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.
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Movies (48)
East of Eden
as Bouncer (uncredited)
1955
Jungle Gents
as Henchman Shanks
1954
The Black Shield of Falworth
as Captain of King's Guards (uncredited)
1954
Killer Leopard
as Supt. Saunders
1954
King Richard and the Crusaders
as Castelaine Spokesman (uncredited)
1954
Man in the Attic
as Detective Sgt. Bates
1953
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Rough Character in the Park
1953
Law and Order
as Townsman (uncredited)
1953
Ambush at Tomahawk Gap
as Stableman (uncredited)
1953
Titanic
as Boiler Room Engineer (uncredited)
1953
Treasure of the Golden Condor
as Breton (uncredited)
1953
Against All Flags
as Gow
1952
Road to Bali
as Verna’s Father (uncredited)
1952
Captain Pirate
as Col. Ramsey's Overseer (uncredited)
1952
Cripple Creek
as Hibbs (uncredited)
1952
Brave Warrior
as Shayne MacGregor
1952
Night Stage to Galveston
as Ted Driscoll
1952
The Big Trees
as Cleve Gregg
1952
The Strange Door
1951
Iron Man
as Miner (uncredited)
1951
Mask of the Avenger
as Zio d'Orsini
1951
Sirocco
as Master Sergeant (uncredited)
1951
Santa Fe
as Moose Legrande
1951
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
as Mike Bridges
1951
Last of the Buccaneers
as Brown
1950
Convicted
as Convict in Prison Yard (uncredited)
1950
The Iroquois Trail
1950
Fortunes of Captain Blood
as Will Ward
1950
Buccaneer's Girl
1950
Tyrant of the Sea
as Sampson Edwards
1950
The Secret Of St. Ives
as Innkeeper (uncredited)
1949
Red River
as Gambler (uncredited)
1948
Tap Roots
as Leader (uncredited)
1948
That Lady in Ermine
as Orlando (uncredited)
1948
13 Lead Soldiers
as Edward Vane
1948
The Black Arrow
as Guard (uncredited)
1948
A Woman's Vengeance
as Chauffeur McNabb
1948
Trail of the Mounties
as Hawkins
1947
The Exile
as Roundhead (uncredited)
1947
The Marauders
as Riker
1947
Dangerous Venture
as Morgan
1947
California
as Miner (uncredited)
1947
Calcutta
as Tea Planter (uncredited)
1946
Fool's Gold
as Duke
1946
Hot Cargo
as Matt Wayne
1946
Inside Job
as Bartender
1946
Dressed to Kill
as Hamid
1946
Devotion
as Coachman with Frightened Horses (uncredited)
1946
