John Ward (actor), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Ward (actor)

english actor, born 1704

Date of Birth: 24-Jun-1704

Place of Birth: England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 30-Oct-1773

Profession: actor, theater director

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

John Ward (24 June 1704 – 30 October 1773) was an English actor and theatre manager.
The founder of the Warwickshire Company of Comedians – a Birmingham-based theatre company who toured throughout the West Midlands and into Wales during the mid to late eighteenth century – he was the first of the Kemble family theatrical dynasty, whose most notable member was his granddaughter Sarah Siddons.
Ward was the first recorded performer of a Shakespearian play in Stratford-upon-Avon, and is also notable as the author of the two earliest surviving prompt books of Shakespeare's Hamlet, which reveal how the play was performed in eighteenth century England and also throw light on earlier practice.



Alternative names	thos. beach; thos beach; T. Beech; Beech; T. Beach; Beach
Description	English portrait painter
Date of birth/death	1738	17 December 1806
Location of birth/death	Dorset	Dorchester
Authority control	: Q2422324 VIAF: 31924395 ISNI: 0000 0000 6705 4661 ULAN: 500020632 LCCN: nr2001024487 WGA: BEACH, Thomas WorldCat