Angus Sampson

Angus Murray Lincoln Sampson (born 1978 or 1979)^[1] is an Australian actor, director, producer, writer, and voice-over artist.

Early life

Sampson was born in Sydney, Australia, and was educated at The Armidale School in northern New South Wales. He graduated from the AWARD School in 2002.^[2]

Career

Film

Sampson has had a diverse and distinct array of film roles, including Mad Max: Fury Road, Now Add Honey, Insidious, Insidious: Chapter 2, The Mule, Summer Coda,^[3][4][5] Darkness Falls,^[6] Razor Eaters,^[7] Kokoda,^[6] and Footy Legends.^[6] He was the suit actor for the role of Bull^[6] in Spike Jonze's Where The Wild Things Are.^[8]

Sampson was a special guest juror at the 2006 Melbourne International Film Festival,^[2] and host of the 2010 IF Awards, broadcast on SBS TV.^[9]

In 2010 Sampson helped his friend Leigh Whannell develop an Australian "paranormal chiller" called Insidious.^[10][11] Saw horror-writer Whannell,^[12] and Sampson are both former Recovery presenters. Insidious (previously called Vultures)^[2] first screened in September 2010 with Whannell and Sampson playing "comical low-tech paranormal investigators" Specks and Tucker.^[10]

Television

Sampson's acting career launched in 1996 with role as Dylan Lewis's balaclaved sidekick "The Enforcer" on Recovery,^[6] an ABC youth music show. Later television jobs include roles on The Secret Life of Us, The 10:30 Slot,^[6] He also appeared as Effie's cousin Dimi in Greeks on the Roof,^[13] and as Ali in an episode of Stingers.^[14]

Sampson was a popular performer and series winner on the improvised Thank God You're Here (Series: 1, 2, 3, & 4).^[6][15]

In 2007, Sampson portrayed television personality Ugly Dave Gray in the television movie The King^[6] which examines the life of Australian TV legend Graham Kennedy. In the same year he also appeared in Wilfred.^[6][16] In 2008 he played Leonardo da Vinci in the children's television series Time Trackers.^[16] Sampson portrayed Michael Thorneycroft in the three final episodes of Underbelly,^[6][16] the series based on Melbourne's gangland war, 1995–2004.

In 2012, he teamed up with Toby Schmitz reaching the semi-finals in Season 1 of the hilariously confusing Australian word game Randling, hosted by Andrew Denton on ABC1.

In 2015, Sampson acquired a role on the FX hit show Fargo, playing the character Bear Gerhardt.

Radio

Sampson was an occasional co-host of Australian radio show Get This with Tony Martin on Triple M.^[17] 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.^[18] In addition, Sampson was also the un-credited host of the cult classic late-night radio show The Lonely Hearts Club, a deadpan comedy series which ran on ABC Radio National in early 2011 in which Sampson appeared under the pseudonym Richard Silk.^[19]

Filmography

References

External links

• Angus Sampson at the Internet Movie Database
• Angus Sampson Creative Representation CV