With the former company, he was one of "those of principal note," according to James Wright's Historia Histrionica (1699), one of the troupe's "eminent actors."
[2] He played a series of important roles through his career, including: Robert Davenport dedicated his poem Too Late to Call Back Yesterday to Bowyer and Richard Robinson.
The Queen's Men were disrupted by a long theatre closure due to bubonic plague, which lasted from May 1636 to October 1637.
He was one of the six members of that company who were named Grooms of the Chamber on 22 January 1641, indicating that he was a sharer in the troupe by that time.
As with many actors, his fortunes passed into eclipse after the London theatres were closed in September 1642 at the start of the English Civil War.