Roger Bridgewater (died 1754) was a British stage actor of the eighteenth century. ^[1] 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.

Contents

• Selected roles
• References
• Bibliography

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)

References

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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