Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward

Acting

Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward

Born 1938-08-21 · South Carolina, USA

Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward is an American performer who began acting at the Wild West amusement park, Maggie Valley, North Carolina. Coward got the role as the toothless mountain man in the film "Deliverance" when Burt Reynolds remembered him from working together at the park early in his career.

Acting credits

Deliverance poster
7.3

Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

Deliverance

1972

La Classe américaine poster
7.6

George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery. (Sixteen French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)

La Classe américaine

1993

Deliverance Reunion poster
NR

43 years since the release of the film "Deliverance" by John Boorman, based on the novel by James Dickey, Herbert "Cowboy" Coward and Billy Redden meet again. Herbert was 32 and Billy 13 when the film was recorded at the Cahulawassee River, Georgia. Herbert was "Toothless man" and Billy played the banjo. Billy lives in Clayton, GA and Herbert outside Canton, NC. The action takes place in Canton, North Carolina.

Deliverance Reunion

2014

Ghost Town: The Movie poster
4.2

An 1800’s western set in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. It’s a story of love, hate, revenge, honor. It showcases the most famous villains of all time from John Boorman’s “Deliverance” filmed in 1972. Voted number one movie villains of all time in “Maxim Magazine”, 2005, Bill McKinney and Herbert “Cowboy” Coward scared audiences with their mountain man delivery that struck fear in millions of movie goers. They were reunited in this film after 37 years.

Ghost Town: The Movie

2008