John Hayman Packer

John Hayman Packer (12 March 1730 – 16 September 1806) was an actor for David Garrick's company at Drury Lane. Originally a saddler, he created the character Freeman in James Townley's High Life Below Stairs (1759). His parts were usually minor and, late in life, "as a rule" old men in tragedies and sentimental comedies.

Selected roles

 * Freeman in High Life Below Stairs by James Townley (1759)
 * Lucius in The Siege of Aquileia by John Home (1760)
 * Young Bellmont in All in the Wrong by Arthur Murphy (1761)
 * Don Roderigo in Elvira by David Mallet (1763)
 * Wellford in The Dupe by Frances Sheridan (1763)
 * Sir John Lambert in The Hypocrite by Isaac Bickerstaffe (1768)
 * Aunac in Zingis by Alexander Dow (1768)
 * Zopiron in Zenobia by Arthur Murphy (1768)
 * Captain Dudley in The West Indian by Richard Cumberland (1771)
 * Greek Herald in The Grecian Daughter by Arthur Murphy (1772)
 * Doctor Goodman in The Maid of Kent by Francis Godolphin Waldron (1773)
 * Otanes in Sethona by Alexander Dow (1774)
 * Stalpleton in The Choleric Man by Richard Cumberland (1774)
 * Ramirez in Braganza by Robert Jephson (1775)
 * Rinaldo in The Law of Lombardy by Robert Jephson (1779)
 * Ali in The Fair Circassian by Samuel Jackson Pratt (1781)
 * Thestor in The Royal Suppliants by John Delap (1781)
 * Marlow in The Metamorphosis by William Jackson (1783)
 * Gyfford in The Carmelite by Richard Cumberland (1784)
 * Duke of Genoa in Julia by Robert Jephson (1787)
 * Medley in The New Peerage by Harriet Lee (1787)
 * Gerbin in The Regent by Bertie Greatheed (1788)
 * Davison in Mary, Queen of Scots by John St John (1789)
 * Archon in The Rival Sisters by Arthur Murphy (1793)
 * Millden in The Wedding Day by Elizabeth Inchbald (1794)
 * Leofric in Edwy and Elgiva by Fanny Burney (1795)
 * David Duncan in The Last of the Family by Richard Cumberland (1797)
 * Allan in The Castle Spectre by Matthew Gregory Lewis (1797)
 * Old Copsley in The Will by Frederick Reynolds (1797)
 * Blaise in The Castle of Montval by Thomas Sedgwick Whalley (1799)
 * Prior in Julian and Agnes by William Sotheby (1801)