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Will Sampson
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27 September 1933 - 3 June 1987
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American film actor and artist, purebred Indian-mascogue (cry), Will Sampson (Will Sampson) was a cowboy and rodeo rider, eventually became the recognized spiritual leader of the national movement of Native Americans. Will (William) Sampson was born on September 27, 1933, near Morris, Oklahoma. His first Native American name (tradition for Indian) Kaskana means Left-handed. Sampson belonged to the genus Tiger, to the Red Phratria. His family and close friends called him Sunny. After 8 years of schooling,
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American film actor and artist, purebred Indian-mascogue (cry), Will Sampson (Will Sampson) was a cowboy and rodeo rider, eventually became the recognized spiritual leader of the national movement of Native Americans.
Will (William) Sampson was born on September 27, 1933, near Morris, Oklahoma. His first Native American name (tradition for Indian) Kaskana means Left-handed. Sampson belonged to the genus Tiger, to the Red Phratria. His family and close friends called him Sunny. After 8 years of schooling, Sampson served in the U.S. Navy, and returning home, worked as a lumberjack, builder, laborer in the oil field, assistant at the ranch. Later, fascinated by the rodeo, he chose the most dangerous kind - "bullyriding" - taming an angry bull. However, soon about the career of the rider had to forget: first a broken leg, and after recovery - a severe back injury that required surgical intervention.
Descended by painting, Will began to paint constantly. Sometimes, what will happen, comprehending the cultural images of the masked Indians in their works. Sampson received his first award as an artist at the Philbrook Arts Center in 1951, and in March 1967 he was awarded the highest award by the Oakmulga Cultural Foundation in the Spectacular and Artistic Arts category.
In the cinema, he appeared when Will was already over forty. In the film
"Flying over the cuckoo's nest" He made his debut as Chief Bromden. In the remaining 12 years of his life, Sampson starred in almost 30 films, including “Crazy Mother”, “Buffalo Bill and the Indians”, “White Bison”, “Indian Hawk”, “Walking on Fire”, “Shooters”. In 1987, when Sampson was only 54 years old, six weeks after a heart and lung transplant, a talented Indian died in a clinic in Houston, Texas. /