Sam Conway
Sam Conway is known for The Fandom (2020) and This Is Life with Lisa Ling (2014).
Sam Cooke
Sam Cooke was born January 22, 1931 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He was one of eight children of Charles Cook Sr., a Baptist minister. When Sam sang as a little boy in church, everyone made note that his voice had "something special". He sang in church and in local gospel choirs until a group called the Highway Q.C.'s asked him to sing with them at various venues. By the time he reached 20, Sam's voice was a finely honed instrument and he was noted for bringing the spirit up in churchgoers. When Sam replaced R.H. Harris, the legendary lead singer for the extremely popular gospel group The Soul Stirrers, it was the beginning of his meteoric rise. Cooke sang with the group for six years, traveling back and forth across the country and gaining a wealth of knowledge regarding how black people were treated. His refusal to sing at a segregated concert led to what many have described as one of the first real efforts in civil disobedience and helped usher in the new Civil Rights Movement. After several gospel albums, Sam decided it was time to cross over from gospel (against almost everyone's advice) to record some soul and rhythm & blues. His hypnotically smooth voice, not to mention his finely chiseled good looks, brought him almost instant success. His first single released in 1957 was "You Send Me", which sold over a million copies and made Sam an "overnight success" in the business. He was on his way to becoming the biggest voice on the radio. Record producers vied to sign him to a contract. In 1960 he became the first major black artist to sign with RCA Records. Sam was not happy with the deal and when the time was right decided to start his own publishing company (KAGS Music) to keep control over his music and his own record company (SAR/Derby) to keep control of his money. Sam married his high school sweetheart, Barbara Campbell, in 1959 and they had three children. Tragically, their youngest child, Vincent, drowned in their swimming pool at age four in June 1964. On the night of December 11, 1964, Sam had withdrawn some money to buy Christmas presents. The manager of the motel he was staying in, Bertha Franklin, who had shot and killed a man six months previously at the same motel, made arrangements with a local prostitute named Elisa Boyer to pick up Sam at a local bar and bring him back to the motel. As he and the woman entered the motel room Sam was struck on the head and momentarily knocked out. Boyer, who was known as a "drunk roller" who would rob her clients, took Sam's money and met Franklin at the motel office. When Cooke regained consciousness he was disoriented, in addition to being without his pants and his wallet. He stumbled to the motel office and saw Boyer and Franklin counting his money ($2,500 - a considerable amount of money at the time) through the window. He demanded his pants, money and wallet back. When they didn't open the door, Cooke knocked on it as hard as he could and it came off the hinges. When he got up off the floor Mrs. Franklin shot him and then instructed Boyer to run down the street and call police from a phone booth. Boyer told them a phony story about a rape and left the scene and subsequently disappeared. Sam was dead when the police arrived and, since Boyer had stolen his wallet, they had no idea who it was and took it as a routine justified homicide in the ghetto. The coroner's inquest should have been a slam-dunk, but not one pertinent question was asked by an investigator, nor was a background check made that would have revealed Bertha Franklin's deadly past. The authorities simply took her made-up story as "gospel". Sam's murder was chalked up as just another unidentified "rapist" killed in Watts. It wasn't until the following Monday morning that a reporter found out Sam Cooke was signed in to the motel registry as himself and that one of the world's greatest talents and a true human being was dead, under shady circumstances that might never have been covered by the media.
Sam Coppola
Sam Coppola was born on July 31, 1935 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He is known for Saturday Night Fever (1977), Fatal Attraction (1987) and Jacob's Ladder (1990). He was married to Helen Elizabeth Shinnick. He died on February 5, 2012 in Leonia, New Jersey.
Sam Cordes
Sam Cordes was "born in a trunk" in Kansas City, Missouri and has been doing professional theatre since the age of five. Raised by actors, Cordes made quite the name for himself as an upcoming talent in the thriving theatre community of his hometown and has gone on to receive his B.F.A. in Theatre from Stephens College for Women in Columbia, MO and his M.F.A. in Theatre from The University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Trained in many techniques from Uta Hagen to Michael Luggering's Expresive Actor and proficient in a multitude of styles from Shakespeare to Musical Theatre, Cordes is both an accomplished actor and teacher.
Sam Corlett
Born and raised on the Central Coast, NSW, Australia, to a Counsellor and a Tradesman, a career in acting wasn't particularly on the radar for young Sam Corlett. Though, through his high level experience in sport, in conjunction with his draw to explore art, psychology, human behavior, philosophy and writing, he came to realize all his passions found their expression through stage and screen. Sam's curiosity to tell stories in these mediums has driven him to practice with some of the most renowned coaches such as Elizabeth Kemp, Les Chantery, Glenda Linscott and Andrew Lewis. Sam graduated his Bachelor of Performing Arts, Acting at the prestigious WAAPA (Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts) at the end of 2018 providing him with great opportunities to stretch and expand, in training, and throughout various productions. In second year Sam was part of a Chris Isaac's The Emancipation of Alice Paws, a collaboration with Playwrights Australia in which, the cast of five was flown to China to perform at the Asia Pacific Bureau Theatre Schools Festival & Directors Conference. Among ten productions, Sam's stage highlights include Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire, Thomas Putnam in Arthur Miller's The Crucible and Demetrius in William Shakespeare's Midsummer Nights Dream. Upon leaving WAAPA Sam was cast in the much anticipated film adaptation of Jane Harper's Best Selling Thriller 'The Dry'. Sam is currently working on a project with Warner Brothers and Netflix.
Sam Cornwall
Sam Cornwall is an actor and writer, known for A Runners Guide to Amnesia (2020), Dead End (2022) and Fixed (2021).
Sam Corry
Sam Corry is an actor, known for Primeval (2007), The Clinic (2003) and Ghost Machine (2009).
Sam Cota
Sam Cota is known for Singles (2022), Happy's (2021) and Flirts (2022).
Sam Cotton
Sam Cotton is an actor and writer, known for Diary of an Uber Driver (2019), Mr Inbetween (2018) and Rosehaven (2016).
Sam Coward
Sam Coward is an actor, known for Charlie's Farm (2014), Boar (2017) and Thicker Than Water (2018). He has been married to Xanthe Coward since December 14, 2002. They have one child.