Harry Cording
male
Born on April 25, 1891 (134 years old)
Passed Away on September 01, 1954
From Wellington, Somerset, England, UK
Known for Acting
Biography
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.
Cast Credits
- 1955
- 1954
- 1953
Man in the Attic
as
Detective Sgt. Bates
1953
Law and Order
as
Townsman (uncredited)
1953
Titanic
as
Boiler Room Engineer (uncredited)
1953
Ambush at Tomahawk Gap
as
Stableman (uncredited)
1953
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as
Rough Character in the Park
1953
Treasure of the Golden Condor
as
Breton (uncredited)
1953
- 1952
- 1951
- 1950
- 1949
- 1948
- 1947
- 1946
- 1945
- 1944
The Pearl of Death
as
George Gelder (uncredited)
1944
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
as
Mahmoud
1944
Bluebeard
as
Policeman (Uncredited)
1944
The Great Alaskan Mystery
as
Captain Greeder
1944
Phantom Lady
as
Courtroom Spectator Next to Carol (uncredited)
1944
Gypsy Wildcat
as
Captain Marver
1944
Lost in a Harem
as
Police Chief (uncredited)
1944
Mrs. Parkington
as
Humphrey
1944
- 1943
Two Tickets to London
as
Sutliff (uncredited)
1943
The Moon Is Down
as
Miner (uncredited)
1943
Fugitive from Sonora
as
Iron Joe Martin
1943
Don't You Believe It
as
Rogue
1943
The Man from the Rio Grande
as
John King
1943
The Spider Woman
as
Fred Garvin (uncredited)
1943
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as
Man Who Flails the Mayor
1943
Mission to Moscow
as
Blacksmith (uncredited)
1943
- 1942
The Ghost of Frankenstein
as
Mob Leader (uncredited)
1942
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
as
Turnkey (uncredited)
1942
The Mummy's Tomb
as
Vic - Farmer (uncredited)
1942
Overland Mail
as
Sam Gregg - Henchman
1942
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
as
Saloon Bouncer
1942
The Spoilers
as
Miner (uncredited)
1942
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
as
Jack Brady (uncredited)
1942
Arabian Nights
as
Blacksmith
1942
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
as
Camberwell
1942
Road to Morocco
as
Warrior (uncredited)
1942
- 1941
The Wolf Man
as
Wykes (uncredited)
1941
They Met in Bombay
as
Corporal at Base (uncredited)
1941
Rawhide Rangers
as
Blackie
1941
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
as
J. L. Red Clinton
1941
The Lady from Cheyenne
as
Mike, Cork's Henchman
1941
Riders of the Badlands
as
Blacksmith Higgins
1941
Badlands of Dakota
as
Jackson
1941
Ride 'Em Cowboy
as
Poker Player (uncredited)
1941
So Ends Our Night
as
Card Player (uncredited)
1941
Singapore Woman
as
Crow's Nest Manager (uncredited)
1941
Lydia
as
Hotel House Detective
1941
Mutiny in the Arctic
as
Harmon
1941
Raiders of the Desert
as
Rawlins
1941
- 1940
The House of the Seven Gables
as
Blacksmith Hawkins
1940
The Invisible Man Returns
as
Miner (uncredited)
1940
Stage to Chino
as
Pete Brannigan
1940
King of the Royal Mounted
as
Wade Garson
1940
Texas Stagecoach
as
Clancy
1940
The Grapes of Wrath
as
Deputy (uncredited)
1940
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
as
Dannick - Crooked Construction Foreman
1940
Little Old New York
as
Man in Mob About to Set 'Clermont' Afire
1940
Law and Order
as
Poe Daggett
1940
Trail of the Vigilantes
as
Phil
1940
When the Daltons Rode
as
Rigby Henchman
1940
Santa Fe Trail
as
Workman in Delaware Crossing (uncredited)
1940
Dark Command
as
Angry Townsman in Bank
1940
Virginia City
as
Scarecrow - Union Prisoner at Libby (uncredited)
1940
The Sea Hawk
as
Slavemaster
1940
Strange Cargo
as
Guard (uncredited)
1940
A Dispatch from Reuters
as
Sailor on the Nova Scotian (uncredited)
1940
Florian
as
Leader
1940
The Great Plane Robbery
as
Eddie Lindo
1940
Passport to Alcatraz
as
Jeffers
1940
- 1939
Sons of Liberty
as
Arresting British Trooper (uncredited)
1939
Devil's Island
as
Guard Accepting Bribe
1939
Stand Up and Fight
as
Bullet Line Blacksmith
1939
Son of Frankenstein
as
Bearded Gendarme (uncredited)
1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as
Man Stealing Watermelon (uncredited)
1939
Arizona Legion
as
Whiskey Joe
1939
The Sun Never Sets
as
Zurof Camp Guard
1939
Tower of London
as
Lead Murderer of the Children
1939
We Are Not Alone
as
Man Carrying Leni
1939
Each Dawn I Die
as
Temple
1939
Mutiny on the Blackhawk
as
Bos'un
1939
Destry Rides Again
as
Creepy - Lends Tom Guns (uncredited)
1939
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as
Guard (uncredited)
1939
The Light That Failed
as
Soldier
1939
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
as
Second Fake Constable (uncredited)
1939
The Marshal Of Mesa City
as
Henchman Bat Cardigan
1939
Rulers of the Sea
as
Seaman (Uncredited)
1939
The Story of Dr. Jenner
as
Village Dairyman (uncredited)
1939
- 1938
Crime School
as
Jim - the Second Guard (uncredited)
1938
Heart of the North
as
Miner Leading Mob (uncredited)
1938
Valley of the Giants
as
Greer
1938
The Adventures of Robin Hood
as
Dickon Malbete
1938
A Christmas Carol
as
Waiter (uncredited)
1938
Marie Antoinette
as
Executioner (uncredited)
1938
Painted Desert
as
Henchman Burke
1938
- 1937
- 1936
- 1935
Captain Blood
as
Kent
1935
Peter Ibbetson
as
Guard (uncredited)
1935
Charlie Chan in Paris
as
Gendarme Arresting Yvette (uncredited)
1935
Mutiny on the Bounty
as
Soldier (uncredited)
1935
Ship Cafe
as
Stoker (uncredited)
1935
Naughty Marietta
as
Pirate (uncredited)
1935
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
as
Sentry (uncredited)
1935
Black Fury
as
Louie (uncredited)
1935
Les Misérables
as
Beam Warder
1935
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
as
Turk, an Opium Addict (uncredited)
1935
- 1934
- 1933
- 1932
- 1931
- 1930
- 1929
- 1928
- 1927
- 1925
