Harry Cording
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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.
Known for
Credits
East of Eden (1955)
as Bouncer (uncredited)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
as Dickon Malbete
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
as Deputy (uncredited)
The Wolf Man (1941)
as Wykes (uncredited)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
as Guard (uncredited)
Sirocco (1951)
as Master Sergeant (uncredited)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
as Soldier (uncredited)
Red River (1948)
as Gambler (uncredited)
Mata Hari (1931)
as Ivan (uncredited)
Road Gang (1936)
as Sam Dawson (guard with whip)
Terror by Night (1946)
as Mock the Undertaker (uncredited)
Naughty Marietta (1935)
as Pirate (uncredited)
The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1940)
as Dannick - Crooked Construction Foreman
Captain Blood (1935)
as Kent
A Christmas Carol (1938)
as Waiter (uncredited)
Peter Ibbetson (1935)
as Guard (uncredited)
Law and Order (1953)
as Townsman (uncredited)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
as Man Who Flails the Mayor
You Only Live Once (1937)
as Guard (uncredited)
Tap Roots (1948)
as Leader (uncredited)
Titanic (1953)
as Boiler Room Engineer (uncredited)
Son of Frankenstein (1939)
as Bearded Gendarme (uncredited)
Buccaneer's Girl (1950)
as Barfly (uncredited)
Passage to Marseille (1944)
as Chief Guard (uncredited)
The Black Cat (1934)
as Thamal
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942)
as Jack Brady (uncredited)
King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
as Castelaine Spokesman (uncredited)
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)
as Turnkey (uncredited)
The Pearl of Death (1944)
as George Gelder (uncredited)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
as Slavemaster
Charlie Chan in Paris (1935)
as Gendarme Arresting Yvette (uncredited)
Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950)
as Will Ward
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
as Second Fake Constable (uncredited)
Al Jennings of Oklahoma (1951)
as Mike Bridges
The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
as Miner (uncredited)
Mask of the Avenger (1951)
as Zio d'Orsini
The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)
as Captain of King's Guards (uncredited)
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
as Mob Leader (uncredited)
The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
as Second Guard
Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
as Fred (uncredited)
Valley of the Giants (1938)
as Greer
Dressed to Kill (1946)
as Hamid
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944)
as Mahmoud
Devil's Island (1939)
as Guard Accepting Bribe
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)
as Man Stealing Watermelon (uncredited)
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
as Sentry (uncredited)
Honor of the Family (1931)
as Kouski
Against All Flags (1952)
as Gow
Each Dawn I Die (1939)
as Temple
Destry Rides Again (1939)
as Creepy - Lends Tom Guns (uncredited)
Marie Antoinette (1938)
as Executioner (uncredited)
Captain Kidd (1945)
as Newgate Prison Warder (uncredited)
Turkish Delight (1927)
Actor
Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942)
as Poker Player (uncredited)
The House of Rothschild (1934)
as Man (uncredited)
The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
as Vic - Farmer (uncredited)
The Spider Woman (1943)
as Fred Garvin (uncredited)
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
as Workman in Delaware Crossing (uncredited)
Strange Cargo (1940)
as Guard (uncredited)
Forever Amber (1947)
Actor
The Verdict (1946)
as Tough Englishman (uncredited)
The Patriot (1928)
as Stefan
Dark Command (1940)
as Angry Townsman in Bank
Man in the Attic (1953)
as Detective Sgt. Bates
Night Beat (1931)
as Chill Scarpelli
The House of Fear (1945)
as John Simpson
Arabian Nights (1942)
as Blacksmith
Bluebeard (1944)
as Policeman (Uncredited)
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)
as Rough Character in the Park
Virginia City (1940)
as Scarecrow - Union Prisoner at Libby (uncredited)
Les Misérables (1935)
as Beam Warder
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)
as Camberwell
Daredevil's Reward (1928)
as Second Heavy
The Spoilers (1942)
as Miner (uncredited)
Lost in a Harem (1944)
as Police Chief (uncredited)
Road to Bali (1952)
as Verna’s Father (uncredited)
The Squall (1929)
as Peter
Mrs. Parkington (1944)
as Humphrey
Ambush at Tomahawk Gap (1953)
as Stableman (uncredited)
Lydia (1941)
as Hotel House Detective
Road to Morocco (1942)
as Warrior (uncredited)
Tower of London (1939)
as Lead Murderer of the Children
Maid of Salem (1937)
as Guard (Uncredited)
California (1947)
as Miner (uncredited)
The Big Trees (1952)
as Cleve Gregg
When the Daltons Rode (1940)
as Rigby Henchman
To the Last Man (1933)
as Colby Man Fred (uncredited)
Roman Scandals (1933)
as Valerius' Soldier (uncredited)
Convicted (1950)
as Convict in Prison Yard (uncredited)
Captain of the Guard (1930)
as Le Bruin
Phantom Lady (1944)
as Courtroom Spectator Next to Carol (uncredited)
The Secret Of St. Ives (1949)
as Innkeeper (uncredited)
Mission to Moscow (1943)
as Blacksmith (uncredited)
The Sun Never Sets (1939)
as Zurof Camp Guard
A Woman's Vengeance (1948)
as Chauffeur McNabb
Cripple Creek (1952)
as Hibbs (uncredited)
Santa Fe (1951)
as Moose Legrande
That Lady in Ermine (1948)
as Orlando (uncredited)
The Country Doctor (1936)
as Logger (uncredited)
Iron Man (1951)
as Miner (uncredited)
The Girl in 419 (1933)
as Henchman Driver
Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)
as Saloon Bouncer
The Great Plane Robbery (1940)
as Eddie Lindo
Treasure of the Golden Condor (1953)
as Breton (uncredited)
So Ends Our Night (1941)
as Card Player (uncredited)
The Black Arrow (1948)
as Guard (uncredited)
They Met in Bombay (1941)
as Corporal at Base (uncredited)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)
as Turk, an Opium Addict (uncredited)
Night Stage to Galveston (1952)
as Ted Driscoll
The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
as Blacksmith Hawkins
Trail of the Vigilantes (1940)
as Phil
Sea Devils (1937)
as Sailor (uncredited)
Two Tickets to London (1943)
as Sutliff (uncredited)
The White Angel (1936)
as Hospital Storekeeper (uncredited)
The Strange Door (1951)
Actor
The Last Command (1928)
as Revolutionist (uncredited)
There's Something About a Soldier (1943)
Actor
Devotion (1946)
as Coachman with Frightened Horses (uncredited)
Texas Cyclone (1932)
as Jake Farwell
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie (1941)
as J. L. Red Clinton
The Lady from Cheyenne (1941)
as Mike, Cork's Henchman
Heart of the North (1938)
as Miner Leading Mob (uncredited)
Bride of the Regiment (1930)
as Sergeant Dostal
Captain Pirate (1952)
as Col. Ramsey's Overseer (uncredited)
Mutiny in the Arctic (1941)
as Harmon
Stand Up and Fight (1939)
as Bullet Line Blacksmith
Crime School (1938)
as Jim - the Second Guard (uncredited)
New Moon (1930)
as Kirghiz Soldier at Fort Darvaz
The Soldier and the Lady (1937)
as Peasant (Uncredited)
Black Fury (1935)
as Louie (uncredited)
I Like Your Nerve (1931)
as San Arango Officer (uncredited)
Christina (1929)
as Dick Torpe
Sudan (1945)
as Uba
Badlands of Dakota (1941)
as Jackson
The Man in Half Moon Street (1945)
as Bobby
Fugitive from Sonora (1943)
as Iron Joe Martin
King of the Royal Mounted (1940)
as Wade Garson
The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
as Ross Clinton (uncredited)
Tyrant of the Sea (1950)
as Sampson Edwards
The Light That Failed (1939)
as Soldier
Rulers of the Sea (1939)
as Seaman (Uncredited)
We Live Again (1934)
as Jailer
Rough Romance (1930)
as Chick Carson
The Exile (1947)
as Roundhead (uncredited)
A Dispatch from Reuters (1940)
as Sailor on the Nova Scotian (uncredited)
Brave Warrior (1952)
as Shayne MacGregor
Mutiny on the Blackhawk (1939)
as Bos'un
The Marshal Of Mesa City (1939)
as Henchman Bat Cardigan
We Are Not Alone (1939)
as Man Carrying Leni
13 Lead Soldiers (1948)
as Edward Vane
The Iroquois Trail (1950)
as Frontiersman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sons of Liberty (1939)
as Arresting British Trooper (uncredited)
The Moon Is Down (1943)
as Miner (uncredited)
Riders of the Badlands (1941)
as Blacksmith Higgins
The Right of Way (1930)
as Rouge's Henchman
Ship Cafe (1935)
as Stoker (uncredited)
Florian (1940)
as Leader
Last of the Buccaneers (1950)
as Brown
Singapore Woman (1941)
as Crow's Nest Manager (uncredited)
Killer Leopard (1954)
as Supt. Saunders
The Man from the Rio Grande (1943)
as John King
Trail of the Mounties (1947)
as Hawkins
Captured! (1933)
as First Orderly
The Isle of Lost Ships (1929)
as Gallagher
Calcutta (1946)
as Tea Planter (uncredited)
Scarlet Dawn (1932)
as Revolutionary (Uncredited)
Great Expectations (1934)
as Orlick
Sins of the Fathers (1928)
as The Hijacker
Daniel Boone (1936)
as Joe Burch
The Sea Ghost (1931)
as Sailor Who Knocks Out Capt. Winter (uncredited)
Little Old New York (1940)
as Man in Mob About to Set 'Clermont' Afire
The World and the Flesh (1932)
as Ivanovitch
Don't You Believe It (1943)
as Rogue
Inside Job (1946)
as Bartender
Raiders of the Desert (1941)
as Rawlins
Gypsy Wildcat (1944)
as Captain Marver
Strange Wives (1934)
as Tribesman
Overland Mail (1942)
as Sam Gregg - Henchman
Hot Cargo (1946)
as Matt Wayne
The Marauders (1947)
as Riker
Fool's Gold (1946)
as Duke
The Story of Dr. Jenner (1939)
as Village Dairyman (uncredited)
The Great Alaskan Mystery (1944)
as Captain Greeder
Passport to Alcatraz (1940)
as Jeffers
Secrets of the French Police (1932)
as Man Reading Newspaper (uncredited)
Stage to Chino (1940)
as Pete Brannigan
The Intruder (1933)
as Cramer
Sweepings (1933)
as Customer (Uncredited)
The Conquering Horde (1931)
as Butch Daggett
Jungle Gents (1954)
as Henchman Shanks
File 113 (1933)
as Michele
Painted Desert (1938)
as Henchman Burke
Sutter's Gold (1936)
as Seaman Lars
Dangerous Venture (1947)
as Morgan
The Knockout (1925)
as Steve McKenna
Black Jack (1927)
as Haskins
Arizona Legion (1939)
as Whiskey Joe
Narcotic (1933)
as Dr. William G. Davis
Rawhide Rangers (1941)
as Blackie
Law and Order (1940)
as Poe Daggett
The Fatal Witness (1945)
as Gus
Song of Revolt (1937)
as Peasant Rebel Leader (uncredited)
Texas Stagecoach (1940)
as Clancy