Sam Pinkerton

Sam Pinkerton

As a journalist I have been published in many of the world's leading newspapers, including the UK Sunday Times, The L.A. Times and the New York Times;

I am a produced playwright; I've had two feature film screenplays optioned. I write full time.

I come from a Military family - my father, mother, three brothers and I are all Veterans.

I've lived in 28 cities around the world (that's lived, not visited).

I've worked as a professional actor for over 30 years from California to Italy. I currently appear on television throughout Israel.

I have been an acting teacher since 1993.

In my younger days I was a well known model who worked in Italy, New York, Africa, France, Germany, Great Britain and L.A.

Out of necessity I worked as a stand up comedian for three years in Britain and was shortlisted by the BBC as one of the 'top new comedians' of 2005.

I have been married and divorced twice and I still wax optimistic that I will eventually meet my future third ex-wife. However this time I will not immediatley grant her custody and hope she is fair about my visitation rights.

I currently reside in Tel Aviv, where I must live in order to see my children.

I await the confrontation with Iran.
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  • Tom's Time Machine
    Tom invents a time machine to go back in time and find out why his father committed suicide. Things don't go as planned.
  • Acting on America's Number One Television Show
    I worked as an actor on the number one prime time television show "Dallas" half a dozen times. I was a new actor working with the seasoned pro Larry Hagman. He wasn't kind but he was professional. And I learned a lot.
  • Being on 'The Merv Griffin Show'
    In 1982 I made my final appearance on the Merv Griffin Show. Merv was, at that time, arguably the most powerful man in television. He created the classic Gameshows 'Jeopardy' and 'Wheel of Fortune,' amongst many others.
  • The 'Nam
    Boot Camp, early 1970's: Political Correctness had not yet overtaken the military. This was the military depicted in "Full Metal Jacket": Brutal, unfair, mindless: All in preparation to go kill people in Viet Nam.
  • Riots 3: You Made Me Hate You
    Damien, large powerful and black, led the attack on Dreamy. But he is unrepentant and here tells a white psychiatrist why.
  • Riots 2: Brain Damaged, or Christ-Like?
    Acting Monologue: Dreamy was severly beaten during the L.A. riots. Unlike Tommy, who seeks revenge by buying a gun, Dreamy forgives those who mindlessly hurt him.
  • Riots 1: Tommy Gets a Gun
    Part 1 of "The Riots Are Coming": An Acting Monologue: Post L.A. Riots, Tommy tells his brain damaged friend Dreamy that there will be another riot, on April Fool's day.
  • Fool's Gold
    A fictional account of one's man's search for gold in California in 1852.
  • Write Less, Get Less?
    AC reduces it's page view rules - does this mean less money and less insight?
  • Awaiting Armageddon
    How I came to tolerate living in Israel after living in Scotland, the land of my forefathers and nowadays a drunken wasteland of feral children and violent men.
  • Masculine Woman
    A sanitized version of a poem I wrote in a huff one day here in Tel Aviv.
  • Applying for a Job in Israel:
    When I first moved to Israel I applied for a job teaching Israelis how to write. I was contacted by a company that asked me to write a quick, short story about an office experience.
  • Memories of John F. Kennedy's Assassination
    A memory shared by my mother about the Kennedy assassination, as seen from the perspective of Americans living on an Air Force base in Madrid, Spain.
  • Awaiting Armageddon: November 21, 2011
    Poetic re-write of the Beatles "A Day In The Life" taken from the viewpoint of living in a country one does not want to live in and having to suffer the fate of said country for the sake of one's children.
  • Awaiting Armageddon in Israel: November 19, 2011
    What do you do when threatened? Make fun of it. Here are a few suicide bomber jokes I wrote.
  • Awaiting Armageddon in Israel: November 19, 2011
    The ongoing true story of a man's quest to remain a hands on father, leading him from the comfort of his home in America to Israel.
  • Ode to the X-Mo
    Fanciful eugology for my ex-mother in law, one of the richest people in Israel.
  • More Colinton Village, Scotland
    Casual photographs of the countryside surrounding Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • Colinton Village, Scotland
    Random photographs of the countryside on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
  • Central Park Blues
    homeless man in central park, new york city
  • Cannibal Boy
    A somewhat humorous look at what happens when cultures collide: Love, confusion - which will win out?
  • A Monster in the House
    Kafkaesque villanelle.

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