Charles Williams (English actor) explained

Charles Williams (1693–1731) was a British stage actor.^[1]

Williams joined the company at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1718 and remained with it to his death in the year of his 38th birthday.^[2]

Selected roles

• Lorenzo in Love in a Veil by Richard Savage (1718)
• Herbis in The Siege of Damascus by John Hughes (1720)
• Alan in The Briton by Ambrose Philips (1722)
• Earl of Warwick in Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester by Ambrose Philips (1723)
• Ammon in The Fatal Constancy by Hildebrand Jacob (1723)
• Duke Frederick in Love in a Forest by Charles Johnson (1723)
• Araxes in The Captives by John Gay (1724)
• Decius in Caesar in Egypt by Colley Cibber (1724)
• Julio in Double Falsehood by Lewis Theobald (1727)
• Amyntas in Love in a Riddle by Colley Cibber (1729)
• Freeman in The Village Opera by Charles Johnson (1729)
• Scipio in Sophonisba by James Thomson (1730)
• Dinarchus in Timoleon by Benjamin Martyn (1730)

Bibliography

• Brean, Hammond (ed.) Double Falsehood. AC & Black, 2010.
• 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: West to Zwingman. SIU Press, 1973.

Notes and References

1. Highfill, Burnim & Langhans p.137
2. Brean p.173