Richard Diggs (actor)
# Richard Diggs (actor)

Richard Diggs (died 1727) was a British stage actor.

He was a member of the Dury Lane company before 1718, when he switched to join John Rich's company at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre and remained there until his death.

## Selected roles

* Leander in The Coquet by Charles Molloy (1718)
* Rosny in Henry IV of France by Charles Beckingham (1719)
* Narbal in The Imperial Captives by John Mottley (1720)
* Truelove in Hob's Wedding by John Leigh (1720)
* Cleartes in Antiochus by John Mottley (1721)
* Arcas in Love and Duty by John Sturmy (1722)
* Galloper in The Compromise by John Sturmy (1722)
* Morvid in Edwin by George Jeffreys (1724)
* Vitiges in Belisarius by William Phillips (1724)
* Sharper in The Bath Unmasked by Gabriel Odingsells (1725)
* Governor of Tangier in Money the Mistress by Thomas Southerne (1726)
* Lychormas in The Fall of Saguntum by Philip Frowde (1727)
