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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