Lyn Harding

Acting

Lyn Harding

Born 1876-10-12 · St Brides Wentlooge, Wales, UK

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lyn Harding,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Goodbye, Mr. Chips poster
7.4

Throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of Brookfield School, with his life and career shaped by his love for his wife and his unwavering dedication to his students.

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

1939

The Man Who Changed His Mind poster
6.1

Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming ... a mad scientist, almost unstoppable.

The Man Who Changed His Mind

1936

Fire Over England poster
6.2

In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, British sea raiders such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish merchantmen, bringing gold from the New World.

Fire Over England

1937

The Pearls of the Crown poster
6.5

The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing.

The Pearls of the Crown

1937

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7.0

This film is a caper story of greyhound racing and the efforts of a crooked dog owner to stop a rival's dog, Wild Boy, from running in the Greyhound Derby.

Wild Boy

1934

Knight Without Armour poster
5.9

In the last days of Czarist Russia, Russian-speaking Briton A.J. Fothergill is enlisted by his government to go undercover as Bolshevik radical Peter Ouranoff in an attempt to gain access to the revolutionaries' inner circle. Tasked with accompanying lovely aristocrat Alexandra Vladinoff from Moscow to Petrograd to be tried for crimes against the proletariat, Peter attempts to spirit her out of the war-torn country.

Knight Without Armour

1937

Silver Blaze poster
5.7

Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he's got to find Professor Moriarty and the horse Silver Blaze before the great cup final horse race.

Silver Blaze

1937

Escape Me Never poster
6.0

Romantic quadrangle involving two brothers, one a burgeoning ballet composer; a willful heiress; and a waif.

Escape Me Never

1935

Yolanda poster
8.0

The backdrop is fifteenth century France, and Charles, Duke of Burgundy has promised his daughter, Princess Mary, that she can marry the man she loves, Prince Maximilian of Styria. But when the Swiss threaten war, the duke is compelled to take back his word and he arranges for Mary to wed the half-witted dauphin of France's King Louis XI .

Yolanda

1924

Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant poster
9.0

'Shanghai. Lieutenant escapes from spies and regains stolen plans.' (British Film Catalogue)

Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant

1928

The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes poster
5.4

Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country gentleman with a mysterious past. Holmes' methods baffle Watson and Lestrade, but his results astonish them. In a long flashback, the victim's wife tells the story of the sinister Vermissa Valley.

The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes

1935

The Invader poster
4.0

A bumbling yachtsman sails to the South of Spain with a fiery seductress, only to become the pawn in her dangerous game of love.

The Invader

1936

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8.0

A girl saves her fiancé's stabiliser plans from spies.

Land of Hope and Glory

1927

The Prime Minister poster
6.5

A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and confidante of Queen Victoria.

The Prime Minister

1941

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7.0

British crime film directed by Henry Edwards

The Barton Mystery

1932

The Speckled Band poster
5.8

After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.

The Speckled Band

1931

When Knighthood Was in Flower poster
5.8

Mary Tudor falls in love with a new arrival to court, Charles Brandon. She convinces her brother King Henry VIII to make him his Captain of the Guard. Meanwhile, Henry is determined to marry her off to the aging King Louis XII of France as part of a peace agreement.

When Knighthood Was in Flower

1922

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9.0

Second of three versions of Margaret Kennedy’s novel about a sickly, sensitive Belgian schoolgirl, Tessa (Victoria Hopper), in love with world-famous composer Lewis Dodd (Brian Aherne), who marries her wealthy cousin Florence (Leonora Corbett). Undermining the already delicate Tessa’s health, the composer realises that life without Tessa is unbearable and leaves his unloving wife – but sadly too late.

The Constant Nymph

1933

The Mutiny Of The Elsinore poster
9.0

The story of a surly crew, an honest God-fearing captain, a hardboiled-but-loyal Scotch mate, a scoundrelly second-mate, and then a mutiny, the fight and the final voyage to a safe harbor. But not before the Captain has been murdered, his pretty daughter in peril, her rescue by the single passenger on board, and a member of the crew thrown overboard by another crew member.

The Mutiny Of The Elsinore

1938

The Man Who Changed His Name poster
7.5

A young woman begins to suspect that her wealthy, respectable husband may be an escaped Canadian murderer.

The Man Who Changed His Name

1934

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7.0

One of John Mills' earliest roles as a wastrel playboy.

The Lash

1934

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8.0

27 well-to-do people have all vanished under similar circumstances. J.G. Reeder, an elderly gentleman who fancies himself a detective, decides to investigate the matter.

The Missing People

1939

Sleeping Partners poster
9.0

A neglected wife spends the night with a roué after drinking a sleeping draught.

Sleeping Partners

1930

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NR

Backstage, Lyn Harding prepares for his role as Svengali; a brief montage of several scenes from the play at Apollo Theater is shown. Presented as part of Eve's Film Review issue #56.

Moments from "Trilby"

1922