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William Havard (1710?–1778), was a British actor and dramatist.

Havard appeared at Goodman's Fields Theatre, 1730–1737, and then at the Drury Lane Theatre until retirement in 1769. He generally played secondary parts; depreciated in Rosciad. He also appeared in his own plays, King Charles I at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1737; Regulus Drury Lane, 1744; and The Elopement Drury Lane, 1763.

Selected roles

  • Montesini in The Parricide (1736)
  • Rosebrand in The Independent Patriot (1737)
  • Talthybius in Agamemnon (1738)
  • Hartly in The Coffee House (1738)
  • Achmet in Mustapha (1739)
  • Young Freeman in Love the Cause and Cure of Grief (1743)
  • Decius in Regulus (1744)
  • Young Whimsey in The Astrologer (1744)
  • Rodolpho in Tancred and Sigismunda (1745)
  • Captain Loveit in Miss in Her Teens (1747)
  • Bellamy in The Suspicious Husband (1747)
  • Colonel Raymond in The Foundling (1748)
  • Abdalla, An Officer in Irene (1749)
  • Arnold in Edward the Black Prince (1750)
  • Amphares in Agis (1758)
  • Timurkan in The Orphan of China (1759)
  • Megistus in Zenobia (1768)
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