Richard Hurst (actor)

Richard Hurst (died 1805) was a British stage actor.

He appeared in a number of London and provincial theatres during a lengthy career. From 1765 to 1780 he was a member of the Drury Lane company under the management of David Garrick and then Richard Brinsley Sheridan. In 1769 he appeared in Garrick's The Jubilee, a celebration of William Shakespeare.

Selected roles

 * Tigranes in Zenobia by Arthur Murphy (1768)
 * Sidasco in Zingis by Alexander Dow (1768)
 * Arcas in The Grecian Daughter by Arthur Murphy (1772)
 * Corea in Braganza by Robert Jephson (1775)
 * Raymond in The Battle of Hastings by Richard Cumberland (1778)
 * Asciano in The Law of Lombardy by Robert Jephson (1779)