John Thurmond

{{Short description|British stage actor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''John Thurmond''' (died 1727) was a British stage actor. To distinguish him from his son, also an actor named John, he is sometimes called '''John Thurmond the Elder'''.

His earliest known stage performance was in 1695, when he played in ''Cyrus the Great'' with Thomas Betterton's troupe at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre. Around 1699 he joined the Smock Alley Theatre where he acted alongside his wife Winifred. By 1708 he was back in London with the Drury Lane Theatre. He died on 7 September 1727 the same night he had been due to appear in ''Othello''. He was buried in St Paul's, Covent Garden, alongside his wife Winifred who died in 1736.<ref>Highfill, Burnim & Langhans p.431</ref>

==Selected roles== * Artabasus in ''Cyrus the Great'' by John Banks (1695) * Frederick in ''The She-Gallants'' by George Granville (1695) * Friendly in ''The City Bride'' by Joseph Harris (1696) * Rodrigo in ''The Italian Husband'' by Edward Ravenscroft (1697) * Bellgard in ''Fatal Friendship'' by Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1698) * Ubaldo in ''Rinaldo and Armida'' by John Dennis (1698) * Sir James Thyrrold in ''Queen Catharine'' by Mary Pix (1698) * Lord Courtipell in ''The Pretenders'' by Thomas Dilke (1698) * Cleontes in ''Xerxes'' by Colley Cibber (1699) * Spinola in ''The Princess of Parma'' by Henry Smith (1699) * Lorenzo in ''False Friend'' by Mary Pix (1699) * Belvoir in ''The Beau Defeated'' by Mary Pix (1700) * Hamlet in ''Hamlet'' by William Shakespeare (1708) * Honorius in ''Lucius'' by Delarivier Manley (1717) * Don Philip in ''Love in a Veil'' by Richard Savage (1718) * Syphoces in ''Busiris, King of Egypt'' by Edward Young (1719) * Abudah in ''The Siege of Damascus'' by John Hughes (1720) * Don Alverez in ''The Revenge'' by Edward Young (1721) * Didius in ''The Briton'' by Ambrose Philips (1722) * Oliver in ''Love in a Forest'' by Charles Johnson (1723) * Earl of Salisbury in ''Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester'' by Ambrose Philips (1723) * Second Centurion in ''Caesar in Egypt'' by Colley Cibber (1724) * Maelaines in ''Hecuba'' by Richard West (1726)

==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 14''. SIU Press, 1991.

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