Sam Weller (character) Sam Weller (character) Sam Weller is a fictional character in "The Pickwick Papers", the first novel by Charles Dickens, and is the character that made Dickens famous. Weller first appeared in the tenth serialised episode. Previously the monthly parts of the book had been doing badly—the humour of the character transformed the book into a publishing phenomenon. Weller's way of quoting people has led to the wellerism, often a type of proverb. In chapter 10 of the novel, the eponymous hero Mr. Pickwick meets Sam Weller working at the White Hart Inn in The Borough and soon takes him on
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