Sam Elliott was making films for half a century before he earned his first Academy Award nomination last month for his heart-wrenching turn as roadie vet Bobby in the hit musical drama A Star Is Born. Still, his very first movie credit — no matter how tiny the role — was an impressive one. The gravelly voiced, magnificently mustached Elliott, now 74, played “Card Player No. 2” in the Paul Newman-Robert Redford outlaw classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). “I was in the card game r...