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

Trail of the Vigilantes

Texas Stagecoach

The Great Plane Robbery

The Story of Dr. Jenner

Black Jack

Hot Cargo

The Man from the Rio Grande

Raiders of the Desert

Law and Order

Passport to Alcatraz

Mutiny on the Blackhawk

Ship Cafe

Captain of the Guard

Daredevil's Reward

Sins of the Fathers

Turkish Delight

The Grapes of Wrath

East of Eden

The World and the Flesh

Two Tickets to London

Mutiny in the Arctic

King of the Royal Mounted

The Marshal Of Mesa City

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Red River

Fortunes of Captain Blood

Mutiny on the Bounty

The Soldier and the Lady

They Met in Bombay

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

Scarlet Dawn

The Sea Hawk

Destry Rides Again

The Last Command

Singapore Woman

Captain Blood

The Pearl of Death

The White Angel

Les Misérables

The Marauders

Trail of the Mounties

You Only Live Once

The Wolf Man

Fugitive from Sonora

The Spider Woman

Phantom Lady