Samuel "Sam" Wilder is a character in the 1998 television series, Charmed. He was Patty Halliwell's whitelighter and former lover, the biological father of Paige Matthews, and the grandfather of Kat, Tamora, and Henry Mitchell Jr.
Biography[]
Initially, in 1999, Sam came to Patty's three oldest daughters and helped them vanquish the Water Demon that killed their mother. However, in the attack, Sam was mortally wounded as he sacrificed himself to vanquish the creature with Prue's help. Subsequentially, Sam was reunited with Patty in the Afterlife.
However, Sam was a Whitelighter again, once separated from Patty and abandoned his duty after losing a charge, becoming a drunk. During this time, his daughter with Patty was assigned to be his first Charge by the Elders to get Sam back on his feet. Subsequentially, he finally met Paige and helped heal her from a Darklighter wounding her.
He later helped his daughter and her half-sisters in their fight against Neena, the first witch. By this point, he had become a father-in-law of Henry Mitchell and learned he had become a Grandfather through their daughters, Kat and Tamora and their son Henry Mitchell Jr.