Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward
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Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward is an actor who starred in the seminal 1972 thriller Deliverance.
He started acting at the Wild West Show called 'Ghost Town in the Sky' in Maggie Valley, North Carolina. He played the part of 'Grandpappy', who came to town to avenge his son's death. Coward got the role as the murderous mountain man in Deliverance when Burt Reynolds remembered him from working together in that show. Coward turned up for the audition looking so much like a hillbilly that director John Boorman, who had had trouble finding an actor for the part, thought Reynolds had told him how to dress.
When Boorman explained to him that one of the things his character was going to do was to rape a man, Coward replied, 'I've done worse'.
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- According to the IMDB, he will be reprising his famous role of Harmon Teaster in the film adaptation of Ghost Town in 2007. It will be only his second film role and his first in 34 years. Former co-star Bill McKinney from Deliverance will play the role of Victor Burnett.
