
Harry Cording
Known for ActingBorn 1891-04-25Died 1954-09-01Wellington, Somerset, England, UK
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.Read more
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Overland Mail
1942 · Movie
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Trail of the Vigilantes
1940 · Movie
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Texas Stagecoach
1940 · Movie
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The Great Plane Robbery
1940 · Movie
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The Story of Dr. Jenner
1939 · Movie
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Black Jack
1927 · Movie
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Hot Cargo
1946 · Movie
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The Man from the Rio Grande
1943 · Movie
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Raiders of the Desert
1941 · Movie
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Law and Order
1940 · Movie
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Passport to Alcatraz
1940 · Movie
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Mutiny on the Blackhawk
1939 · Movie
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Ship Cafe
1935 · Movie
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Captain of the Guard
1930 · Movie
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Daredevil's Reward
1928 · Movie
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Sins of the Fathers
1928 · Movie
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Turkish Delight
1927 · Movie
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The Grapes of Wrath
1940 · Movie
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East of Eden
1955 · Movie
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The World and the Flesh
1932 · Movie
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Two Tickets to London
1943 · Movie
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Mutiny in the Arctic
1941 · Movie
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King of the Royal Mounted
1940 · Movie
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The Marshal Of Mesa City
1939 · Movie
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938 · Movie
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Red River
1948 · Movie
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Fortunes of Captain Blood
1950 · Movie
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Mutiny on the Bounty
1935 · Movie
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The Soldier and the Lady
1937 · Movie
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They Met in Bombay
1941 · Movie
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939 · Movie
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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942 · Movie
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Scarlet Dawn
1932 · Movie
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The Sea Hawk
1940 · Movie
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Destry Rides Again
1939 · Movie
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The Last Command
1928 · Movie
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Singapore Woman
1941 · Movie
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Captain Blood
1935 · Movie
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The Pearl of Death
1944 · Movie
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The White Angel
1936 · Movie
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Les Misérables
1935 · Movie
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The Marauders
1947 · Movie
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Trail of the Mounties
1947 · Movie
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You Only Live Once
1937 · Movie
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The Wolf Man
1941 · Movie
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Fugitive from Sonora
1943 · Movie
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The Spider Woman
1943 · Movie
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Phantom Lady
1944 · Movie