Career Highlights: Bang! You're Dead, Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday, Friday the 13th
First Major Screen Credit: The Ring (1927)
Biography
In films from 1927, British comic actor Gordon Harker had to wait for the advent of sound to take full advantage of his eternal air of cockney belligerence. Perhaps because his cinematic career was launched by director Alfred Hitchcock, Harker seemed to pop up in every other mystery film produced in England between 1930 and 1945, sometimes as intrusive comedy relief, sometimes as a red-herring suspect. Among his more notable film credits were Rome Express (1932), Inspector Hornleigh (1940) and Saloon Bar. Gordon Harker's last film was the 1958 political satire Left, Right and Centre. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Gordon Harker (7 August 1885 – 2 March 1967) was an English film actor. He appeared in 68 films between 1921 and 1959, including three films directed by Alfred Hitchcock and a cameo appearance in Elstree Calling (1930), a revue film co-directed by Hitchcock. He was noted for his performance as Inspector Hornleigh in a trilogy of films produced between 1938 and 1940.