Harry Cording
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.
203 acting credits
Acting · 203
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
Hopalong Cassidy
1952
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938
East of Eden
1955
Red River
1948
Mutiny on the Bounty
1935
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
The Wolf Man
1941
Titanic
1953
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939
The Black Cat
1934
The Verdict
1946
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943
Dressed to Kill
1946
The Invisible Man Returns
1940
A Christmas Carol
1938
Captain Blood
1935
Law and Order
1953
Crime School
1938
Les Misérables
1935
The Sea Hawk
1940
Santa Fe Trail
1940
The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942
Sirocco
1951
Arabian Nights
1942
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1953
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
1942
Destry Rides Again
1939
Son of Frankenstein
1939
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1935
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
1942
California
1947
The Spoilers
1942
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
1944
Lydia
1941
The Black Shield of Falworth
1954
Ship Cafe
1935
Marie Antoinette
1938
King Richard and the Crusaders
1954
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1935
The Spider Woman
1943
Road to Morocco
1942
So Ends Our Night
1941
The House of Fear
1945
Mata Hari
1931
When the Daltons Rode
1940
The Black Arrow
1948
Virginia City
1940
You Only Live Once
1937
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939
The Mummy's Tomb
1942
Valley of the Giants
1938
Strange Cargo
1940
A Volta do Besouro Verde
1940
Mission to Moscow
1943
Iron Man
1951
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
1951
Captain Kidd
1945
Against All Flags
1952
Tap Roots
1948
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942
Devotion
1946
The Prince and the Pauper
1937
The Cabin in the Cotton
1932
Buccaneer's Girl
1950
The Iroquois Trail
1950
Roman Scandals
1933
To the Last Man
1933
The Big Trees
1952
Convicted
1950
Captain Pirate
1952
Phantom Lady
1944
Santa Fe
1951
Each Dawn I Die
1939
Maid of Salem
1937
The Last Command
1928
Sudan
1945
Black Fury
1935
That Lady in Ermine
1948
Fortunes of Captain Blood
1950
The Strange Door
1951
Sweepings
1933
The Pearl of Death
1944
Road to Bali
1952
Peter Ibbetson
1935
Terror by Night
1946
Ambush at Tomahawk Gap
1953
Man in the Attic
1953
Inside Job
1946
Merrily We Go to Hell
1932
The House of the Seven Gables
1940
The Soldier and the Lady
1937
Dark Command
1940
Ride 'Em Cowboy
1941
Badlands of Dakota
1941
The Moon Is Down
1943
The Fatal Witness
1945
The Man in Half Moon Street
1945
The Patriot
1928
Mask of the Avenger
1951
Tower of London
1939
Overland Mail
1942
The Country Doctor
1936
Naughty Marietta
1935
Jungle Gents
1954
Treasure of the Golden Condor
1953
There's Something About a Soldier
1943
Two Tickets to London
1943
Calcutta
1946
The Squall
1929
Sea Devils
1937
The House of Rothschild
1934
The Marauders
1947
Road Gang
1936
Captured!
1933
Mutiny on the Blackhawk
1939
Bluebeard
1944
They Met in Bombay
1941
The Exile
1947
The White Angel
1936
The Sun Never Sets
1939
Devil's Island
1939
I Like Your Nerve
1931
Captain of the Guard
1930
Honor of the Family
1931
Mrs. Parkington
1944
Cripple Creek
1952
A Woman's Vengeance
1948
Lost in a Harem
1944
Stand Up and Fight
1939
The Secret Of St. Ives
1949
Last of the Buccaneers
1950
The Light That Failed
1939
Scarlet Dawn
1932
The Great Alaskan Mystery
1944
Stage to Chino
1940
Great Expectations
1934
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942
Secrets of the French Police
1932
Sins of the Fathers
1928
The Sea Ghost
1931
Fool's Gold
1946
Arizona Legion
1939
Florian
1940
File 113
1933
Tyrant of the Sea
1950
Rawhide Rangers
1941
A Dispatch from Reuters
1940
Texas Cyclone
1932
King of the Royal Mounted
1940
Sutter's Gold
1936
13 Lead Soldiers
1948
We Live Again
1934
Night Stage to Galveston
1952
Charlie Chan in Paris
1935
Daniel Boone
1936
Law and Order
1940
Rulers of the Sea
1939
The Girl in 419
1933
Killer Leopard
1954
Strange Wives
1934
The Man from the Rio Grande
1943
Trail of the Vigilantes
1940
Gypsy Wildcat
1944
Little Old New York
1940
Riders of the Badlands
1941
The Knockout
1925
Brave Warrior
1952
Fugitive from Sonora
1943
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941
Rough Romance
1930
Mutiny in the Arctic
1941
New Moon
1930
Heart of the North
1938
We Are Not Alone
1939
Turkish Delight
1927
Song of Revolt
1937
The Isle of Lost Ships
1929
Sons of Liberty
1939
Singapore Woman
1941
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
1941
The World and the Flesh
1932
Texas Stagecoach
1940
Passport to Alcatraz
1940
Christina
1929
The Intruder
1933
The Right of Way
1930
Hot Cargo
1946
Raiders of the Desert
1941
Daredevil's Reward
1928
Painted Desert
1938
Black Jack
1927
The Great Plane Robbery
1940
The Marshal Of Mesa City
1939
The Story of Dr. Jenner
1939
Narcotic
1933
Bride of the Regiment
1930
Dangerous Venture
1947
Trail of the Mounties
1947
The Conquering Horde
1931
Don't You Believe It
1943
Night Beat
1931