David Llewellyn Harding Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Lyn Harding (12 October 1867 – 26 December 1952) (real name David Llewellyn Harding) was a Welsh actor who spent 40 years on the stage before entering British made silent films, talkies and radio. He had an imposing and menacing stage presence and came to be cast as the villain in many films, notably Professor Moriarty in dramatisations of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Although ignored by his parents, he often visited his place of birth, where he was well known as Dai Bach (Welsh for "Little David").
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Member of the Congregationalist Church at St Brides Wentlooge.
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Parents are buried in the grounds of Providence.
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Parents expected him to be a preacher and were shocked by his turning to the stage. After seeing him perform his father said, "I have been in hell tonight.".
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Mother was Elizabeth Harries, great granddaughter of the same reverend gentleman. Mother and father were thus cousins.
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Father was Richard Harding, grandson of the Welsh preacher the Rev. Issac Morgan Harries of St Brides Wentlooge.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Prime Minister
1941
Bismarck (uncredited)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1939
Wetherby
The Missing People
1939
Joseph Bronstone
I, Claudius
1937
Vespasian
Mutiny on the Elsinore
1937
Mr. Pike
Murder at the Baskervilles
1937
Professor Moriarty
Knight Without Armor
1937
Bargee
The Pearls of the Crown
1937
L'officier du roi (English narrator) / Le roi Henry VIII