William Samples

Actor Sep 13 (died age 71) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India 1980–2023 (43 year career)

6.5 avg rating

Highest Rated

Supernatural

2005 · as Minister

8.3

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

2010 · as Professor Flintheart (voice)

8.2

Battlestar Galactica

2004 · as Captain Jules Tarney

8.2

Known For

Film

Happy Gilmore

Starter #2 - AT&T

Film

To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You

Bert

Film

The BFG

Palace Staff #2 (aka Footman)

Film

The Big Year

British Tourist

Film

Snow Buddies

Butler

Film

Santa Buddies

James the Butler

Film

Once Upon a Prince

Sir Edward Tilbury

Film

Legend of Earthsea

Doctor Hand

Filmography

Acting (49)

Movies (25)

To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You

2020

as Bert

6.8

Once Upon a Prince

2018

as Sir Edward Tilbury

6.5

The BFG

2016

as Palace Staff #2 (aka Footman)

6.3

The Clockwork Girl

2014

as Additional Voices (voice)

5.4

The Big Year

2011

as British Tourist

6.0

The Side Show Christmas

2010

2.0

Hop the Twig

2010

as Narrator (voice)

Santa Buddies

as James the Butler

Snow Buddies

as Butler

The Fair Haired Child

as Anton

Lucky 7

as Kyron

Ben Hur

as Roman Solider (voice)

Johnson County War

as Arthur

Kelly Dream Club

as Royal Walla (voice)

Movie Toons: Treasure Island

2002

as Captain Smollett (voice)

7.0

Happy Gilmore

1996

as Starter #2 - AT&T

6.7

Ernest Goes to School

as Mr. Peyton

The Sea Wolf

as Charles Furuseth

Heritage Minutes: Nitro

1993

as Additional Cast

Heritage Minutes: Sir Sandford Fleming

1993

as Fleming

Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus

1991

as Mr. Schuller

7.0

Showdown at Williams Creek

Watchers

as Motel Clerk

By Design

Powder Heads

as Phillip Buster

Television (24)

Wilderness

as Bingo Caller

The Flash

as Mr. Vandervoort

Witches of East End

as Art Lover

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

2010

as Professor Flintheart (voice)

Psych

as Dr. Morey

Supernatural

as Minister

Masters of Horror

as Anton

Battlestar Galactica

as Captain Jules Tarney

Legend of Earthsea

as Doctor Hand

The Twilight Zone

as Mr. Jennings

Smallville

as Harry Hardwick

Andromeda

as King of Prolon

Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century

1999

as Chief Inspector Greyson (voice)

7.9

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

1997

as Dimitri (segment "Bad Dreams")

Extreme Dinosaurs

The Sentinel

as Jeffrey Collins

Action Man

as (voice)

Highlander: The Series

as Bruce

Palace Guard

Booker

as Waiter

Bordertown

as Commissioner Alexander Stewart

21 Jump Street

as English Teacher

MacGyver

as Headmaster Blake

Airwolf

as Pervis