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Richard Diggs (died 1727) was a British stage actor.

He was a member of the Dury Lane company before 1718, when he switched to join John Rich's company at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre and remained there until his death.

Selected roles

  • Leander in The Coquet by Charles Molloy (1718)
  • Rosny in Henry IV of France by Charles Beckingham (1719)
  • Narbal in The Imperial Captives by John Mottley (1720)
  • Truelove in Hob's Wedding by John Leigh (1720)
  • Cleartes in Antiochus by John Mottley (1721)
  • Arcas in Love and Duty by John Sturmy (1722)
  • Galloper in The Compromise by John Sturmy (1722)
  • Morvid in Edwin by George Jeffreys (1724)
  • Vitiges in Belisarius by William Phillips (1724)
  • Sharper in The Bath Unmasked by Gabriel Odingsells (1725)
  • Governor of Tangier in Money the Mistress by Thomas Southerne (1726)
  • Lychormas in The Fall of Saguntum by Philip Frowde (1727)
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