Benjamin Johnson

For other people named Benjamin Johnson, see Benjamin Johnson (disambiguation).

Benjamin Johnson (c. 1665-1742) was an English actor.

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Johnson 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 (1696), Captain Fireball in George Farquhar's Sir Harry Wildair (1701) and Sable in Richard Steele's Funeral (1702); 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.[1]

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  1. ↑  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Johnson, Benjamin". Encyclopædia Britannica 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.



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