Benjamin Johnson

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Benjamin Johnson (c. 1665-1742) was an English actor.

He was first a scene painter, then acted in the provinces, and appeared in London in 1695 at Drury Lane after Thomas Betterton's defection. He was the original Captain Driver in Oronooko (1696), Captain Fireball in George Farquhar's Sir Harry Wildair (1701) and Sable in Richard Steele's Funeral (1702); he was particularly well regarded as the First Gravedigger in Hamlet and as several characters in the plays of Ben Jonson. He also succeeded to Thomas Doggett's roles.^[1]

Notes

↑ Chisholm 1911.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Johnson, Benjamin". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press

Persondata
Name	Johnson, Benjamin
Alternative names
Short description	English actor
Date of birth	1665
Place of birth
Date of death	1742
Place of death

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.