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Philip Cademan (born. 1643) was an English stage actor of the Restoration era. The son of an apothecary Thomas Cross, he adopted his stepfather's surname of Cademan after his mother remarried. In 1651 she married again this time to the playwright William Davenant, who following the return of Charles II to the throne and the reopening of theatres, brought Cademan into the newly formed Duke's Company. His first known role as Sylvio in The Duchess of Malfi in 1662. He continued acting with the company, at Lincoln's Inn Fields and then the Dorset Gardens Theatre until 1673, when he was involved in a stage accident. During a performance of he was wounded in the head with a sword during a stagefight with fellow actor Henry Harris. Unable to resume his career, he was paid a pension of thirty shi