John Hayman Packer
John Hayman Packer was an actor for David Garrick's company at Drury Lane. Originally a saddler, he created the character Freeman in James Townley's High Life Below Stairs. His parts were usually minor and, late in life, "as a rule" old men in tragedies and sentimental comedies.
Selected roles
- Freeman in High Life Below Stairs by James Townley
- Lucius in The Siege of Aquileia by John Home
- Young Bellmont in All in the Wrong by Arthur Murphy
- Don Roderigo in Elvira by David Mallet
- Wellford in The Dupe by Frances Sheridan
- Sir John Lambert in The Hypocrite by Isaac Bickerstaffe
- Aunac in Zingis by Alexander Dow
- Zopiron in Zenobia by Arthur Murphy
- Captain Dudley in The West Indian by Richard Cumberland
- Greek Herald in The Grecian Daughter by Arthur Murphy
- Doctor Goodman in The Maid of Kent by Francis Godolphin Waldron
- Otanes in Sethona by Alexander Dow
- Stalpleton in The Choleric Man by Richard Cumberland
- Ramirez in Braganza by Robert Jephson
- Rinaldo in The Law of Lombardy by Robert Jephson
- Ali in The Fair Circassian by Samuel Jackson Pratt
- Thestor in The Royal Suppliants by John Delap
- Marlow in The Metamorphosis by William Jackson
- Gyfford in The Carmelite by Richard Cumberland
- Duke of Genoa in Julia by Robert Jephson
- Medley in The New Peerage by Harriet Lee
- Gerbin in The Regent by Bertie Greatheed
- Davison in Mary, Queen of Scots by John St John
- Archon in The Rival Sisters by Arthur Murphy
- Millden in The Wedding Day by Elizabeth Inchbald
- Leofric in Edwy and Elgiva by Fanny Burney
- David Duncan in The Last of the Family by Richard Cumberland
- Allan in The Castle Spectre by Matthew Gregory Lewis
- Old Copsley in The Will by Frederick Reynolds
- Blaise in The Castle of Montval by Thomas Sedgwick Whalley
- Prior in Julian and Agnes by William Sotheby