Samuel Reddish
Samuel Reddish was a theatre manager and an actor in England. He made a reputation with Mossop's company in Smock Alley, Dublin in the seasons of 1761-2 and appeared at Drury Lane, London, 1767, where he remained during ten seasons; acted at Covent Garden, London, 1778, but lost his reason, 1779; he died a lunatic at York asylum on 31 December 1785.
Selected roles
- Fred Melmoth in The Widowed Wife by William Kenrick
- Lord Winworth in False Delicacy by Hugh Kelly
- Zemouca in Zingis by Alexander Dow
- Darnley in The Hypocrite by Isaac Bickerstaffe
- Frampton in The School for Rakes by Elizabeth Griffith
- Orellan in The Fatal Discovery by John Home
- Sir John Dormer in A Word to the Wise by Hugh Kelly
- Philotus in The Grecian Daughter by Arthur Murphy
- Tyrell in The Fashionable Lover by Richard Cumberland
- Alonzo in Alonzo by John Home
- Charles Manlove in The Choleric Man by Richard Cumberland
- Menes in Sethona by Alexander Dow
- Charles Manlove in The Choleric Man by Richard Cumberland
- Duke in Braganza by Robert Jephson