# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/will-sampson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:56:23.116Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/will-sampson"
name: "Will Sampson"
slug: "will-sampson"
description: "William Sampson Jr. was a Muscogee Nation painter, actor, and rodeo performer. He is best known for his performance as the apparently mute Chief Bromden in the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and as Crazy Horse in the 1977 western The White Buffalo, as well as his roles as Taylor in Poltergeist II: The Other Side and Ten Bears in 1976's The Outlaw Josey Wales."
tagline: "Muscogee Creek actor from Oklahoma (1933–1987)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/Willsamson.jpg"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1933-09-27"
deathDate: "1987-06-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    url:       "http://www.kvskvnv.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump