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Coward"s mother died when he was young meaning his father had to raise him and his siblings.
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Herbert Coward
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Early Coward began acting in the Wild West amusement park Ghost Town in the Sky in Maggie Valley, North Carolina. Coward got the role as the murderous toothless mountain man in Deliverance when Burt Reynolds remembered him from working together at the park early in his career. Coward turned up for the audition looking so much like a hillbilly that director John Boorman, who had trouble finding an actor for the part, thought Reynolds had told him what to wear.
In 2007, Coward played the role of Harmon Teaster in the film adaptation of Ghost Town.
lieutenant was only his second film role and his first in 34 years. Former co-star Bill McKinney from Deliverance played the role of Victor Burnett.
Coward has recently starred in Destination America"s Hillbilly Blood.
