Billy Sample
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
More than four decades passed since the Salem, Virginia native acted
upon the promise he showed in two high school plays, and his subsequent
first professional thespian attempts; and in one of those attempts he
had to write the screenplay in order to cast himself. Reunion 108 took
home top honors at the 2011 Hoboken Film Festival in the Best
Unproduced Screenplay Category, and the movie by the same name, was
shot the following year and scheduled for release the summer of 2013.
The edgy, satirical comedy with parody, encompasses years of
information gleaned from employment as a minor and major league
baseball player, a broadcaster and a sportswriter. Mr. Sample is hoping
to accelerate the pace of his projects, as who knows where we'll all be
after the next four decades ...