Sam Douglas

Sam Douglas is a British actor born in Banbury in 1957. He trained in acting at Simpson College in Iowa and later studied directing at Oklahoma City University's School of Drama, working under Alan Langdon at both. His screen work includes playing private detective Scott Shelby in the video game Heavy Rain, King Herod in the History Channel miniseries The Bible, and Rosebud in Snatch. On stage he has appeared at London venues such as the Royal Court, the Savoy, and the Royal National Theatre, in productions including Edmond, A Raisin in the Sun, Porgy and Bess, The Darker Face of the Earth, A Streetcar Named Desire, and On The Waterfront with Steven Berkoff. He is also a theater director with the Actors Space in New York and runs method acting workshops in London and Oxford, drawing on the Stanislavski system.