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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 cockneys, working men, clerks, porters and cab drivers, with appearances including Passport to Pimlico (1949), Reach for the Sky (1956), Carry On Nurse (1959), The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964), Alfie (1966) and The Family Way (1966).^[3]

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.

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