# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lyn-harding
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:35:59.216Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lyn-harding"
name: "Lyn Harding"
slug: "lyn-harding"
description: "David Llewellyn Harding, known professionally as Lyn Harding, was a Welsh actor who spent 40 years on the stage before entering British-made silent films, talkies and radio. He had an imposing and menacing stage presence and came to be cast as the villain in many films, notably Professor Moriarty in dramatisations of the Sherlock Holmes stories."
tagline: "British actor (1867-1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mr._Lyn_Harding_LCCN2014692774_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1867-10-12"
deathDate: "1952-12-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.277538666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0362361/"
    handle:    "nm0362361"
sources:
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyn_Harding"
    title: "Lyn Harding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA"
    title: "لين هاردينغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "لين هاردينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyn_Harding"
    title: "Lyn Harding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyn_Harding"
    title: "Lyn Harding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyn_Harding"
    title: "Lyn Harding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6708323"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump