Harry Cording
Biography
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Hector William "Harry" Cording (26 April 1891 – 1 September 1954) 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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1891-04-25
Place of birth
Wellington, Somerset, England, UK
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Cast
Cripple Creek
1952
5.70
A Woman's Vengeance
1948
6.31
The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942
5.84
The Secret Of St. Ives
1949
6.00
Dressed to Kill
1946
6.52
Hot Cargo
1946
0.00
The Black Cat
1934
6.68
The House of Fear
1945
6.90
The Pearl of Death
1944
7.10
The Wolf Man
1941
7.00
The House of the Seven Gables
1940
6.90
The Invisible Man Returns
1940
6.23
Killer Leopard
1954
5.00
Man in the Attic
1953
5.50
Daredevil's Reward
1928
0.00
The Prince and the Pauper
1937
6.70
The Big Trees
1952
5.60
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
1944
6.10
Against All Flags
1952
6.10
The Sea Ghost
1931
5.20
Crime School
1938
6.30
Captain Blood
1935
7.20
The Strange Door
1951
6.20
The Black Shield of Falworth
1954
6.20
Peter Ibbetson
1935
6.90
The Iroquois Trail
1950
5.80
The Patriot
1928
5.00
Fortunes of Captain Blood
1950
7.10
They Met in Bombay
1941
7.30
Two Tickets to London
1943
6.00
The Fatal Witness
1945
6.20
Law and Order
1953
4.80
Road to Bali
1953
6.30
Captain Pirate
1952
5.40
King Richard and the Crusaders
1954
6.30
Titanic
1953
6.59
Sea Devils
1937
5.70
Bluebeard
1944
5.60
Ambush at Tomahawk Gap
1953
6.50
Night Stage to Galveston
1952
4.70
Buccaneer's Girl
1950
5.60
Sweepings
1933
5.80
The Squall
1929
3.40
Captured!
1933
5.60
Daniel Boone
1936
4.90
The Great Alaskan Mystery
1944
5.00
Sons of Liberty
1939
6.00
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
1951
5.00
Narcotic
1933
3.60
Bride of the Regiment
1930
6.00
Charlie Chan in Paris
1935
6.50
Rough Romance
1930
5.00
New Moon
1930
4.30
Last of the Buccaneers
1950
5.50
Captain of the Guard
1930
0.00
The Intruder
1933
4.20
Strange Wives
1934
0.00
Calcutta
1946
6.20
Rawhide Rangers
1941
5.00
Sutter's Gold
1936
0.00
The Moon Is Down
1943
6.70
The Mummy's Tomb
1942
5.70
That Lady in Ermine
1948
5.80
Phantom Lady
1944
7.04
The White Angel
1936
8.00
Fool's Gold
1946
0.00
Devil's Island
1939
5.40
Stand Up and Fight
1939
5.80
Son of Frankenstein
1939
6.68
Sirocco
1951
5.80
Arizona Legion
1939
5.00
The Sun Never Sets
1939
4.80
Tower of London
1939
6.00
We Are Not Alone
1939
6.10
We Live Again
1934
6.50
Each Dawn I Die
1939
6.80
Mutiny on the Blackhawk
1939
0.00
Stage to Chino
1940
4.80
Destry Rides Again
1939
7.20
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939
7.31
The Light That Failed
1939
6.00
The Marshal Of Mesa City
1939
8.00
Night Beat
1931
5.50
Heart of the North
1938
3.70
King of the Royal Mounted
1940
6.00
Texas Stagecoach
1940
0.00
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
7.83
Fugitive from Sonora
1943
0.00
The Country Doctor
1936
6.00
East of Eden
1955
7.54
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
1940
6.20
Little Old New York
1940
4.00
Valley of the Giants
1938
6.00
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938
7.46
Jungle Gents
1954
4.00
Mutiny on the Bounty
1935
7.30
Law and Order
1940
0.00
Trail of the Vigilantes
1940
0.00
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
1941
5.00
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941
5.20
When the Daltons Rode
1940
6.00
Santa Fe Trail
1940
5.70
Dark Command
1940
6.30
Virginia City
1940
6.10
The World and the Flesh
1932
6.50
Scarlet Dawn
1932
6.50
The Sea Hawk
1940
7.10
Strange Cargo
1940
7.00
Dangerous Venture
1947
0.00
A Dispatch from Reuters
1940
5.70
Florian
1940
1.00
Don't You Believe It
1943
5.00
To the Last Man
1933
5.90
Road Gang
1936
6.50
Christina
1929
0.00
The Girl in 419
1933
4.30
Brave Warrior
1952
4.00
Riders of the Badlands
1941
4.00
Overland Mail
1942
0.00
The Man from the Rio Grande
1943
0.00
The Marauders
1947
0.00
Trail of the Mounties
1947
0.00
Badlands of Dakota
1941
5.90
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942
4.70
Ride 'Em Cowboy
1942
5.80
The Spoilers
1942
6.20
Santa Fe
1951
6.80
So Ends Our Night
1941
6.00
Arabian Nights
1942
5.90
Texas Cyclone
1932
4.20
The Spider Woman
1943
6.90
Mata Hari
1931
6.20
A Christmas Carol
1938
6.99
Terror by Night
1946
6.58
The Right of Way
1930
5.20
The Soldier and the Lady
1937
6.50
Inside Job
1946
5.60
Singapore Woman
1941
6.80
The Cabin in the Cotton
1932
6.30
Tyrant of the Sea
1950
0.00
Song of Revolt
1937
6.00
The Last Command
1928
7.30
Gypsy Wildcat
1944
5.70
Sudan
1945
6.30
The Conquering Horde
1931
5.00
Honor of the Family
1931
0.00
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943
6.50
Mission to Moscow
1943
5.20
File 113
1933
0.00
The Exile
1947
6.10
Maid of Salem
1937
5.90
Great Expectations
1934
6.20
Red River
1948
7.35
Rulers of the Sea
1939
6.50
Road to Morocco
1942
6.90
Convicted
1950
6.28
Lydia
1941
6.40
Lost in a Harem
1944
5.50
Captain Kidd
1945
6.00
Ship Cafe
1935
0.00
The Knockout
1925
0.00
The Man in Half Moon Street
1945
5.40
Devotion
1946
6.00
Mask of the Avenger
1951
5.33
You Only Live Once
1937
7.10
Tap Roots
1948
6.40
The Great Plane Robbery
1940
0.00
Marie Antoinette
1938
6.60
Painted Desert
1938
5.80
Naughty Marietta
1935
5.10
The Story of Dr. Jenner
1939
0.00
Merrily We Go to Hell
1932
6.44
Black Jack
1927
0.00
Sins of the Fathers
1928
6.00
Mutiny in the Arctic
1941
0.00
Passport to Alcatraz
1940
6.00
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1935
6.61
Mrs. Parkington
1944
6.10
Black Fury
1935
6.40
Raiders of the Desert
1941
0.00
13 Lead Soldiers
1948
6.00
The Isle of Lost Ships
1929
0.00
California
1947
6.50
Les Misérables
1935
7.20
The House of Rothschild
1934
6.20
The Black Arrow
1948
5.20