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William Hamilton (actor)

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His activities are unclear for a while after this, but as an adult he no longer performed with his brother. It is likely the same William Hamilton who performed in
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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800: Garrick to Gyngell
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his later years are unknown. It is possible he was still alive in 1805, and one report had him supported in his final years by his niece.
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in 1749 and then became part of the Smock Alley company between 1749 and 1758. From 1766 he was back in London where he appeared at the
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in London as a child actor. They continued to appear together in London at the
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Highfill, Philip H, Burnim, Kalman A. & Langhans, Edward A.
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until 1739 when they returned with their parents to
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was an Irish stage actor of the eighteenth century.
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Sarah Hamilton
Anna Marcella Giffard
Goodman's Fields Theatre
Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Dublin
Smock Alley Theatre
Edinburgh
King's Theatre
Samuel Foote
Haymarket Theatre
Tony Lumpkin
Oliver Goldsmith
She Stoops to Conquer
Belfast
King Charles I
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