
Sammy Johnson
Acting
May 14, 1949
Died November 1, 1998 (49 years old)
Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
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Acting Credits
Biography
Born Ronald Samuel Johnson, Sammy Johnson (14th May 1949 to November 1998) was an English actor best known for the role of Stick in Spender. A close friend of Jimmy Nail, this was just one of the many programmes they co-starred in together (the others being Crocodile Shoes and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet). He also appeared in an adaptation of Catherine Cookson's The Gambling Man, and as Viz's famous comic book character Sid the Sexist, as well as the 1985 film Seacoal, 1989's And a Nightingale Sang, th...
Known For
Filmography

Full Fat
2026
as Kevin

Lost In France
1998
as Terry Rudd

King Leek
1997
as Popeye

The Gambling Man
1995
6.3

Crocodile Shoes
1994
7.3

Wycliffe
1994
as Adrian Wright
6.8

Spender : The French Collection
1993
as Kenneth Norman 'Stick' Oakley

Sid the Sexist
1992
as Sidney Smutt
7.5

Spender
1991
as Stick
7.3

And a Nightingale Sang
1989
as Shipyard Worker
5.2

In Fading Light
1989
as Dandy Mac
6

Seacoal
1985
as Ronnie
6

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
1983
as Martin Cooper
7.9

The Happy Hunting Ground
1976
as Ron
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