John Fawcett was an English

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 actor

Actor

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 and playwright

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He was the son of an actor of the same name

John Fawcett senior (actor)

John Fawcett was an actor who played at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane as well as in Dublin and on several occasions at the Theatre Royal in Richmond. He is best known today for having fathered a rather more famous actor of the same name....

 (d. 1793). At the age of eighteen he ran away from school and appeared at Margate

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 as Courtall in The Belles Stratagem; afterwards he joined Tate Wilkinson

Tate Wilkinson

Tate Wilkinson , English actor and manager, was the son of a clergyman.His first attempts at acting were badly received, and it was to his wonderful gift of mimicry that he owed his success. His imitations, however, naturally gave offence to the important actors and managers whose peculiarities he...

's company and turned from tragedy to low comedy parts. In 1791, he appeared at Covent Garden

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, and in 1794 at the Haymarket

Haymarket Theatre

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. Colman

George Colman the Younger

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, then manager of that house, wrote a number of parts designed to suit his talents, and two of Fawcett's greatest successes were as Dr. Pangloss in The Heir at Law (1797) and as Dr Ollapod in The Poor Gentleman (1798). He retired from the stage in 1830.