Samuel Reddish

Samuel Reddish (1735–1785) was a theatre manager and an actor in England.^[1] He made a reputation with Mossop's company in Smock Alley, Dublin in the seasons of 1761-2^[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.^[3]

Selected roles

• Fred Melmoth in The Widowed Wife by William Kenrick (1767)
• Lord Winworth in False Delicacy by Hugh Kelly (1768)
• Zemouca in Zingis by Alexander Dow (1768)
• Darnley in The Hypocrite by Isaac Bickerstaffe (1768)
• Frampton in The School for Rakes by Elizabeth Griffith (1769)
• Orellan in The Fatal Discovery by John Home (1769)
• Sir John Dormer in A Word to the Wise by Hugh Kelly (1770)
• Philotus in The Grecian Daughter by Arthur Murphy (1772)
• Tyrell in The Fashionable Lover by Richard Cumberland (1772)
• Alonzo in Alonzo by John Home (1773)
• Charles Manlove in The Choleric Man by Richard Cumberland (1774)
• Menes in Sethona by Alexander Dow (1774)
• Charles Manlove in The Choleric Man by Richard Cumberland (1774)
• Duke in Braganza by Robert Jephson (1775)