Harry Locke

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Harry Locke
in On the Fiddle (1961)
Born	(1913-12-10)10 December 1913 London, England
Died	7 September 1987(1987-09-07) (aged 73) London, England

Harry Locke (10 December 1913 – 7 September 1987) was an English character actor.^[1]

He was born and died in London. He married Joan Cowderoy in 1943 and Cordelia Sewell in 1952. He was a good friend of the poet Dylan Thomas. Their friendship in London and South Leigh, Oxfordshire, has been described by Locke in a 1970s interview with the radio journalist Colin Edwards.^[2]

Locke was a familiar face in three decades of British cinema, playing small parts such as assorted

His numerous roles on TV included Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) as a night porter in 1969. In 1972 he played Platon Karataev in the BBC production of War and Peace, with his final role, playing a gardener, in an episode of Just William, in 1977.

Selected filmography

References

External links

• Harry Locke at
  IMDb
• South Leigh residents talk about Dylan Thomas