Sam Rockwell, born Samuel Rockwell on November 5, 1968, in Daly City,
California, United States, is an American actor. Rockwell began his film career
in the horror film Clownhouse in 1989, subsequently appearing in independent
films including Box of Moonlight in 1996 and Lawn Dogs in 1997. He gained wider
recognition for his role as William "Wild Bill" Wharton in the prison drama The
Green Mile in 1999 and as Chuck Barris in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind in
2002, for which he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the Berlin
International Film Festival. His film credits also inc...