Sam Tate
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| Born | December 21, 1977 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| 💼 Occupation | Actor, singer and tap dancer |
| 📆 Years active | 1977–present |
| 👴 👵 Parent(s) | Billy Tate Lucy Tate |
Sam Tate (born December 21, 1977) is an American actor, barefooter, tap dancer, and singer. He is currently best known for Buck Trouble Trollie in Trollies Radio Show since 2003. He’s also best known as Sammy, the male auburn-haired american band/group member of the Digitalin of the PBS children's television series Square One Television during its entire five-year run.
He and his brother Wayne Tate made up the spitting image of Nicholas Brothers tap dance duo Sam and Wayne Tate in the 1990s until 2001 he replaced by Randall Wright ever since 2002 into Randall Wright and Wayne Tate.
He is seen barefoot during a performing in the many films.
Early Life and career
Sam Tate was born on December 21, 1977, in Nashville, Tennessee, to his father and veterinarian, Billy (born August 16, 1937), was 40 and his mother, singer, actress and the member of pop group The Tate Sisters, Lucy, (born August 16, 1939) was 38. He is the seventh child of ten children of Lucy and Billy.
He began acting as a baby boy in the same year of 1977. He began tap dancing in his age of 4 and taught by Sophie Price Milne in December 6, 1982.
He appeared on the 1986 episode of PBS’s Melba Huber’s World, which aired on December 6, 1986, 15 days before his ninth birthday and he was 8 years old, talking about his tap shoes.
In October 1, 1987, Sam Tate (age 8) began singing and dancing along with the children’s cult film Mad Monster Party that first broadcast on Nickelodeon on TV and his mother made her film debut when she was 26 in 1966.
Sam Tate (age 10) appears as Buck Ghost who died from coughing pneumonia on 1954, a character appeared in Mystery Magical Special on Nickelodeon on October 29, 1988, Also starring Marc Summer, Shiri Appleby, Jonathan Brandis, Trenton Teigen, John Astin and Jane Milner (who born on January 15, 1962 in Dallas, Texas)
Since 1978, he joins the franchise Where will my feet take me today?
He and his brother Wayne Tate made up the spitting image of Nicholas Brothers tap dance duo Sam and Wayne Tate in the 1990s until 2001 he replaced by Randall Wright ever since 2002 into Randall Wright and Wayne Tate.
Since 2003, Buck Trouble Trollie in the three franchise Trollies Radio Show, Where will my feet take me today? and Wiggly World.
Since August 5, 2003, Buck Trouble Trollie in PBS WNPT’s longest running musical sketch-comedy Trollies Radio Show. Sam as his role of Buck in the debut Halloween direct-to-video film Trollies All New Musical Halloween Adventure (2003) and since his debut season on TV, Sam as role of Buck in the third season of Trollies Radio Show that he first appeared on November 23, 2003.
Discography
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| 1996 | Sam Tate sings West Side Story | Epic Records | Album debut |
| 1997 | Yak Bak Tunes 2 | Only Yak Bak album | |
| 1998 | Sam | Peter Pan Records | |
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Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1985 | A Chorus Line | Charlie Hall | Film debut |
| 1985–1988 | The Tate Sisters Show | Himself | |
| 1986 | Melba Huber’s World | Himself | Episode: Melba Huber meets The Boy Named Sam |
| 1988 | Mystery Magical Special | Buck | TV special |
| 1988 | Odd Fellows | Freddie | |
| 1989–2000 | Tate Town | Himself | |
| 1995 | The Puzzle Place | Himself | 2 episodes
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| 1996–1998 | Yak Bak | Sam | Main role (Seasons 2–4) |
| 1996 | The Foot | Simon Sackville/The Foot | |
| 1997 | Diary of a Tap Dancer | Simon | |
| The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo | Freddie Tate/The Ghost of Freddie Tate | Episode: The Macbeth Mystery | |
| 2000 | Diary of a Tap Dancer 2 | Simon | |
| 2001 | Big | Student (Buck) | |
| 2002 | Bride of the Mask | Jeter | |
| Diary of a Tap Dancer 3 | Simon | ||
| 2002 | Arthur | Singer (uncredited) | Episode: Muffy Goes Metropolitan |
| 2003–present | Trollies | Buck Trollie | |
| 2003–2007 | The Wiggles World Show | Buck Trollie (2003–present), Various Roles | Seasons 3–7 |
| 2003–present | Wiggly World Variety Show | Buck Trollie (2003–present), Various Roles | |
| 2003–2010 | My Friends Tigger and Pooh | Donnie | Voice role |
| 2003–present | Bananas in Pyjamas | Buck Trollie (2003–present), Various Roles | |
| 2003 | Aida | Ensemble | |
| Trollies All New Musical Halloween Adventure | Buck Trollie | ||
| Trollies All New Musical Halloween Adventure | Buck Trollie | Video game | |
| Wish Fairies | Buck Trollie | ||
| 2003 | Aida | Ensemble | Uncredited |
| Paris, France | Ensemble | Uncredited | |
| Rugrats | Jimmy Kelly | Episode: A Rugrat Musical Adventure (voice role) | |
| 2004–present | Backyardigans | Buck Trollie (2003–present), Various Roles | |
| 2004 | High Spirits | Ghost | Uncredited |
| 2004–present | Blythe Richardson | Bucky Mercury | Guest role |
| 2004 | Singing Time | Buck Trollie | |
| Trollies Christmas Sing-Along | Buck Trollie | ||
| 2006 | Bumping and a-Jumping | Buck Trollie, Penguin (voice) | |
| 2006 | Happy Feet | Chinstrap penguin | Voice role |
| 2008 | Sweet Smell of Success | Club Zanzibar Singer | |
| 2009 | Dadnapped | Elvis |
