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Theatrical roles of Sir Henry Irving

Sir Henry Irving (born John Henry Brodribb, 6 Feb. 1838, Keinton Mandeville, Somerset, England–13 Oct. 1905, Bradford, Yorkshire) was one of the most celebrated English stage actors of his day. The leading interpreter and producer of Shakespearean plays, his professional partnership with actress Ellen Terry was one of the most famous in the history of English stage and lasted 24 years. He was also a theatre manager and managed the London Lyceum for over two decades. He was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1895, the first actor to receive such an honour, and this was to give theatre a respectable status.

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#	Play Title	Role
Lyceum Theatre, Sunderland; Theatre Royal, Edinburgh and Queen's Theatre and Operetta House, Edinburgh: 29 September 1856 to 13 September 1859
1	The Advocate's Daughter	Herbert
2	All That Glitters IS Not Gold	Sir Arthur Lassel, Stephen Plum, Jasper Plum
3	The Anchor of Hope	Richard Hargrave
4	An Hour at Seville	Peregrine Pyefinch
5	The Artist's Wife	Lord Welford
6	Asmodeus	Ferdinand, Count Medora
7	As You Like It	Sylvius, Orlando
8	The Avalanche	General Duclos
9	The Balance of Comfort	Mr. Torrington
10	Barney the Baron	Augustus
11	The Bashful Irishman	Pester
12	Bathing	John Beauchamp
13	The Battle of the Inch	M'Kay, M'Intosh
14	The Bay of Biscay	Tom Tunnell
15	Betsy Baker	Mr. Crummy
16	The Beulah Spy	Beauchamp
17	The Birthplace of Podgers	Edmund Earlybird
18	Black Eyed Susan	Seaweed, Lieutenant Pyke, Captain Crosstree
19	A Blighted Being	Ned Spanker
20	The Blind Boy	Prince Rodolph
21	The Boarding School	Lieutenant Varley, Captain Harcourt
22	The Bohemians	Paul Didier
23	Book III, Chap. I	Edmond de Mailly
24	The Bonnie Fishwife	Wildoates Heartycheer
25	Boots at the Swan	Henry Higgins, Frank Friskly
26	Born to Good Luck	Count Manfredi
27	The Bottle Imp	Albert
28	The Bride of Lammermoor	Captain Craigengelt
29	A Bright To-Morrow	Philip
30	The British Legion	Colonel Davenport
31	The Cabin Boy	Vincent
32	The Cagot; or, Heart to Heart	Antoine
33	The Carpenter of Rouen	De Saubigné
34	The Castle Spectre	Earl Percy
35	Catching an Heiress	Captain Killingly, Captain Poodle
36	Catherine and Petruchio	Hortensio, Biondello
37	Charles XII	King Charles
38	The Charming Polly	Nat Nowlan
39	Clari, The Maid of Milan	Duke Vivaldi
40	Conrad and Medora (pantomime)	Yussuf
41	The Corsican Brothers	Alfred Meynard, Baron de Montgiron
42	Cramond Brig	Tarn Maxwell, James Birkie, King James
43	The Creole	Alphonse de Nyon
44	The Cricket on the Hearth	Gruff Tackleton
45	The Critic	Dangle
46	The Crown Prince	Frederick Storke, Francis
47	The Custom of the Country	Frank
48	Cymbeline	Pisanio
49	Daddy Hardacre	Adolphus Jobling
50	The Dancing Barber	Alfred Fitzfrolic, Lord Mincington
51	David Copperfield	David Copperfield
52	The Day After the Wedding	Colonel Freelove, Lord Rivers
53	Deaf as a Post	Captain Templeton
54	Diamond Cut Diamond	Captain Seymour
55	Dombey and Son	Mr. Dombey
56	Dominique the Deserter	Count D'Anville
57	Don Caesar de Bazan	Don José
58	Don Giovanni (extravaganza)	Octavio
59	Don't judge by Appearances	Frank Topham
60	Double Dummy	John Timpkins
61	Douglas	Lord Randolph
62	The Drapery Question	Mr. Ogler
63	The Dream at Sea	Richard Penderell
64	Dred	Clayton
65	The Drunkard's Doom	Rudolphus
66	The Dumb Maid of Genoa	Count Corvenio, Antonio, Strapado
67	The Dumb Man of Manchester	Mr. Palmerston
68	Ella Rosenberg	Colonel Mountfort
69	The Enchanted Lake (extravaganza)	A Cook
70	Esmeralda	Claude Frollo
71	The Eton Boy	Captain Popham
72	Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining	Charles Digit
73	The Evil Genius	Walmesley
74	Extremes	Frank Hawthorn
75	The Fairy Circle	Philip Blake
76	The Falls of Clyde	Kenmure
77	A Fascinating lndividual	Captain Thompson
78	Fazio	Philario
79	The Fire Raiser	Piers Talbot
80	The Flowers of the Forest	Linton, Leybourne, Captain Laverock, Alfred, Ishmael
81	The Flying Dutchman	Lieutenant Mowbray, Toby Varnish
82	The Fortunes of Nigel	Lord Dalgarno
83	Forty and Fifty	Altamont
84	The Foundling of the Forest	Baron Longueville
85	Frankenstein	Prince of Piombino
86	Fraud and Its Victims	Count de Valmore, Alfred Seabourne
87	Frederick of Prussia	Captain Niddermannersteinchwanchoingen
88	Ici on Parle Français (French Before Breakfast)	Victor Dubois
89	The French Spy	Didier
90	The Gaberlunzie Man	The Organist
91	The Gamester	Bates
92	The Gentle Shepherd	Sir William Worthey
93	Gilderoy	Carbine, Sergeant Musqueton, Gilderoy
94	The Gipsy Farmer	Luke Hatfield
95	Giralda	Don Manuel
96	Good for Nothing	Charley, Young Mr. Simpson, Harry Collier
97	The Governor's Wife	The Governor of Surinam
98	Grandfather Whitehead	Langley
99	The Green Bushes	Ned Keogh, George O'Kennedy
100	The Green Hills of the Far West	Marston
101	Guy Mannering	Henry Bertram, Dirk Hatterick, Colonel Mannering
102	Gwynneth Vaughan	Evan Pritchard
103	Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh	Cyril Baliol
104	Hamlet	Guildenstern, Horatio, Claudius The Priest, The Ghost, Osric, Laertes
105	The Happiest Day of My Life	Charles
106	A Hard Struggle	Fergus Graham
107	Handy Andy	Mr. Furlong
108	The Heart of Midlothian	Black Frank, Duke of Argyll, Reuben Butler
109	Helping Hands	Lord Quaverley
110	High Life Below Stairs	Philip
111	His Last Legs	Charles
112	Honesty is the Best Policy	Captain Lejoyeux
113	The Honeymoon	Lampedo, Lopez
114	The Hunchback	Lord Tinsel, Sir Thomas Clifford
115	The Hunter of the Alps	Marco
116	Hunting a Turtle	Smatter
117	Ida May	Kelly
118	The Idiot Witness	Earl of Sussex
119	Ingomar	Lykon, Myron
120	The Invincibles	Captain Florville
121	Ireland As It Was	Connor, M. Voyage
122	Irish-A-Honey	Malden
123	Irish Assurance	Captain Herbert
124	The Irish Emigrant	Henry Travers
125	The Irish Lion	Mackenzie, Captain Dixon
126	The Irish Post	George Lane
127	The Irish Tiger	Sir Charles Lavender
128	The Irish Tutor	Charles
129	The Iron Chest	Armstrong, Orson
130	Isabelle	Coquin
131	Ivanhoe	Sir Reginald Frondebouef
132	Jack Robinson and His Monkey	José Rimiero
133	The Jacobite	Sir Richard Wroughton
134	Jane Shore	Belmont
135	Janet Pride	George Heriot, Counsel for the prosecution
136	The Jersey Girl	Dumouchard
136	Jessy Vere	Sigismund Fanshawe
138	Joan of Arc	Florine
139	John Overy	Baron Fitzjeffrey, Mayfly
140	Kenilworth (burlesque)	Wayland Smith
141	King Henry VIII	Earl of Surrey
142	King John	Philip Faulconbridge, King of France
143	King Lear	Curan
144	The King of the Peacocks (extravaganza)	Franquille
145	King Rene' s Daughter	Sir Almeric
146	The King's Musketeers	Athos
147	The King's Wager	Colonel Vane
148	The Knight of Arva	Due de Charbonnes
149	The Ladies' Battle	Gustave de Grignon
150	The Ladies' Club	Sir Charles Lavender, Mr. Bookly
151	The Lady of Lyons	Second Officer, Gervais, Beauseant, Claude Melnotte
152	The Lady of the Lake	Malcolm Graeme
153	The Lamplighter	Philip Arnold
154	The Last Man	Henry Wentworth
155	The Laughing Hyena	Simon Hornblower
156	Like and Unlike	Louis
157	Little Bo-Peep (pantomime)	Scruncher (The Wolf)
158	Little Dorrit	Sparkler
159	The Little Treasure	Sir Charles Howard, Captain Waiter Maydenblush
160	The Loan of a Lover	Captain Amersfort
161	London Assurance	Charles Courtly, Dazzle
162	The Lonely Man of the Ocean	Wyndham Bowyer
163	Lord Darnley	Lord Darnley, Earl Lumley, Will Eliott
164	The Lost Husband	Lorain
165	The Lost Ship	Ned Martin
166	The Lottery Ticket	Charles
167	Louis XI	Tristan, Coitier
168	Love	Ulrick
169	The Love Chase	Neville, Master Waller
170	Lucille	André
171	Luke the Labourer	Squire Chase, Charles Maydew
172	Macbeth	Seyton, Rosse, Banquo, Macduff
173	The Maid and the Magpie (burlesque)	Fernando, Villabella
174	The Maid With the Milking Pail	Algernon
175	The Man of the World	Egerton
176	The Man With the Carpet Bag	Wrangle
177	The Man With the Iron Mask	D'Aubigné
178	Marianne the Vivandière	Gaston de Montclar
179	Marie Antoinette	Count de Provence
180	Marie Ducange	Markland
181	The Marble Heart	Frederick de Courcy
182	Marriage A Lottery	Herbert Manifest
183	Married Life	Frederick Younghusband, Lionel Lynx
184	Mary, Queen of Scots	Lord Lyndsay, Jasper Drysdale
185	Masaniello (burlesque)	Selva
186	Masks and Faces	Snarl, Soaper
187	Matteo Falcone	Brozzo, Gianetto, Sampiero
188	The May Queen	Secretary Sampson
189	Medea	Jason
190	Memoirs of the Devil	De Ferney
191	Memorandums in the Red Book	Count de Cerny
192	Mephistopheles (extravaganza)	Marquis de Brancador
193	The Merchant of Venice	Salarino, Bassanio
194	Michel Erle	Phillip D'Arville
195	Midas (burlesque)	Jupiter
196	The Middle Temple	Briefless
197	The Middy Ashore	Mr. Tonnish
198	The Midnight Watch	Antoine Deval
199	The Miller of Whetstone	Fabian Leslie
200	The Miller's Maid	George
201	The Milliners' Holiday	Lieutenant Bowling
202	Mind Your Own Business	Mowbray
203	Mischief Making	Henri Desgrais
204	The Momentous Question	James Greenfield
205	Money	Captain Dudley Smooth
206	Mother and Child are Doing Well	Maxwell
207	Mr. and Mrs. Pringle	John Brush
208	The Muleteer of Toledo	Don Pedro
209	Music Hath Charms	Adrien
210	My Aunt's Husband	Captain Touchwood
211	My Poll and My Partner Joe	Oakheart
212	My Precious Betsy	Langford
213	The Mysterious Stranger	Captain Gasconade
214	My Wife's Mother	Edward Waverley
215	The Nervous Man	Captain Burnish
216	Nicholas Nickleby	Nicholas, Mantellini
217	No. 1 Round the Corner	Flipper
218	Norah Creina	Ned O'Grady
219	Not A Bad Judge	Marquis de Treval
220	Not To Be Done	Jonas Downeywag
221	Nothing Venture, Nothing Win	Duke of Vendome
222	An Object of Interest	Sydenham Simmerton
223	The Ocean of Life	Hal Harsfield
224	The Old Gentleman	Charles Benedict
225	Old Joe and Young Joe	Frederick
226	Oliver Twist	Monks, Leeford
227	The Orphan of Glencoe	Colonel Campbell
228	Othello	Messenger, Montana, Cassio
229	Our Gal	Henry Seymour
230	Our Mary Anne	Colonel Albert
231	Our Wife	The Marquis de Ligny
232	Paddy Miles' s Boy	Henry
233	The Padlock	Leander
234	The Patrician's Daughter	Lister
235	Paul Pry	Harry Stanley
236	Perdita; or, The Royal Milkmaid (burlesque)	Camillo
237	Perfection	Charles Paragon
238	Perourou, The Bellows Mender	Felix Raymond
239	Peter Bell, The Waggoner	Dubois
240	The Pilot	Lieutenant Griffiths, Captain Manson, The Pilot
241	A Pleasant Neighbour	Sir George
242	Plot and Passion	Berthier, M. de Cevennes
243	Pluto and Proserpine (burlesque)	Minos
244	A Poor Girl's Temptation	Walter Warren
245	The Porter's Knot	Augustus Burr
246	P.P.; or The Man and the Tiger	Lieutenant Fusile, Mr. Somerhill
247	Prince Charles Edward Stuart	Prince Charles
248	A Prince for an Hour	Colonel Pazzi
249	Puss in Boots (pantomime)	An Ogre, A Demon
250	Quake, Shake and Simon	Bolding
251	Queen Mary's Bower	Lieutenant Wentworth
252	Raby Rattler	Frank Floss
253	The Ragpicker of Paris	Count St. Fruilan, Baron Hoffman
254	Raymond and Agnes	Raymond, Jacques
255	The Rendezvous	Bolding
256	The Rent Day	Toby Heywood
257	The Revenge	Carlos
258	The Review	Captain Beaugard
259	Richard III	Catesby, Henry VI, Richmond
260	Richelieu	Due d'Orléans, Louis XIII
261	The Rifle Brigade	Captain Nugent
262	The Rival Pages	Marquis de Preville
263	The Rivals	Fag, Faulkland, Captain Absolute
264	Robert Macaire	Charles Dumont
265	Robert The Bruce	Comyn
266	Robinson Crusoe	Jack Wind
267	Rob Roy	Francis Osbaldiston, Rashleigh Osbaldiston, Rob Roy
268	A Roland for an Oliver	The Gamekeeper, Alfred Highflyer
269	Romeo and Juliet	Paris, Tybalt
270	Rory O'More	De Lacy
271	Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife	Alonzo, The Duke
272	Rural Felicity	Unit
273	Saint Clair of the Isles	Roskelyn
274	St. Mary's Eve	Robert Vaughan
275	St. Patrick's Eve	Francis, Baron Trenck
276	Samuel in Search of Himself	Samuel
277	Sandy McDonald	Harry Frampton
278	The Scholar	Frederick
279	The School for Scandal	Careless
280	The Secret	Dupuis
281	Self Accusation	Luke Brandon
282	The Sentinel	Prince
283	The Serious Family	Frank Vincent
284	She Stoops to Conquer	Jeremy
285	Shocking Events	Captain Spoff
286	The Siamese Twins	Captain Vivid
287	Simpson and Co.	Mr. Bromley
288	Single Life	Charles Chester, Narcissus Boss
289	Sixteen String Jack	Horace Mordaunt
290	The Slave	Somerdyke
291	The Sleeping Beauty (pantomime)	Venoma [a female part]
292	The Soldier's Daughter	Young Malfort, Frank Heartall
293	Somebody Else	Hans Moritz
294	La Somnambula (burlesque)	Count Rodolpho
295	The Somnambulist	M. de Rosembert
296	The Son of the Night	Count D'Orbani
297	The Spectre Bridegroom	Captain Vauntington, Mr. Nicodemus
298	The Spitalfields Weaver	Darville
299	The Spitfire	Captain Shortcut
300	The Spoiled Child	Tagg
301	Spring Gardens	Lord Lovel
302	State Secrets	Calverton Hall
303	Still Waters Run Deep	Dunbilk
304	The Stranger	Count Wintersen, Francis
305	Susan Hopley	Andrew Hopley
306	Sweethearts and Wives	Sandford, Charles Franklin
307	The Taming of the Shrew	Hortensio, Biondello, Petruchio
308	Teddy the Tiler	Henry
309	Therese; or, The Orphan of Geneva	Fontaine
310	Time Tries All	Charles Clinton, Matthew Bates
311	Tom Cringle	Alfred, Mat Ironhand
312	The Toodles	George Acorn, Fenton
313	The Trumpeter's Daughter	Philliput
314	'Twas I	Delorme
315	The Two Gregories	John Bull
316	The Vagrant	Maillard
317	Victims	Herbert Fitzherbert
318	Victorine	Macaire
319	The Virginia Mummy	Charles
320	Virginius	Appius Claudius, Soldier
321	Wallace: The Hero of Scotland	Monteith
322	The Wandering Boys	Gregoire, Comte de Croissy, Roland
323	Wanted 1,000 Milliners	Tom Tipton
324	Warlock of the Glen	Clanronald
325	The Water Witches	Charles Chester
326	Where There's a Will	Don Lopez, Don Scipio
327	The Widow's Victim	Mr. Twitter
328	The Wife: A Tale of Mantua	Count Florio, Leonardo Gonzago
329	William Tell	Michael, Gessler
330	The Winter's Tale	Cleomenes, The Third Gentleman, Florizel
331	The Woman Hater	Frederick
332	The Wonder	Frederick
333	The Wraith of the Lake	Charles Alison
334	The Wreck Ashore	Walter Barnard
335	The Writing on the Wall	Sir Philip Eaton, Richard Oliver
336	The Young Mother	Frank Melrose
337	The Young Scamp	Arthur
338	Your Life's in Danger	Krakwitz
Page 2 \| Page 3 Sources Brereton, A. The Life of Henry Irving, vols. 1-2. London, etc.: Longman's, Green and Co., 1908. Irving, L. Henry Irving: The Actor and His World. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1952.

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