John Whitfield (actor)

John Whitfield (1752–1814) was a British stage actor.

He was part of the Covent Garden and Drury Lane companies, playing over two hundred roles. He often appeared alongside his wife Mary Whitfield.

Selected roles

 * Agenor in Cleonice, Princess of Bithynia by John Hoole (1775)
 * Edric in Percy by Hannah More (1777)
 * Sir Henry Lovewit in Know Your Own Mind by Arthur Murphy (1777)
 * Earl of Surrey in Alfred by John Home (1778)
 * Villers in The Belle's Stratagem by Hannah Cowley (1780)
 * Don Garcia in A Bold Stroke for a Husband by Hannah Cowley (1783)
 * Camillo in Julia by Robert Jephson (1787)
 * Nicrates in The Fate of Sparta by Hannah Cowley (1788)
 * De Courcy in The Haunted Tower by James Cobb (1789)
 * Lupercio in Marcella by William Hayley (1789)
 * Woodville in The Wheel of Fortune by Richard Cumberland (1795)
 * Redwald in Edwy and Elgiva by Fanny Burney (1795)
 * Wortimerus in Vortigern and Rowena by William Henry Ireland (1796)
 * Earling in False Impressions by Richard Cumberland (1797)
 * Delville in Laugh When You Can by Frederick Reynolds (1798)
 * Sir Henry Netterville in The Eccentric Lover by Richard Cumberland (1798)
 * Malcour in Folly as it Flies by Frederick Reynolds (1801)
 * Melchior in Alfonso, King of Castile by Matthew Lewis (1801)