{{Short description|British stage actor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Roger Bridgewater''' (died 1754) was a British stage actor of the eighteenth century.<ref>''The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama'' p.XXXIX</ref> He worked as party of the Drury Lane company for many years, specialising in dramatic roles, before switching to Covent Garden in 1734. In later years he frequently played Falstaff.

==Selected roles== * Earl of Northumberland in ''Sir Thomas Overbury'' by Richard Savage (1723) * Captain Gaylove in ''A Wife to be Lett'' by Eliza Haywood (1723) * Orbasius in ''The Captives'' by John Gay (1724) * Ulysses in ''Hecuba'' by Richard West (1726) * Count Basset in ''The Provoked Husband'' by Colley Cibber (1728) * Malvil in ''Love in Several Masques'' by Henry Fielding (1728) * Timophanes in ''Timoleon'' by Benjamin Martyn (1730) * Lord Briton in ''Bayes's Opera'' by Gabriel Odingsells (1730) * Shamwell in ''The Humours of Oxford'' by James Miller (1730) * Laelius in ''Sophonisba'' by James Thomson (1730) * Athelwold in ''Athelwold'' by Aaron Hill (1731) * Thorowgood in ''The London Merchant'' by George Lillo (1731) * Leonidas in ''Eurydice'' by David Mallet (1731) * Lovemore in ''Caelia'' by Charles Johnson (1732) * Modern in ''The Modern Husband'' by Henry Fielding (1732) * Pierrot in ''Timon in Love'' by John Kelly (1733) *Frederick in ''The Miser'' by Henry Fielding (1733) * Squire Trelooby in ''The Cornish Squire'' by James Ralph (1734) * Modern in ''The Rival Widows'' by Elizabeth Cooper (1735) * Trueman in The Prodigal Reform’d by Hildebrand Jacob (1738) * Sir Jasper Fragile in The Trial of Conjugal Love by Hildebrand Jacob (1738) * Strictland in ''The Suspicious Husband'' by Benjamin Hoadly (1747)

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==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: Garrick to Gyngell''. SIU Press, 1978. * Straub, Kristina, G. Anderson, Misty and O'Quinn, Daniel . ''The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama''. Taylor & Francis, 2017.

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Category:18th-century British male actors Category:Year of birth unknown Category:1754 deaths

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