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.
Acting
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The Grapes of Wrath
as Deputy (uncredited)
1940
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Dickon Malbete
1938
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East of Eden
as Bouncer (uncredited)
1955
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The Wolf Man
as Wykes (uncredited)
1941
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Red River
as Gambler (uncredited)
1948
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Mutiny on the Bounty
as Soldier (uncredited)
1935
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The Black Cat
as Thamal
1934
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Son of Frankenstein
as Bearded Gendarme (uncredited)
1939
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Captain Blood
as Kent
1935
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Guard (uncredited)
1939
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Man Who Flails the Mayor
1943
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Destry Rides Again
as Creepy - Lends Tom Guns (uncredited)
1939
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You Only Live Once
as Guard (uncredited)
1937
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The Ghost of Frankenstein
as Mob Leader (uncredited)
1942
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
as Second Fake Constable (uncredited)
1939
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Titanic
as Boiler Room Engineer (uncredited)
1953
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The Sea Hawk
as Slavemaster
1940
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A Christmas Carol
as Waiter (uncredited)
1938
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Terror by Night
as Mock the Undertaker (uncredited)
1946
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
as Jack Brady (uncredited)
1942
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The Invisible Man Returns
as Miner (uncredited)
1940
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Phantom Lady
as Courtroom Spectator Next to Carol (uncredited)
1944
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Dressed to Kill
as Hamid
1946
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The House of Fear
as John Simpson
1945