WILL SAMPSON I have always admired the work of Strother Martin and Donald Pleasance as character actors. Strother once mentioned, in an appearance on the Tonight Show, that he made a lot of money by portraying himself as prairie trash in westerns. Donald gave an absolutely superb performance as a badman in the movie Will Penny. Another actor that I never get weary of is a fellow named Will Sampson. Sadly, Will went up the flume before he played many roles. Most notably he was the supposedly deaf mute Chief Bromden in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest starring Jack Nicholson. In another favorite role he portrayed Chief Ten Bears in The Outlaw Josie Wales, starring Clint Eastwood. Will was a full blood Muscogee Creek born on September 27, 1933 in the small native community of
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