By Michelle Dumas
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Samuel Pack Elliott (born August 9, 1944) is an American actor. With a career spanning over five decades of film and television, he is recognized for his deep sonorous voice. Elliott has received various accolades, including a Screen Actors Guild Award and a National Board of Review Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.
A graduate of the University of Oregon and Clark College, Elliott began his career with minor roles on screen, making his film debut in the western The Way West (1967). After his first leading film role in the horror Frogs (1972), Elliott gained wider attention with his breakthrough role in the drama Lifeguard (1976). He achieved commercial success with his role in the biopic Mask (1985) and received Golden Globe nominations for starring in Louis L’Amour‘s adaptation of Conagher (1991) and the miniseries Buffalo Girls (1995), the latter of which also earned him his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Throughout the 1990s, he portrayed John Buford in the historical drama Gettysburg (1993), Virgil Earp in the western Tombstone (1993), and the Stranger in the crime comedy The Big Lebowski (1998).
In ensuing decades, Elliott established himself as a character actor, with supporting roles in a number of films, such as the drama We Were Soldiers (2002) and superhero films Hulk (2003) and Ghost Rider (2007). In the 2010s, he had guest starring roles in the FX neo-western series Justified (2015) and the Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie (2016) and subsequently starred in the Netflix sitcom The Ranch (2016–2020). He went on to headline the comedy drama film The Hero (2017) and star opposite Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper in Cooper’s 2018 adaptation of A Star Is Born, for which he received critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His role in the Paramount+ western miniseries 1883 (2021–2022) earned him further praise and a SAG Award.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
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Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Izaak Walton (writer) –
- William Alfred Fowler (physicist) –
- Robert Shaw (actor) –
- Sam Elliott (actor) –
- Jonathan Kellerman (mystery writer) –
- Melanie Griffith (actress) –
- Whitney Houston (singer) –
- Brett Hull (hockey player) –
- Deion Sanders (football player) –
- Gillian Anderson (actress) –
- Thomas Lennon (actor) –
- Dan Levy (writer and actor) –
- Forrest Landis (actor) –
Died
- Herman Hesse (author) –
- Jerry Garcia (musician) –
- Gregory Hines (dancer & actor) –
- Fay Wray (won fame as the damsel held atop the Empire State Building by a giant ape in the 1933 film King Kong) –
- Matthew McGrory (actor) –
- Bernie Mac (comedian & actor) –
- Frank Gifford (NFL Hall of Fame football player) –
Events
- The Webster-Ashburton Treaty was signed, delimiting the eastern section of the Canadian-American border. The treaty established the boundaries between the St. Croix and Connecticut rivers, between Lake Superior and the Lake of the Woods, and between Lakes Huron and Superior–
- Henry David Thoreau published Walden–
- Thomas Edison received a patent for a two-way telegraph–
- Edward VII crowned king of the United Kingdom–
- Lassen Volcanic National Park, California, established–
- Betty Boop premiered in the animated film Dizzy Dishes–
- Jesse Owens stole the limelight by winning four gold medals in track at the Olympic Games in Berlin and became the first American to win four medals in one Olympics–
- Smokey Bear was chosen as a fire prevention symbol. Posters were released by the Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council.–
- The second atomic bomb, Fat Man, was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan–
- Fatal missile silo explosion occurred in Searcy, Arkansas–
- Richard M. Nixon resigned as President of the United States–
- The Edmonton Oilers traded Wayne Gretzky to the L.A. Kings–
- Donald Duck received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame–
- A magnitude-4.5 earthquake struck the Greater Los Angeles area–
- A magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck east of Jakarta, Indonesia–
- In Karlsruhe, Germany, police responded to an emergency call: A baby squirrel was chasing a man down the street and would not give up. When police arrived on the scene, the squirrel was still in pursuit, but then the exhausted rodent suddenly stopped and fell asleep. The police named the small squirrel Karl-Friedrich and took him into custody. Soon after, he was taken to an animal rescue center, where he was later reported to be doing well. Police said likely the baby squirrel had lost its mother and had fixated on the man as a replacement.–
Weather
- A twister passed along the north side of Wallingford, Connecticut, killing 31 people and destroying more than 30 homes, a church, and a schoolhouse–
- 113 degrees F in Perryville, Tennessee–
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