Richard Hurst (actor)
Richard Hurst was a British stage actor.
He appeared in a number of London and provincial theatres during a lengthy career. From 1765 to 1780 he was a member of the Drury Lane company under the management of David Garrick and then Richard Brinsley Sheridan. In 1769 he appeared in Garrick's The Jubilee, a celebration of William Shakespeare.
Selected roles
- Tigranes in Zenobia by Arthur Murphy
- Sidasco in Zingis by Alexander Dow
- Arcas in The Grecian Daughter by Arthur Murphy
- Corea in Braganza by Robert Jephson
- Raymond in The Battle of Hastings by Richard Cumberland
- Asciano in The Law of Lombardy by Robert Jephson