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Harry Locke

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Harry Locke
in On the Fiddle (1961)
Born(1912-12-10)10 December 1912
London, England
Died7 September 1987(1987-09-07) (aged 73)
London, England
OccupationActor

Harry Locke (10 December 1912 – 7 September 1987) was an English character actor.[1]

Life and career

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He was born in London. He began acting in his teens, and appeared with the Questors Theatre Company in Ealing from 1936, when known as Lionel Locke.[2] From 1940, he served in the military, but returned to acting after demobilisation. He married, and lived in South Leigh, Oxfordshire, where he became friends with poet and playwright Dylan Thomas. Their friendship was described by Locke in a 1970s interview with the radio journalist Colin Edwards.[3]

Locke was a familiar face in three decades of British cinema, playing small parts such as assorted cockneys, working men, clerks, porters and cab drivers, with appearances including George in Civvy Street (1946), Passport to Pimlico (1949), Reach for the Sky (1956), Carry On Nurse (1959), The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964), Alfie (1966), The Family Way (1966), and The Creeping Flesh (1973).[4][5]

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.[4]

He married Joan Cowderoy in 1943, and Cordelia Sewell in 1952.

Selected filmography

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References

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  1. ↑ "Harry Locke". BFI. Archived from the original on 4 August 2012.
  2. ↑ Cyrus Andrews (ed.), Radio Who's Who, Pendulum Publications Ltd., 1947, pp.206-207
  3. ↑ D.N.Thomas (2004) Dylan Remembered 1935-1953 vol. 2, Seren
  4. 1 2 Robert Ross, Forgotten Heroes of Comedy, Unbound Press, London, 2021, isbn 978-1-78352-918-6, pp.328-329
  5. ↑ "Harry Locke movies, photos, movie reviews, filmography, and biography - AllMovie". AllMovie.
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