Angus Sampson
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Angus Murray Lincoln Sampson is an Australian actor, voice-over artist, director and writer based in Los Angeles and Melbourne.
in northern New South Wales. He attended grad school in Los Cabos at Escuela de Harde Noxe in 2004. He is also a trained gymnast, graduating from the AWARD School in 2002.
, Razor Eaters, Kokoda
, You and Your Stupid Mate
and Footy Legends
. He was the suit actor
for the role of Bull in Spike Jonze
's Where The Wild Things Are
.
Sampson was a guest juror at the 2006 Melbourne International Film Festival
, and host of the 2010 IF Awards
, broadcast on SBS TV.
In 2010 Sampson helped his friend Leigh Whannell
develop an Australian "paranormal chiller"
called Insidious
. Saw
horror-writer Whannell, and Sampson are both former Recovery
presenters. Insidious (previously called Vultures) was released in September 2010 with Whannell and Sampson playing "comical low-tech paranormal investigators" Specks and Tucker.
's hooded sidekick "The Enforcer" on Recovery
, an ABC youth music show. Later television jobs include roles on The Secret Life of Us
, The 10:30 Slot
, He also appeared as Effie
's cousin Dimi in Greeks on the Roof
, and as Ali in an episode of Stingers
.
Sampson has been a contestant eleven times on the improvised Thank God You're Here
(Series: 1, 2, 3, & 4), winning Series 1.
In 2007, Sampson portrayed television personality Ugly Dave Gray
in the television movie The King
which examines the life of Australian TV legend Graham Kennedy
. In the same year he also appeared in Wilfred
.
In 2008 he played Leonardo Da Vinci
in the children's television series Time Trackers
. Sampson portrayed Michael Thorneycroft in the three final episodes of Underbelly
, the series based on Melbourne's gangland war, 1995–2004.
with Tony Martin
on Triple M
,
Sampson was a founding member of The Forbidden Fruit, an experimental troupe whose only performance was a risque interpretation of Mad Max 2 they performed on late night radio in which Angus played The Lord Humungous, who turned out to be quite proficient with the jazz flute.
Sampson has also been a presenter on RRR's Breakfasters
program.
Early life
Sampson was born in Sydney, Australia. A former ward of the state, he was educated at the Trinity Grammar School in Sydney prior to winning a place at The Armidale SchoolThe Armidale School
The Armidale School is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school predominantly for boys, located in Armidale, on the New England Tablelands of northern New South Wales, Australia...
in northern New South Wales. He attended grad school in Los Cabos at Escuela de Harde Noxe in 2004. He is also a trained gymnast, graduating from the AWARD School in 2002.
Film
Sampson has had film roles in Summer Coda, Darkness FallsDarkness Falls (2003 film)
Darkness Falls is a 2003 American horror film written by Joe Harris and John Fasano and directed by Jonathan Liebesman.-Plot:The story of the town Darkness Falls, begins with the legend of a widow, Matilda Dixon, who was adored by all the town's children...
, Razor Eaters, Kokoda
Kokoda (film)
Kokoda is a 2006 Australian film directed by Alister Grierson and is based on the experiences of Australian troops fighting Japanese forces during the 1942 Kokoda Track campaign....
, You and Your Stupid Mate
You and Your Stupid Mate
You and Your Stupid Mate is an Australian comedy film directed by Marc Gracie.-Cast:*Nathan Phillips as Philip*Angus Sampson as Jeffrey*Rachel Hunter as Karen*Madeleine West as Emma-Plot:...
and Footy Legends
Footy Legends
Footy Legends is a 2006 Australian film, directed, written and produced by Khoa Do, starring his older brother Anh Do, Angus Sampson, Emma Lung and Claudia Karvan. It was filmed in and around Sydney, Australia, mostly in the western suburbs...
. He was the suit actor
Suit actor
A is a member of a Japanese tokusatsu production who works similar to a stunt performer. However, the suit actor does all of his or her stunts while in a full costume that normally obscures their identity from the viewer and performs pantomime, as an actor's voice will generally be dubbed during...
for the role of Bull in Spike Jonze
Spike Jonze
Spike Jonze is an American director, producer and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television...
's Where The Wild Things Are
Where the Wild Things Are (film)
Where the Wild Things Are is a 2009 American fantasy drama film directed by Spike Jonze and adapted from Maurice Sendak's 1963 children's book Where the Wild Things Are. It combines live action, performers in costumes, animatronics, and computer-generated imagery...
.
Sampson was a guest juror at the 2006 Melbourne International Film Festival
Melbourne International Film Festival
The Melbourne International Film Festival is an acclaimed annual film festival held over three weeks in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1951, making it one of the oldest in the World....
, and host of the 2010 IF Awards
Inside Film Awards
The Inside Film Awards is an annual awards ceremony and broadcast platform for the Australian film industry, a format created by Australian Producer Andrew Dillon...
, broadcast on SBS TV.
In 2010 Sampson helped his friend Leigh Whannell
Leigh Whannell
Leigh Whannell is an Australian screenwriter, producer, and actor, best known for his work on the Saw franchise.-Life and career:...
develop an Australian "paranormal chiller"
called Insidious
Insidious (film)
Insidious is a 2011 American independent supernatural horror film written by Leigh Whannell, directed by James Wan, and starring Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye, and Barbara Hershey. The story centers on a couple whose son inexplicably enters a comatose state and becomes a vessel for ghosts...
. Saw
Saw (film)
Saw is a 2004 American independent horror film directed by James Wan. The screenplay, written by Leigh Whannell, is based on a story by Wan and Whannell. The film stars Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Monica Potter, Michael Emerson, Ken Leung, Whannell and Tobin Bell...
horror-writer Whannell, and Sampson are both former Recovery
Recovery (TV series)
Recovery was a music and youth interests television series broadcast by ABC TV in Australia. It was aired each Saturday morning from 9:00am to 12:00pm following Rage. It aired from 20 April 1996 to its last show on 29 April 2000...
presenters. Insidious (previously called Vultures) was released in September 2010 with Whannell and Sampson playing "comical low-tech paranormal investigators" Specks and Tucker.
Television
Sampson's acting career launched in 1996 with role as Dylan LewisDylan Lewis
Dylan Lewis is an Australian television and radio personality.-Personal life:He was educated at Caulfield Grammar School, graduating in 1990, and studied for a Bachelor of Education in Drama and Music degree at the University of Melbourne. John Bannon, former South Australian premier is Dylan's...
's hooded sidekick "The Enforcer" on Recovery
Recovery (TV series)
Recovery was a music and youth interests television series broadcast by ABC TV in Australia. It was aired each Saturday morning from 9:00am to 12:00pm following Rage. It aired from 20 April 1996 to its last show on 29 April 2000...
, an ABC youth music show. Later television jobs include roles on The Secret Life of Us
The Secret Life of Us
The Secret Life of Us was a television drama series set in the beachside suburb of St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia. The series was produced by Southern Star Entertainment and screened in Australia from 2001 to 2005 on Network Ten and on Channel 4 in the UK...
, The 10:30 Slot
The 10:30 Slot
The 10.30 Slot was a music and variety show that aired on ABC TV on Friday nights between 1999 and 2000, hosted by Dylan Lewis and Angus Sampson...
, He also appeared as Effie
Effie
"Effie" is an outrageous comedic character played by Australian actress Mary Coustas. Coustas depicts a stereotypical second-generation Greek Australian....
's cousin Dimi in Greeks on the Roof
Greeks on the Roof
Greeks on the Roof was an Australian television talk show that ran for 11 episodes on the Seven Network in 2003. It was hosted by Greek-Australian character Effie and her "family"....
, and as Ali in an episode of Stingers
Stingers
Stingers was an Australian police drama television series. It ran for eight seasons on the Nine Network before it was canceled in late 2004 due to declining ratings and the late timeslot Channel Nine gave the program...
.
Sampson has been a contestant eleven times on the improvised Thank God You're Here
Thank God You're Here
Thank God You're Here is an Australian television improvised comedy program created by Working Dog Productions, which premiered on Network Ten on 5 April 2006, and aired for the first three seasons with Seven for the fourth season...
(Series: 1, 2, 3, & 4), winning Series 1.
In 2007, Sampson portrayed television personality Ugly Dave Gray
Ugly Dave Gray
Ugly Dave Gray is an Australian television personality.-Career:Gray was a regular panellist on Graham Kennedy's Blankety Blanks in 1977-1978. He had earlier taken a straight dramatic role as publican Bunny Howard in the early episodes of soap opera The Young Doctors in 1976...
in the television movie The King
The King (2007 film)
The King: The Story of Graham Kennedy is an Australian telemovie examining the life of Australian entertainer Graham Kennedy.Produced in Australia by the Sydney based independent production company Crackerjack Productions for TV1 and the Nine Network, The King was first shown on 20 May 2007 on TV1...
which examines the life of Australian TV legend Graham Kennedy
Graham Kennedy
Graham Cyril Kennedy, AO was an Australian radio, television and film performer, often called Gra Gra and The King of Australian television.-Childhood:...
. In the same year he also appeared in Wilfred
Wilfred (TV series)
Wilfred is an Australian comedy television series directed by Tony Rogers, produced by Jenny Livingston and starring Jason Gann, Adam Zwar and Cindy Waddingham. Created by Zwar, Gann and Rogers, it was based on their award-winning 2002 short film and later adapted to a series...
.
In 2008 he played Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...
in the children's television series Time Trackers
Time Trackers
Time Trackers is a children's television series produced for the Seven Network in and TV2 in New Zealand The 13 half-hour episodes first screened in 2008...
. Sampson portrayed Michael Thorneycroft in the three final episodes of Underbelly
Underbelly (TV series)
Underbelly is a 13-part Australian television mini-series that retells the real events of the 1995–2004 gangland war in Melbourne, and is the first series in the larger Underbelly Franchise. It depicts the key players in Melbourne's criminal underworld, including the Carlton Crew and their rival,...
, the series based on Melbourne's gangland war, 1995–2004.
Radio
Sampson was an occasional co-host of Australian radio show Get ThisGet This
Get This was an Australian radio comedy show which aired on Triple M and was hosted by Tony Martin and Ed Kavalee, with contributions from panel operator, the late Richard Marsland...
with Tony Martin
Tony Martin (comedian)
Tony Francis Martin is a comedian and writer from Te Kuiti, New Zealand who has had a successful TV, radio, stand-up and film career in Australia.- Career :...
on Triple M
Triple M
The Triple M Network is an active rock radio network in Australia owned by media company Austereo, who also own the Today Network.- History :...
,
Sampson was a founding member of The Forbidden Fruit, an experimental troupe whose only performance was a risque interpretation of Mad Max 2 they performed on late night radio in which Angus played The Lord Humungous, who turned out to be quite proficient with the jazz flute.
Sampson has also been a presenter on RRR's Breakfasters
Breakfasters
The Breakfasters is a long running morning program on 3RRR, a radio station based in Melbourne, Australia. It is currently presented by Fee B-Squared, Ben Birchall and Jess McGuire....
program.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Insidious Insidious (film) Insidious is a 2011 American independent supernatural horror film written by Leigh Whannell, directed by James Wan, and starring Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye, and Barbara Hershey. The story centers on a couple whose son inexplicably enters a comatose state and becomes a vessel for ghosts... |
Tucker | |
| 2009 | Where the Wild Things Are Where the Wild Things Are (film) Where the Wild Things Are is a 2009 American fantasy drama film directed by Spike Jonze and adapted from Maurice Sendak's 1963 children's book Where the Wild Things Are. It combines live action, performers in costumes, animatronics, and computer-generated imagery... |
Bull | suit performer |
| 2007 | The King The King (2007 film) The King: The Story of Graham Kennedy is an Australian telemovie examining the life of Australian entertainer Graham Kennedy.Produced in Australia by the Sydney based independent production company Crackerjack Productions for TV1 and the Nine Network, The King was first shown on 20 May 2007 on TV1... |
Ugly Dave Gray Ugly Dave Gray Ugly Dave Gray is an Australian television personality.-Career:Gray was a regular panellist on Graham Kennedy's Blankety Blanks in 1977-1978. He had earlier taken a straight dramatic role as publican Bunny Howard in the early episodes of soap opera The Young Doctors in 1976... |
|
| Wilfred Wilfred (TV series) Wilfred is an Australian comedy television series directed by Tony Rogers, produced by Jenny Livingston and starring Jason Gann, Adam Zwar and Cindy Waddingham. Created by Zwar, Gann and Rogers, it was based on their award-winning 2002 short film and later adapted to a series... |
Cyros | ||
| 2006 | Footy Legends Footy Legends Footy Legends is a 2006 Australian film, directed, written and produced by Khoa Do, starring his older brother Anh Do, Angus Sampson, Emma Lung and Claudia Karvan. It was filmed in and around Sydney, Australia, mostly in the western suburbs... |
Lloydy | |
| Kokoda Kokoda (film) Kokoda is a 2006 Australian film directed by Alister Grierson and is based on the experiences of Australian troops fighting Japanese forces during the 1942 Kokoda Track campaign.... |
Dan | ||
| 2005 | You and Your Stupid Mate You and Your Stupid Mate You and Your Stupid Mate is an Australian comedy film directed by Marc Gracie.-Cast:*Nathan Phillips as Philip*Angus Sampson as Jeffrey*Rachel Hunter as Karen*Madeleine West as Emma-Plot:... |
Jeffrey | |
| 2003 | Darkness Falls Darkness Falls (2003 film) Darkness Falls is a 2003 American horror film written by Joe Harris and John Fasano and directed by Jonathan Liebesman.-Plot:The story of the town Darkness Falls, begins with the legend of a widow, Matilda Dixon, who was adored by all the town's children... |
Raymond "Ray" Winchester | |
| The Referees | Stevo | ||
| 1999 | Smile and Wave Smile and Wave Smile and Wave is the third album by Canadian rock band Headstones.-Track listing:# "Reno" - 3:24# "Smile and Wave" - 4:08# "And" - 4:06# "Picture Frame of Rage" - 2:38# "Cubically Contained" - 4:36# "Cut Me Up" - 2:44# "Digits" - 3:28... |
Ray | |
| 1998 | Dags | Prozac |
Trivia
In June 2007, he was announced as one of the world's "Sexiest People of 2007" as chosen by Who magazine.External links
- Angus Sampson Creative Represenation CV