Angus Sampson Movies and Career Information

Angus Murray Lincoln Sampson is an Australian actor, voice-over artist, director and writer based in Los Angeles and Melbourne. 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 School 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. Sampson has had film roles in Summer Coda, Darkness Falls, 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. Sampson's acting career launched