Sam Buffington

Acting

Sam Buffington

Born 1931-10-12 · Swansea, Massachusetts, USA

Sam Buffington (October 12, 1931 – May 15, 1960) was an American actor whose short career included performances on stage, radio, film, and television. He was the star of the CBS radio series Luke Slaughter of Tombstone during 1958 and was one of three regular cast members on the Whispering Smith television series. While Buffington's wife Pat was in Palm Springs, California, he wrote a note to her, locked himself in the bathroom, sealed air passages under the door and window, and turned on a gas jet. When she returned home on Sunday evening, May 15, 1960, she had to break-in the bathroom door. Buffington was dead; his note apologized to her for not being able to support her, and requested cremation. Buffington's friends expressed surprise at the note, since he had made over $20,000 the year before and had good career prospects

Acting credits

The Brothers Karamazov poster
6.5

Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri's jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.

The Brothers Karamazov

1958

King Creole poster
6.4

Delinquent Danny Fisher flunks out of high school, quits his job as a nightclub busboy, and one night gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at The Blue Shade. Danny declines, but Fields won't take no for an answer.

King Creole

1958

Invasion of the Saucer Men poster
4.9

Aliens equipped with venomous claws invade a small town, but the town's teenage population is mobilized to fight the menace.

Invasion of the Saucer Men

1957

The Light in the Forest poster
6.7

A young white man who spent his whole life raised by a Native American tribe is sent to live with his true family and must learn to fit in with the people he was taught to hate.

The Light in the Forest

1958

They Came to Cordura poster
6.5

An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommended soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion of 1916.

They Came to Cordura

1959

Damn Citizen poster
8.0

Louisiana's governor asks war hero Francis C. Grevemberg to lead the state police against corruption.

Damn Citizen

1958

The Rawhide Trail poster
8.0

In this western two wagon masters are wrongfully accused of driving their wagon train in to a Comanche raid and are sentenced to hang. Now they must work hard and fast to prove their innocence.

The Rawhide Trail

1958

Blue Denim poster
5.3

Two naive high-school students must deal with the unexpected consequences after a night of passion.

Blue Denim

1959

Unwed Mother poster
5.2

A young, sweet girl from the country moves to Los Angeles with her mother and meets a young man who she thinks is just perfect. That is until she gets pregnant and he's on his way to jail.

Unwed Mother

1958