Samuel Reddish (1735–1785) 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 Drury Lane is a street on the boundary between the Covent Garden and Holborn areas of London, running between Aldwych and High Holborn. The northern part is in the borough of London Borough of Camden, Camden and the southern part in the City o ...

, London, 1767, where he remained during ten seasons; acted at

Covent Garden Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. It is associated with the former fruit-and-vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist sit ...

, 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 (1767) * Lord Winworth in '' False Delicacy'' by Hugh Kelly (1768) * Zemouca in '' Zingis'' by

Alexander Dow Alexander Dow (1735 or 1736 – 31 July 1779) was a Scottish Orientalist, writer, playwright and army officer in the East India Company. Life He was a native of Crieff, Perthshire. Alexander Dow's father worked at the Customs at Dunbar. The yo ...

(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 Alonzo is both a given name and a Spanish language, Spanish surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Alonzo de Barcena, 16th-century Spanish Jesuit missionary and linguist *Alonzo de Santa Cruz (–1567), Spanish cartographer, ...

'' by John Home (1773) * Charles Manlove in '' The Choleric Man'' by Richard Cumberland (1774) * Menes in '' Sethona'' by

(1774) * Charles Manlove in '' The Choleric Man'' by Richard Cumberland (1774) * Duke in '' Braganza'' by Robert Jephson (1775)

References

1735 births 1785 deaths 18th-century English male actors English male stage actors 18th-century British male actors {{England-bio-stub