John Whitfield (actor)
John Whitfield 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
- Edric in Percy by Hannah More
- Sir Henry Lovewit in Know Your Own Mind by Arthur Murphy
- Earl of Surrey in Alfred by John Home
- Villers in The Belle's Stratagem by Hannah Cowley
- Don Garcia in A Bold Stroke for a Husband by Hannah Cowley
- Camillo in Julia by Robert Jephson
- Nicrates in The Fate of Sparta by Hannah Cowley
- De Courcy in The Haunted Tower by James Cobb
- Lupercio in Marcella by William Hayley
- Woodville in The Wheel of Fortune by Richard Cumberland
- Redwald in Edwy and Elgiva by Fanny Burney
- Wortimerus in Vortigern and Rowena by William Henry Ireland
- Earling in False Impressions by Richard Cumberland
- Delville in Laugh When You Can by Frederick Reynolds
- Sir Henry Netterville in The Eccentric Lover by Richard Cumberland
- Malcour in Folly as it Flies by Frederick Reynolds
- Melchior in Alfonso, King of Castile by Matthew Lewis