12 veteran Nollywood actors we would love to see on our TV screens again – #5 & #8 were everyone’s favorite (With Pictures)

6. Sam Dede

Nigerian movie producer and director, Sam Dedetoku was like the Al Pacino of Nollywood. He has starred in  over 30 movies and directed over 10. Any movie this man features in becomes a hit.  Blood Money and Issakabba  are two Nollywood movies that made him a hero among his folks and fans of Nollywood.

Sam is from Okrika in Rivers State and is the last born of a family of eight. He  grew up briefly in Sapele before relocating to Port Harcourt where he has lived all his life. His dad was a soldier, who fought in the civil war and was in the medical corps of the Nigerian Army before his death in 1972.  Sam was a former lecturer at the University of Lagos. Now, he lectures in the Department of Theatre Arts in the University of Port Harcourt.