John Hippisley (actor)

Hippisley as Sir Francis Gripe in The Busie Body

John Hippisley (14 January 1696 – 12 February 1748)[1] was an English comic actor and playwright. He appeared at Lincoln's Inn Fields and Covent Garden in London, and was the original Peachum in The Beggar's Opera. He opened a theatre in Bristol, the Jacobs Well Theatre, where he and his daughter Elizabeth Hippisley appeared.

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