  Reba McEntire
    Director: Rod Hardy
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Emmy-winning, star-studded television movie looking at the legend of Calamity Jane (Anjelica Huston), the hard-living, bull-whip cracking heorine of the American West. She teamed up with some of the great female legends of the West as well as starred in Buffalo Bill's (Peter Coyote) Wild West Show ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 174 members
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  • The Desperate Trail on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Sam Elliott,  Craig Sheffer,  Linda Fiorentino
    Director: P.J. Pesce
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Linda Fiorentino stars in this western as a woman about to be hanged by Marshall Speaks. On the way to the gallows she escapes but then she is held up by a charming con-man played by Craig Sheffer. However, it's not long before the pair buddy up and set about doing a bank job. But Speaks is on ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 166 members
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  • Tombstone on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Step,  Val Kilmer,  Kurt Russell
    Director: George Pan Cosmatos
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    George P. Cosmatos directs this Western starring Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer. Hoping for a more prosperous lifestyle, retired lawman Wyatt Earp (Russell) moves to Tombstone, Arizona, where he meets up with his friend Doc Holliday (Kilmer). The duo, along with Earp's brothers, soon incur the wrath ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 7,998 members
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  • Rush on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Max Perlich,  Jennifer Jason Leigh,  William Sadler
    Director: Lili Fini Zanuck
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    It is 1975 and young policewoman Kristen Cates (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is partnered with veteran cop Jim Raynor (Jason Patric) to catch a big-time drug dealer. Going undercover, they are both forced to use drugs in order to be convincing and gain trust, but they become increasingly dependent, while ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 473 members
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  • Conagher on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Katharine Ross,  Sam Elliott
    Director: Reynaldo Villalobos
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Made-for-television Western. A widow (Katharine Ross), who is raising her two children and managing a stagecoach station, falls for a cowboy (Sam Elliot) passing through her station. The battered cattle-puncher has to choose between the open range and the love of a good woman.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 223 members
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  • Sibling Rivalry on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Bill Pullman,  Scott Bakula,  Sam Elliott
    Director: Carl Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    An unhappily married woman (Kirstie Alley) has sex with a perfect stranger in a hotel room. When the stranger dies of a heart attack, she flees, leaving her wallet. A venetian blinds salesman stumbles into the room and mistakenly thinks he's killed the man. He contacts Alley, who, as if she hasn't ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 250 members
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  • Road House on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Ben Gazzara,  Kelly Lynch,  Sam Elliott
    Director: Rowdy Herrington
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Philosophy student Dalton (Patrick Swayze) is hired as a bouncer to clean up the rowdy road house 'Double Deuce'. Being a man of ideas, he at first tries to solve problems without resorting to violence, his formidable reputation doing much of the work for him. However, he has not reckoned on the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 5,606 members
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  • Prancer on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Michael Constantine,  Abe Vigoda,  Sam Elliott
    Director: John Hancock
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    One week before Christmas, nine-year-old Jessie (Rebecca Harrell) discovers an injured reindeer in the woods near her home. She decides to nurse the animal back to health, despite the fact that her father is opposed to the idea. Over the next week, Jessie becomes convinced that her new friend is in ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 307 members
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  • Blue Jean Cop on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Peter Weller,  Antonio Fargas,  Patricia Charbonneau
    Director: James Glickenhaus
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Blue Jean Cop A tough Manhattan Legal Aid Attorney is about to move up to a comfortable and well-paid job on Wall Street. His last assignment is to defend a black drugs dealer who has shot dead an undercover cop in Central Park. The dealer insists he fired in self-defence, and the attorney must ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 230 members
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  • Fatal Beauty on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Whoopi Goldberg,  Sam Elliott
    Director: Tom Holland
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Tough, wise-cracking narcotics cop Rita Rizzoli (Whoopi Goldberg) goes on the trail of some poisoned cocaine, nicknamed 'Fatal Beauty', which has found its way onto the streets of Los Angeles. She finds an ally in bodyguard Nike Marshak (Sam Elliott), who has connections with a local businessman ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 589 members
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  • Mask on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Lawrence Monoson,  Todd Allen,  Ben Piazza
    Director: Peter Bogdanovich
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This is the true story of Rocky Dennis (Eric Stoltz), a personable young man suffering from lionitis, a fatal disease which causes hideous facial disfigurement. The son of freewheeling biker Rusty Dennis (Cher), Rocky is accepted without question by his mom's boyfriends and cycle buddies, but ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,348 members
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  • The Shadow Riders (1982)
    Starring: Tom Selleck,  Sam Elliott,  Ben Johnson
    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Based on the story by Louis L'Amour of two brothers, a yank and a rebel, who return home from the Civil War to find their sisters have kidnapped by white slavers. They bust their scoundrel of an uncle from jail and set out to rescue them.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 4 members
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  • The Legacy on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Ian Hogg,  Roger Daltrey,  Charles Gray
    Director: Richard Marquand
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    An American designer goes to stay with her employer and finds the country house full of guests who have gathered to discover which one of them is to inherit a satanic legacy. One by one the list of potential candidates gets shorter, as the group come to a variety of grisly ends.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 148 members
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  • Frogs on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Joan Van Ark,  Sam Elliott,  Adam Roarke
    Director: George McCowan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Horror starring Ray Milland as an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Sam Elliot plays a free-lance photographer who is doing a pollution layout for an ecology magazine. Jason Crokett (Milland) hates nature, ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 158 members
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  • Mission: Impossible - Series 5 (6 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Lesley Warren,  Greg Morris,  Peter Graves
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    All 23 episodes from the fifth season of the popular adventure series concerning the IMF (Impossible Mission Force), a team of secret agents working for the US government. A typical episode saw the team listening to a recorded message on a reel to reel tape player outlining their mission before ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 56 members
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Sam Elliott facts

5 most recent films

The Company You Keep - 3.0 stars
The Big Bang - 2.5 stars
The Big Bang - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars
Marmaduke - 3.5 stars
Marmaduke - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Tombstone - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Mission: Impossible - Series 5 - 3.5 stars
We Were Soldiers - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Tombstone - 3.5 stars
Mask - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Shadow Riders - 3.0 stars
The Hi-Lo Country - 3.0 stars
The Company You Keep - 3.0 stars
Mission: Impossible - Series 6 - 3.5 stars
Dogwatch - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Peter Graves - 14 times - show films
Leonard Nimoy - 14 times - show films
Peter Lupus - 14 times - show films
Greg Morris - 14 times - show films
Lesley Warren - 14 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Marvin J. Chomsky - 7 times - show films
Reza Badiyi - 7 times - show films
none - 7 times - show films
Paul Krasny - 7 times - show films
Chris Weitz - 3 times - show films