Edward Berry (actor)

{{Short description|British stage actor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Edward Berry''' (1706-1760) was a British stage actor. He was a long-standing member of the Drury Lane company, appearing frequently with David Garrick.<ref>Marshall & Kishi p.462</ref>

==Selected roles== * Hobinol in ''The Village Opera'' by Charles Johnson (1729) * Pantomine in ''Bayes's Opera'' by Gabriel Odingsells (1730) * Butler in ''The Devil to Pay'' by Charles Coffey (1731) * Gentleman in ''Caelia'' by Charles Johnson (1732) * Sparke in ''The Miser'' by Henry Fielding (1733) * Valeius Publicola in ''Junius Brutus'' by William Duncombe (1734) * Don Lopez in ''Trick for Trick'' by Robert Fabian (1735) * Osmyn in ''The Christian Hero'' by George Lillo (1735) * Chatillon in ''Zara'' by Aaron Hill (1736) * Byron in ''The Universal Passion'' by James Miller (1737) * Ceron in ''The Fatal Retirement'' by Anthony Brown (1739) * Manilus in ''Regulus'' by William Havard (1744) * Siftem in ''The Astrologer'' by James Ralph (1744) * Cardinal Perigot in ''Edward the Black Prince'' by William Shirley (1750) * Philip in ''The Brothers'' by Edward Young (1753) * Xuthus in ''Creusa, Queen of Athens'' by William Whitehead (1754)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Highfill, Philip H, Burnim, Kalman A. & Langhans, Edward A. ''A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Volume 2''. SIU Press, 1975. * Marshall, Gail & Kishi, Tetsuo. '' Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Volume 1''. Pickering & Chatto, 2008.

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