Charles Dickens the house. The success of "Sketches by Boz" led to a proposal from publishers Chapman and Hall for Dickens to supply text to match Robert Seymour's engraved illustrations in a monthly letterpress. Seymour committed suicide after the second instalment, and Dickens, who wanted to write a connected series of sketches, hired "Phiz" to provide the engravings (which were reduced from four to two per instalment) for the story. The resulting story became "The Pickwick Papers", and though the first few episodes were not successful, the introduction of the Cockney character Sam Weller in the fourth episode (the first to be
Peter Weller Burroughs's novel "Naked Lunch" (1991). Aside from a Saturn Award nomination for his "RoboCop" role, Weller received an Academy Award nomination for his 1993 short "Partners," in which he also acted. In television, he hosted the program "Engineering an Empire" on the History Channel from 2005 to 2007. He also played Christopher Henderson in the fifth season of "24", Stan Liddy in the fifth season of the Showtime original series "Dexter", as well as Charles "Charlie" Barosky in 11 episodes in (Season 6) of Kurt Sutter 's long running "Sons of Anarchy". Since 2012, Weller has been involved in the