Samuel Whitehill

Samuel Whitehill is co-lead in "The Touch of the Master's Hand," winner 2021 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction. He was named Best Supporting Actor in a Short Film at the 2020 Nice International film Festival, and he was nominated Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Short Film at the 2019 "I See You" Awards. He is also the recipient of eight ensemble awards. Whitehill brings to the screen not only his six years of on-camera training with veteran character actor Steve Eastin, but also decades of life experience as husband and father, as lawyer from Lubbock, Texas and Washington, DC, importer-exporter, high school and college teacher, and as world traveler, polyglot and published poet and translator. Whitehill began film acting in student productions while living in Austin, Texas, in his 20s. After a hiatus of several decades, he returned to acting in 2015. He has since played principal roles in around 200 feature films and shorts, TV shows, music videos and commercials. Whitehill speaks English, Spanish and Hebrew, and has has published four books of original Hebrew poetry in Israel, where he is known as as Robert Whitehill-Bashan. He has also translated the works of Israeli authors into English and poetry by Walt Whitman into Hebrew. He has worked as an English-to-French translator for one film, and has been studying Mandarin Chinese for many years. Whitehill has been married 43 years, has four adult children, seven grandchildren and a rescue dog named Button. He lives in Burbank, CA.