
Harry Cording
Biography
Hector William “Harry” Cording was a British character actor. Cording was brought up and educated in his native England, and later settled permanently in Los Angeles, where he began a film career in 1925. He appeared in many Hollywood films from then to the 1950s. With an imposing six-foot height and stocky build, Harry the Henchman usually portrayed thugs, villains' henchmen and policemen. Cording's most notable roles were probably as the villainous Dickon Malbete, Captain of the Guard in Errol Flynn's Adventures of Robin Hood and as Thamal, the hulking henchman to Bela Lugosi's character in 1934's Black Cat. As a contract player at Universal Pictures in the 1940s, he turned up in tiny parts in many of their horror films, such as The Wolf Man. Having appeared in a bit role in 20th Century-Fox's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes starring Basil Rathbone (1939), he went on to appear in supporting and bit parts in seven of the twelve Universal Studios Sherlock Holmes films in which Rathbone starred.
Acting (196 movies)

Cripple Creek
1952

A Woman's Vengeance
1948

The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942

Dressed to Kill
1946

Hot Cargo
1946

The Black Cat
1934

The House of Fear
1945

The Pearl of Death
1944

The Wolf Man
1941

The House of the Seven Gables
1940

The Invisible Man Returns
1940

Killer Leopard
1954

Man in the Attic
1953

Daredevil's Reward
1928

The Prince and the Pauper
1937

The Big Trees
1952

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
1944

Against All Flags
1952

The Sea Ghost
1931

Crime School
1938

Captain Blood
1935

The Strange Door
1951

The Black Shield of Falworth
1954

Peter Ibbetson
1935

The Iroquois Trail
1950

The Patriot
1928

Fortunes of Captain Blood
1950

They Met in Bombay
1941

Two Tickets to London
1943

The Fatal Witness
1945

Law and Order
1953

Road to Bali
1953

Captain Pirate
1952

King Richard and the Crusaders
1954

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942

Titanic
1953

Sea Devils
1937

Bluebeard
1944

Ambush at Tomahawk Gap
1953

Night Stage to Galveston
1952

Buccaneer's Girl
1950

Sweepings
1933

The Squall
1929

Captured!
1933

Daniel Boone
1936

The Great Alaskan Mystery
1944

Sons of Liberty
1939

Al Jennings of Oklahoma
1951

Narcotic
1933

Bride of the Regiment
1930

Charlie Chan in Paris
1935

New Moon
1930

Rough Romance
1930

Last of the Buccaneers
1950

Captain of the Guard
1930

The Intruder
1933

Strange Wives
1934

Calcutta
1946

Rawhide Rangers
1941

Sutter's Gold
1936

The Moon Is Down
1943

The Mummy's Tomb
1942

That Lady in Ermine
1948

Phantom Lady
1944

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1953

The White Angel
1936

Fool's Gold
1946

Devil's Island
1939

Stand Up and Fight
1939

Son of Frankenstein
1939

Sirocco
1951

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939

Arizona Legion
1939

The Sun Never Sets
1939

Tower of London
1939

We Are Not Alone
1939

We Live Again
1934

Each Dawn I Die
1939

Mutiny on the Blackhawk
1939

Stage to Chino
1940

Destry Rides Again
1939

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939

The Light That Failed
1939

The Marshal Of Mesa City
1939

Night Beat
1931

Heart of the North
1938

King of the Royal Mounted
1940

Texas Stagecoach
1940

The Grapes of Wrath
1940

Fugitive from Sonora
1943

The Country Doctor
1936

East of Eden
1955

The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
1940

Little Old New York
1940

Valley of the Giants
1938

The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938

Jungle Gents
1954

Mutiny on the Bounty
1935

Law and Order
1940
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