Brian Sampson was born in Los Angeles, but grew up in Northern California. His parents were both musicians and public educators when he began acting in plays at elementary school. By Junior High School he was writing, shooting, directing and acting in his own award-winning video productions. In 1990, he visited Los Angeles for a UCLA summer session in the M.P.T.A. program and was hired as a stand-in for the werewolf movie, “The Howling VI.”” His next job in Hollywood was behind the scenes as a production assistant on the HBO movie, “”The Water Engine.”” In the early 1990’s Brian returned to Northern California to finish his bachelor’s degree in English. During his senior year he kept busy working as a camera operator and weekend reporter at KCPM Channel 24 before graduating and moving to Los Angeles. In Hollywood, he was quickly hired as a photographer at an extras casting company in 1996. He worked there for a year, photographing new clients, before trying extra-work as a means to earn his SAG card. Brian joined the Screen Actor’s Guild in 1999 after being featured on season #9, Episode 11 of 90210. His first significant role as a SAG actor was playing a uniformed policeman on several episodes of the television series Nash Bridges. He is known for his work on Nash Bridges, The Matrix Reloaded, I love You Man and Steve Jobs.”
Brian Sampson
Movies
My Name Is Khan
Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, suffers from Asperger’s syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism that complicates socialization. The adult Rizwan marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who mistake his disability for suspicious behavior.…
Fun Facts
Earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from C.S.U. Chico in 1996.
Also earned an Associate Arts Degree in Language Arts at Butte College in 1991.
Attended two semesters of post graduate college at C.S.U. Northridge in the theater department where he worked as a prop master for the spring musical, Tommy in 2008.
In 1995, Brian attended the C.S.U. Summer Arts session for advanced film production at Humboldt State University, where he worked "hands-on"" with Panavision equipment and helped film a music video for The Bodeans.
Brian's first job in Hollywood came in 1990, after completing the ""History of Film"" summer session at U.C.L.A., when he was hired as a stand-in for actor Brendan Hughes on the set of The Howling VI.
Brian worked on two of the modern Planet of the Apes films. In 2001, he played a Chimp fireman for Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes and in 2013 he worked as a photo double for the character Carver in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
Between the year 2000 and 2012, Brian acted onstage in more than a dozen plays in Northern and Southern California.
Tore his ACL in 2007, (while attending college at Northridge). It took two surgeries to repair it.
Has one sibling, a sister, Christine who works as an insurance agent in the East Bay area.
In February of 2009, Brian visited Egypt and meditated inside the Great Pyramid at Giza.
Is an avid cyclist who enjoys riding, customizing and restoring bicycles."