Thomas Walker (actor)

Barton Booth saw Walker in a droll, The Siege of Troy, and recommended him to the management of the Drury Lane Theatre.

[1] In November 1715 Walker seems to have played Tyrrel in Colley Cibber's Richard III; on 12 December 1715 he was Young Fashion in a revival of The Relapse (John Vanburgh).

[3] On 29 January 1728 Walker took on his major original part, Captain Macheath in the Beggar's Opera, and his reputation was established.

[1] Walker's best serious parts were thought to be Bajazet, Hotspur, Edmund, and Falconbridge; in comedy he was best received as Worthy in the Recruiting Officer, Bellmour in the Old Bachelor, and Harcourt in The Country Girl (Garrick, after Wycherley).

[1] Walker's first dramatic effort was to compressing into one play the two parts of Thomas D'Urfey's Massaniello.