William Havard (actor)
# William Havard (actor)

William Havard (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)
* Megistus in Zenobia (1768)
