29 Facts About Sam Witwer

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Sam Witwer was born on October 20,1977 and is an American actor.

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Sam Witwer is known for his roles as Crashdown in Battlestar Galactica, Davis Bloome in Smallville, Aidan Waite in Being Human, Mr Hyde in Once Upon a Time, Ben Lockwood in Supergirl, and Rupert Chipping in Riverdale.

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Sam Witwer has voiced the Son and Emperor Palpatine in The Clone Wars and Rebels, respectively.

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Sam Witwer portrayed protagonist Deacon St John through motion capture for the video game Days Gone by Bend Studio.

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Sam Witwer was born on October 20,1977, and grew up in Glenview, Illinois, a small suburb outside of Chicago.

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Sam Witwer attended Glenbrook South High School, during which time he was involved in drama and theater classes, as well as being the lead singer of a high school band called "Love Plumber".

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Sam Witwer attended the Juilliard School for a time before moving to Los Angeles.

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Sam Witwer soon found himself in speaking roles on hit television series, such as ER.

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Sam Witwer appeared as Private Wayne Jessup in the film The Mist.

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From 2008 to 2009, Sam Witwer was cast in season 8 of Smallville as Davis Bloome, a charming paramedic who struggles with a darkness within as he is the human camouflage of Doomsday.

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Sam Witwer played Davis while Doomsday was played by stuntman Dario Delacio.

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Sam Witwer's contract gave him the option to return in season 9 as Zod, though he ultimately declined.

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Sam Witwer made a cameo appearance in The Walking Dead as a dead zombie soldier in a tank in the season 1 episode "Days Gone Bye" which reunited him with director Frank Darabont from The Mist.

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From 2011 to 2014, Sam Witwer starred in the North American remake of Being Human.

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Sam Witwer played the lead role of vampire Aidan Waite.

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Sam Witwer voiced Ocean Master in the animated film Justice League: Throne of Atlantis for the DC Universe Animated Original Movies series, replacing fellow Star Wars actor Steve Blum from Justice League: War.

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In 2016 Sam Witwer played Edward Hyde on Once Upon a Time, recurring for part of its sixth season after debuting at the end of the fifth season.

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Sam Witwer is an avid player of both pen-and-paper and video role-playing games.

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Sam Witwer has been a frequent guest on the Podcast Order 66 and has expressed a love for all iterations of Star Wars role-playing games Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game to Star Wars Roleplaying Game and to the series of cross-compatible Star Wars roleplaying games by Fantasy Flight Games.

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Sam Witwer appeared in episode 19 of Geek and Sundry's Tabletop playing the Dragon Age role-playing game, and episodes 29 and 55 of Dice Camera Action as Mordenkainen.

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Sam Witwer voiced Darth Sidious in the first game, and reprised it for the games Disney Infinity 3.0 and Battlefront and for the original season 2 premiere of Star Wars Rebels; however, in 2019, the role was re-dubbed by Ian McDiarmid who portrayed Palpatine in the films and in Rebels season 4.

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For Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Sam Witwer had vocally performed the Son in a three episode story arc in season 3 as well as the iconic former Sith Maul in the season 4 finale episodes, four episodes of season 5, and the "Siege of Mandalore" arc in season 7.

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Sam Witwer lent his voice for Maul in other projects such as the Star Wars: Episode I Brisk commercial as well as the Cartoon Network special Lego Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out, and again for Star Wars Rebels.

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Sam Witwer attended The Clone Wars season 5 Red Carpet Premiere in Orlando, Florida on August 24,2012 during Celebration VI along with some of his co-stars Matt Lanter, James Arnold Taylor, Dee Bradley Baker, Tom Kane, Daniel Logan, Stephen Stanton and Ashley Eckstein, as well as Supervising Director Dave Filoni.

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Sam Witwer has voiced an alien as well as a First Order stormtrooper during the siege of Maz Kanata's palace in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

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In 2018, Sam Witwer reprised his portrayal as Maul and performed the voice acting role for the character in Solo: A Star Wars Story, marking the sixth project for which Sam Witwer voices Maul, and the first live-action performance.

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In 2020, Sam Witwer was cast as an unidentified dark side character in the StarWarsKids.

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Sam Witwer serves as the front-man for the band The Crashtones, whose first studio album Colorful of the Stereo was released February 15,2006.

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Sam Witwer released a new album May 7,2019 entitled Revenge of the Crashtones.