William Havard (actor)

William Havard (c. 1710 – 1778), was a British actor and dramatist.

Havard appeared at Goodman's Fields Theatre, 1730–1737, and then at the Drury Lane Theatre until retirement in 1769. He generally played secondary parts; depreciated in Rosciad. He also appeared in his own plays, King Charles I at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1737; Regulus Drury Lane, 1744; and The Elopement Drury Lane, 1763.

Selected roles

 * Montesini in The Parricide (1736)
 * Rosebrand in The Independent Patriot (1737)
 * Talthybius in Agamemnon (1738)
 * Hartly in The Coffee House (1738)
 * Achmet in Mustapha (1739)
 * Young Freeman in Love the Cause and Cure of Grief (1743)
 * Decius in Regulus (1744)
 * Young Whimsey in The Astrologer (1744)
 * Rodolpho in Tancred and Sigismunda (1745)
 * Captain Loveit in Miss in Her Teens (1747)
 * Bellamy in The Suspicious Husband (1747)
 * Colonel Raymond in The Foundling (1748)
 * Abdalla, An Officer in Irene (1749)
 * Arnold in Edward the Black Prince (1750)
 * Amphares in Agis (1758)
 * Timurkan in The Orphan of China (1759)
 * Friendly in The Dupe (1763)
 * Megistus in Zenobia (1768)