John Whitfield

John Whitfield (1752–1814) was a British stage actor.

He was part of the Covent Garden and Drury Lane companies, playing over two hundred roles. He often appeared alongside his wife Mary Whitfield.

Selected roles Agenor in Cleonice, Princess of Bithynia by John Hoole (1775) Edric in Percy by Hannah More (1777) Sir Henry Lovewit in Know Your Own Mind by Arthur Murphy (1777) Earl of Surrey in Alfred by John Home (1778) Villers in The Belle's Stratagem by Hannah Cowley (1780) Don Garcia in A Bold Stroke for a Husband by Hannah Cowley (1783) Camillo in Julia by Robert Jephson (1787) Nicrates in The Fate of Sparta by Hannah Cowley (1788) De Courcy in The Haunted Tower by James Cobb (1789) Lupercio in Marcella by William Hayley (1789) Woodville in The Wheel of Fortune by Richard Cumberland (1795) Redwald in Edwy and Elgiva by Fanny Burney (1795) Wortimerus in Vortigern and Rowena by William Henry Ireland (1796) Earling in False Impressions by Richard Cumberland (1797) Delville in Laugh When You Can by Frederick Reynolds (1798) Sir Henry Netterville in The Eccentric Lover by Richard Cumberland (1798) Malcour in Folly as it Flies by Frederick Reynolds (1801) Melchior in Alfonso, King of Castile by Matthew Lewis (1801)