John Whitfield (actor) facts for kids
John Whitfield (1752–1814) was a British stage actor.
He was part of the Covent Garden and Drury Lane companies, playing over two hundred roles. He often appeared alongside his wife Mary Whitfield.
Selected roles
- Agenor in Cleonice, Princess of Bithynia by John Hoole (1775)
- Edric in Percy by Hannah More (1777)
- Sir Henry Lovewit in Known Your Own Mind by Arthur Murphy (1777)
- Earl of Surrey in Alfred by John Home (1778)
- Don Garcia in A Bold Stroke for a Husband by Hannah Cowley (1783)
- Camillo in Julia by Robert Jephson (1787)
- Nicrates in The Fate of Sparta by Hannah Cowley (1788)
- De Courcy in The Haunted Tower by James Cobb (1789)
- Lupercio in Marcella by William Hayley (1789)
- Wortimerus in Vortigern and Rowena by William Henry Ireland (1796)
- Earling in False Impressions by Richard Cumberland (1797)
- Sir Henry Netterville in The Eccentric Lover by Richard Cumberland (1798)
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