Samuel Pack "Sam" Elliott was born in Sacramento, California and moved
to Oregon with his family during his teenage years, where he graduated
from David Douglas High School in Portland. He then attended Clark
College in Vancouver, Washington, After a two-year program, Elliott
went to Hollywood where he worked in construction while studying acting.

Elliott began his career as a character actor in Westerns. One of his first
film roles was as ‘Card Player #2’ in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(1969).

               Rory Calhoun (Francis Timothy McCown) 

                        (August 8, 1922 – April 28, 1999)

Calhoun was an television and film actor, screenwriter and producer,
best known for his roles in Westerns.

The Texan is a Western television series which aired on the CBS
television network from 1958 to 1960. Calhoun plays Bill Longley,
a Confederate captain from the Civil War, who roams the west
helping people in need.

Born in Harrah, Oklahoma, Dayle Lymoine "Dale" Robertson played the
role of Jim Hardie in the NBC-TV series, Tales of Wells Fargo (1957-1962),
and the owner of a railroad line in ABC’s The Iron Horse (1966-1968). He
worked as a professional boxer briefly before enrolling in Oklahoma Military
Academy in Claremore, Oklahoma. He also served in the military before his
professional acting career began. He was in a tank crew and in the combat 
engineers in North Africa during World War II and was wounded twice. 
twice.

         Bob Steele (January 23, 1907 – December 21, 1988)

Bob Steele was born Robert Adrian Bradbury in Portland, Oregon, into a 
vaudeville family. They eventually settled in Hollywood in the late 1910s
where father, Robert N. Bradbury, soon found work in the movies, first
as an actor, later as a director. By 1920, he hired Bob and his twin
brother Bill (1907–1971) as juvenile leads for a series of adventure
movies titled The Adventures of Bob and Bill.

Bob’s career began to progress in 1927, when he was hired by the
production company Film Booking Offices of America (FBO) to star in
a series of Westerns. Bob, who was re-christened Bob Steele at FBO,
soon made a name for himself, and in the late 1920s, 1930s and
1940s starred in B-Westerns for almost every minor film studio,

Steele also did a lot of television work, culminating as a regular in a 
supporting role in the ABC army comedy F Troop (1965–1967).

1946

From left: Larry Storch, Bob Steele and Forrest Tucker on the set of F Troop

 

            Warren Mercer Oates (July 5, 1928 – April 3, 1982)

Actor Warren Oates was best known for his roles in several films directed
by Sam Peckinpah including The Wild Bunch (1969) and Bring Me the
Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974). He starred in numerous films during the
early 1970s which have since achieved cult status including The Hired
Hand (1971), Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) and Race with the Devil
(1975). Oates also portrayed Sergeant Hulka in Stripes (1981).

Gunsmoke episode, "Circus Trick" from 1965

Warren Oates in Stripes