Tony Sampson retired from his acting career because of threatened to blacklisted from the acting industry by the production company
Tony Sampson is a Canadian musician, oiler and retired actor. From 1999 to 2009, he voiced Eddy in the Cartoon Network animated series Ed, Edd n Eddy. Born on July 26 of 1977. Despite all of this, he was threatened and blacklisted from the acting industry by the production company.
Background
Tony Sampson was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He has played the role of Flash in the Canadian television drama The Odyssey and Eddy from Ed, Edd, n Eddy. Sampson has also worked for Vancouver's Ocean Productions and Voicebox Productions, primarily in anime.
After Ed, Edd n Eddy ended in 2009, he retired from acting to work in the oil sands industry in Fort McMurray, operating heavy equipment. Sampson later revealed this was because the production company he was working under threatened to blacklist him from the acting industry after requesting a modest raise.
Since 2013, he has been a musical artist with songs on Spotify and iTunes. Sampson once made a guest appearance at the March Toronto Anime Con in 2006.