page_title: Samuel Johnson (comedian)
section_title: Last years
hierarchical_section_title: Samuel Johnson (comedian) / Last years
caption_attribution_description: English: The Haymarket Theatre in 2008. Use freely, but please attribute K. B. Thompson
context_page_description: Samuel Johnson was an actor-manager and Shakespearean actor of the 19th century and a member of Henry Irving's Company at the Lyceum Theatre, for which he played the comedy roles.
context_section_description: In February 1899 Johnson played Mr. Stryver in The Only Way, again at the Lyceum Theatre but now under John Martin-Harvey as manager. Not feeling in the best of health, Johnson decided not to join the sixth Lyceum tour to America, appearing instead in his last role as Meester van Speenen in The Black Tulip with Cyril Maude and Winifred Emery at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in a production that ran for 77 performances and which closed on 6 January 1900.
  A heavy drinker, Johnson died of cirrhosis of the liver on 15 February 1900 at 29, Weltje Road in Hammersmith in London.
caption: Johnson's last performance was at the Theatre Royal Haymarket weeks before his death.
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