Christopher Bullock (actor)
Christopher Bullock (1690–1722) was a British
Bullock was the son of the actor
Bullock married the actress Jane Rogers in 1717, with whom he had three children. Between 1715 and 1718 he also authored severals plays, mainly farces, beginning with an afterpiece The Slip. His sole attempt at a tragedy was The Traitor.[3] In 1720 he relinquished his management role at Lincoln's Inn but continued to act there. Increasingly in ill health from consumption he made his final appearance in a revival of Thomas Otway's The Soldier's Fortune on 9 January 1722 appearing alongside his wife and father in the cast. He died several months later on 5 April and was buried in Hampstead.
Selected roles
- Appletree in The Recruiting Officer (1707)
- Whisper in The Busie Body (1709)
- Chevalier in The City Ramble (1711)
- Hazard in The Wife's Relief (1711)
- Sergeant Dolt in The Successful Pyrate (1712)
- Merit in The Wife of Bath (1713)
- Euribartes in The Victim (1714)
- Fondlewife in The Old Bachelor (1715)
- Sir Timothy Twiddle in The Doating Lovers (1715)
- Vizard in A Woman's Revenge (1715)
- Welby in The Northern Heiress (1716)
- Snuffle in The Cobbler of Preston (1716)
- Sir Amorous Vainwit in Woman Is a Riddle (1716)
- Le Bronze in The Coquet (1718)
- Colonel Fainwell in A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718)
- Cosmo in The Traitor (1718)
- Bardach in Kensington Gardens (1719)
- Nuncio in Henry IV of France (1719)
- Gundamor in Sir Walter Raleigh (1719)
- Meagre in The Half-Pay Officers (1720)
- Ned Indolent in Whig and Tory (1720)
- Sir Davy in The Soldier's Fortune (1722)
References
Bibliography
- Highfill, Philip H, Burnim, Kalman A. & Langhans, Edward A. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Garrick to Gyngell. SIU Press, 1978.
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