Gordon Harker

{{Short description|English film actor (1885–1967)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Gordon Harker

| image = Actor_Gordon_Harker.jpg

| birth_date = {{birth date|1885|8|7|df=y}}

| birth_place = Wandsworth, London, England

| birth_name = William Gordon Harker

| death_date = {{death date and age|1967|3|2|1885|8|7|df=y}}

| death_place = London, England

| yearsactive = 1902–1959

| occupation = Actor

| father = Joseph Harker

| mother = Sarah Elizabeth Hall

}}

William Gordon Harker (7 August 1885 – 2 March 1967) was an English stage and film actor.

Harker was one of the sons of Sarah Elizabeth Harker, née Hall, (1856–1927), and Joseph Harker (1855–1927), a much admired set painter for the theatre for whom the Dracula character Jonathan Harker was named.[http://camoupedia.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/joseph-harker-dracula-meets-camouflage.html Joseph Harker | Dracula Meets Camouflage]

Harker had a long career on the stage, from 1902 to the 1950s. In addition, he appeared in 68 films between 1921 and 1959, including three silent films directed by Alfred Hitchcock and in several scenes in Elstree Calling (1930), a revue film co-directed by Hitchcock. He was known for his performance as Inspector Hornleigh in a trilogy of films produced between 1938 and 1940, as well in Saloon Bar (1940), based on the stage play he had starred in and another one of his stage successes The Poltergeist made into the film Things Happen at Night (1947), a poltergeist comedy he co-starred in with Alfred Drayton and Robertson Hare. His last major screen role was as the wily waiter Albert in the 1957 motion picture version of Small Hotel.{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9f41545f|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120711161530/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9f41545f|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-11|title=Gordon Harker|work=BFI}}{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/artist/gordon-harker-p30421|title=Gordon Harker movies, photos, movie reviews, filmography, and biography - AllMovie|work=AllMovie}}{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/463253/|title=BFI Screenonline: Harker, Gordon (1885-1967) Biography|work=screenonline.org.uk}}{{cite web|url=http://www.britmovie.co.uk/actors/Gordon-Harker|title=Gordon Harker|work=britmovie.co.uk|access-date=29 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809204538/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/actors/Gordon-Harker|archive-date=9 August 2014|url-status=dead}}