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The Man Behind the Voice: Sam Elliott and His Life in Hollywood

It’s What’s for Dinner

It’s not hard to come across Elliott’s velvety voice when you’re watching TV. One of his most notable voiceover works was a series of ads for the beef industry. Their campaign ran for several years, and you, for sure, remember them. If you remember the famous tagline “Beef: It’s what’s for dinner,” then you recognize Sam’s voice.

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If his voice didn’t make you want to order a steak at your night out at a restaurant, then I don’t know what can. Sam has said that he agreed to do the voiceovers for those advertisements as a way of helping out all the hard-working ranchers and folks in the farming industry. However, Sam wasn’t able to deal with the ad agency’s increasingly demanding attitude, so he eventually moved on to do other projects.