Dudley has been an actor since 1957, appearing in dozens of films, plays, musicals and TV shows. He also writes and performs comic verse and political poems and songs with linking biographical tales, for Glastonbury, via Edinburgh, and festivals and venues throughout the land. Recently he has appeared in the seminal film The Football Factory; Love, The Musical at the Lyric Hammersmith; Romeo And Her Juliet at Bristol Old Vic; God Don’t Live On A Council Estate for Tap Theatre, New Cross Gate and he has just finished filming Cockneys Versus Zombies in the East End of London. At 78, he still feels as if he is just starting out.

His work in theatre includes Room on the Broom in the West End, USA and Dubai tour for Tall Stories; Salome for Headlong and Eric’s for Liverpool/Everyman Playhouse. Television includes Doctors for the BBC; The Bill for Talk Back Thames; What Makes Us Human? for Tiger Aspect and Brookside for Mersey Television. Sam is Artistic Director of Papatango Theatre Company and Principal of Performers Theatre School.