John Moody (1727?â€"1812), original name John Cochran, was an Irish
actor.The son of a hairdresser named Cochran, he was born in Cork, and
followed his father's occupation; his own account was that he was born
in Stanhope Street, Clare Market, London. To the end of his life he
claimed to be a Londoner. Perhaps to avoid being a forced recruit at
the time of the Jacobite rising of 1745, he went to Jamaica.Returning
to England as Moody, with some property and acting experience, he went
on the Norwich circuit. He took the lead in both tragedy and comedy.
Tate Wilkinson claimed to have been, 20 June 1759, at Portsmouth, Lord
Townly in The Provoked Husband (John Vanburgh and Colley Cibber) to
Moody's Manly, with Moody having just arrived from Jamaica.Hired by
David Garrick for Drury Lane, on 31 October 1759 Moody was the
original Kingston in High Life Below Stairs, and on 12 February 1760
created his major character of Sir Callaghan O'Brallaghan in Charles
Macklin's Love à la Mode.
actor.The son of a hairdresser named Cochran, he was born in Cork, and
followed his father's occupation; his own account was that he was born
in Stanhope Street, Clare Market, London. To the end of his life he
claimed to be a Londoner. Perhaps to avoid being a forced recruit at
the time of the Jacobite rising of 1745, he went to Jamaica.Returning
to England as Moody, with some property and acting experience, he went
on the Norwich circuit. He took the lead in both tragedy and comedy.
Tate Wilkinson claimed to have been, 20 June 1759, at Portsmouth, Lord
Townly in The Provoked Husband (John Vanburgh and Colley Cibber) to
Moody's Manly, with Moody having just arrived from Jamaica.Hired by
David Garrick for Drury Lane, on 31 October 1759 Moody was the
original Kingston in High Life Below Stairs, and on 12 February 1760
created his major character of Sir Callaghan O'Brallaghan in Charles
Macklin's Love à la Mode.
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