Harry Cording
Acting
Born 1891-04-25
Died 1954-09-01
Wellington, Somerset, England, UK
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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.
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Acting
56 credits
The Adventures of Robin Hood
East of Eden
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Wolf Man
Red River
The Grapes of Wrath
Titanic
Captain Blood
Mutiny on the Bounty
Terror by Night
The Sea Hawk
Dressed to Kill
Tap Roots
For Whom the Bell Tolls
You Only Live Once
Mata Hari
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
A Christmas Carol
Santa Fe Trail
The Spoilers
Sirocco
The Black Cat
The Ghost of Frankenstein
Son of Frankenstein
Destry Rides Again
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Marie Antoinette
Dark Command
Naughty Marietta
The Invisible Man Returns
The Last Command
Virginia City
Against All Flags
The Black Shield of Falworth
Mission to Moscow
Captain Kidd
Law and Order
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Big Trees
The Verdict
Arabian Nights
California
The Prince and the Pauper
Each Dawn I Die
Buccaneer's Girl
King Richard and the Crusaders
Les Misérables
Peter Ibbetson
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
The Pearl of Death
A Volta do Besouro Verde
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Patriot
Strange Cargo
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Santa Fe
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