Benjamin Johnson
Actor, Deceased Person
1665 – 1742
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Who was Benjamin Johnson?
Benjamin Johnson 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, Captain Fireball in George Farquhar's Sir Harry Wildair and Sable in Richard Steele's Funeral; 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.
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