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Robert Baddeley (1733–1794) was an English actor. His parentage is unknown, as is his place of birth, though the latter may have been London . He worked as a cook and valet, and one of his employers was the actor-manager Samuel Foote , who may have inspired him to take to the stage.
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Robert Baddeley. Robert Baddeley may refer to: Robert...
- Robert Baddeley - Wikipedia
22 de abr. de 2024 · Robert Baddeley (born c. 1732—died Nov. 20, 1794, London) was an actor chiefly remembered for his will, in which he bequeathed property to found a home for aged and impoverished actors and also money to provide wine and cake in the green room of Drury Lane Theatre on Twelfth Night, a ceremony that was still performed more than 200 ...
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Robert Baddeley (1733–1794) was an English actor. His parentage is unknown, as is his place of birth, though the latter may have been London. He worked as a cook and valet, and one of his employers was the actor-manager Samuel Foote, who may have inspired him to take to the stage.
Robert Baddeley. Robert Baddeley died on 20th November 1794. It may seem somewhat surprising that he is still remembered more than two centuries later because as an actor he played only minor roles during his thirty years at Drury Lane with Garrick and Sheridan.
ROBERT BADDELEY (c. 1732-1794), English actor, is said to have been first a cook to Samuel Foote, "the English Aristophanes," and then a valet, before he appeared on the stage. In 1761, described as "of Drury Lane theatre," he was seen at the theatre in Smock Alley, Dublin, as Gomez in Dryden's Spanish Friar.
Actor; originally a pastry cook, by 1763 he was established at Drury Lane, excelling as a low comedian. ‘With crab-apple phiz, and a brow that’s disdainful,/See Baddeley smile with fatigue that is painful;/From his dissonant voice, and the form of each feature,/You’d swear him the favorite child of Ill-nature’ (Anthony Pasquin, 1786).
