The Australian director who gave the actor his big break in My Brilliant Career remembers ‘a smart, gentle, decent, passionate, loyal, surprisingly funny man’
What can I say? I’m shocked and sad. He’d just been through the cancer treatments and was finally free. And bang! He’s gone. But what wonderful heartfelt tributes from everywhere.
Yes, Sam was a great actor, in so many films, so many roles. Dashing, dry, evil, cheeky, damaged and very heroic. Even my grandson knows that man with the dinosaurs. I loved him having fun as that sly, handsome, grey-haired lawyer in The Twelve.
