[citation needed] Temple was born in Los Angeles, CA, where he lived until the age of nine, when his father was offered a job in Denver, CO. Four years later he moved to San Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico, then Cullowhee, NC, Santa Rosa, CA, and Goettingen, Germany before graduating from Summerfield Waldorf School in 1995.
After high school, Temple formed an a cappella group, Voicewell, and spent the following spring and summer hitchhiking through Europe.
In 2006, he returned to Los Angeles and shortly after was cast in his first feature film, Animals, with Naveen Andrews, Marc Blucas and Nicki Aycox.
In 2010 Temple was cast in Jonah Hex with Josh Brolin and went on to star in Chillerama with Joel David Moore and Kane Hodder.
[citation needed] In 2019 Vertical Entertainment released his documentary feature film, Hardball: The Girls of Summer.