Acting Sampson's acting career launched in 1996 with the role as
Dylan Lewis's sidekick on
Recovery, and as Ali in an episode of
Stingers. He has appeared as a performer on the improvised show ''
Thank God You're Here. In 2007, Sampson portrayed television personality Ugly Dave Gray in the television film The King Leigh Whannell develop a horror film called Insidious''. Sampson was a special guest juror at the 2006
Melbourne International Film Festival, Sampson has since played a diverse array of film roles. In the same year as
Insidious, he was the
suit actor for the role of Bull in
Spike Jonze's
Where the Wild Things Are. In 2015, Sampson starred on the second season of the
FX show
Fargo, playing the character Bear Gerhardt. He starred as "Ozzy" in
The Walking Dead. Since 2022, Sampson has played the lead role of investigator Dennis "Cisco" Wojciechowski in the
Netflix drama series
The Lincoln Lawyer, based on the
novel of the same name and written by
Michael Connelly.
Radio Sampson was an occasional co-host of Australian radio show
Get This with
Tony Martin on
Triple M. Sampson was a founding member of The Forbidden Fruit, an experimental troupe whose only performance was a risque interpretation of
Mad Max 2 they performed on late night radio, in which Angus played The Lord Humongous, who turned out to be quite proficient with the jazz flute. Sampson has also been a presenter on
RRR's
Breakfasters program. In addition, Sampson was also the un-credited host of the cult classic late-night radio show
The Lonely Hearts Club, a deadpan comedy series which ran on ABC Radio National in early 2011 in which Sampson appeared under the pseudonym Richard Silk. ==Filmography==