Biography
Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward was an American actor best known for playing the Toothless Man, one of two mountain men, in John Boorman's 1972 film Deliverance.
He began performing as a gunfighter at the Ghost Town in the Sky Wild West amusement park in Maggie Valley, North Carolina, where he met Burt Reynolds. Reynolds later recommended him for the role in Deliverance; Coward, who had no formal acting training, was cast after an audition and performed his own stunts. He later worked for 27 years at a factory in Asheville, North Carolina.
Coward appeared in the 2007 film Ghost Town: The Movie and the 2013 television series Hillbilly Blood. He died on 24 January 2024 in a motor vehicle accident in Haywood County, North Carolina, aged 85.
