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.

Cast

Hibbs (uncredited)

A Woman's Vengeance

Chauffeur McNabb

The Ghost of Frankenstein

Mob Leader (uncredited)

The Secret Of St. Ives

Innkeeper (uncredited)

Dressed to Kill

The House of Fear

The Pearl of Death

George Gelder (uncredited)

Wykes (uncredited)

The House of the Seven Gables

Blacksmith Hawkins

The Invisible Man Returns

Miner (uncredited)

Man in the Attic

Detective Sgt. Bates

Daredevil's Reward

The Prince and the Pauper

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Against All Flags

Sailor Who Knocks Out Capt. Winter (uncredited)

Jim - the Second Guard (uncredited)

The Strange Door

The Black Shield of Falworth

Captain of King's Guards (uncredited)

Guard (uncredited)

The Iroquois Trail

Fortunes of Captain Blood

They Met in Bombay

Corporal at Base (uncredited)

Two Tickets to London

Sutliff (uncredited)

The Fatal Witness

Townsman (uncredited)

Verna’s Father (uncredited)

Col. Ramsey's Overseer (uncredited)

King Richard and the Crusaders

Castelaine Spokesman (uncredited)

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

Turnkey (uncredited)

Boiler Room Engineer (uncredited)

Sailor (uncredited)

Policeman (Uncredited)

Ambush at Tomahawk Gap

Stableman (uncredited)

Night Stage to Galveston

Buccaneer's Girl

Customer (Uncredited)

The Great Alaskan Mystery

Captain Greeder

Sons of Liberty

Arresting British Trooper (uncredited)

Al Jennings of Oklahoma

Dr. William G. Davis

Bride of the Regiment

Sergeant Dostal

Charlie Chan in Paris

Gendarme Arresting Yvette (uncredited)

Kirghiz Soldier at Fort Darvaz

Last of the Buccaneers

Captain of the Guard

Tea Planter (uncredited)

Rawhide Rangers

The Moon Is Down

Miner (uncredited)

The Mummy's Tomb

Vic - Farmer (uncredited)

That Lady in Ermine

Orlando (uncredited)

Courtroom Spectator Next to Carol (uncredited)

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Rough Character in the Park

The White Angel

Hospital Storekeeper (uncredited)

Stand Up and Fight

Bullet Line Blacksmith

Guard Accepting Bribe

Son of Frankenstein

Bearded Gendarme (uncredited)

Master Sergeant (uncredited)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Man Stealing Watermelon (uncredited)

The Sun Never Sets

Zurof Camp Guard

Tower of London

Lead Murderer of the Children

We Are Not Alone

Man Carrying Leni

Each Dawn I Die

Mutiny on the Blackhawk

Destry Rides Again

Creepy - Lends Tom Guns (uncredited)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Guard (uncredited)

The Light That Failed

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Second Fake Constable (uncredited)

The Marshal Of Mesa City

Henchman Bat Cardigan

Chill Scarpelli

Heart of the North

Miner Leading Mob (uncredited)

King of the Royal Mounted

Texas Stagecoach

The Grapes of Wrath

Deputy (uncredited)

Fugitive from Sonora

Iron Joe Martin

The Country Doctor

Logger (uncredited)

Bouncer (uncredited)

The Green Hornet Strikes Again!

Dannick - Crooked Construction Foreman

Little Old New York

Man in Mob About to Set 'Clermont' Afire

Valley of the Giants

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Henchman Shanks

Mutiny on the Bounty

Soldier (uncredited)

Trail of the Vigilantes

Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie

J. L. Red Clinton

The Lady from Cheyenne

Mike, Cork's Henchman

When the Daltons Rode

Workman in Delaware Crossing (uncredited)

Scarecrow - Union Prisoner at Libby (uncredited)

Angry Townsman in Bank

The World and the Flesh

Revolutionary (Uncredited)

Guard (uncredited)

Dangerous Venture

A Dispatch from Reuters

Sailor on the Nova Scotian (uncredited)

Don't You Believe It

To the Last Man

Colby Man Fred (uncredited)

Sam Dawson (guard with whip)

The Girl in 419

Henchman Driver

Shayne MacGregor

Riders of the Badlands

Blacksmith Higgins

Sam Gregg - Henchman

The Man from the Rio Grande

Trail of the Mounties

Badlands of Dakota

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

Ride 'Em Cowboy

Poker Player (uncredited)

Miner (uncredited)

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

Jack Brady (uncredited)

So Ends Our Night

Card Player (uncredited)

Ivan (uncredited)

The Spider Woman

Fred Garvin (uncredited)

A Christmas Carol

Waiter (uncredited)

Terror by Night

Mock the Undertaker (uncredited)

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

The Right of Way

Rouge's Henchman

The Soldier and the Lady

Peasant (Uncredited)

Singapore Woman

Crow's Nest Manager (uncredited)

The Cabin in the Cotton

Ross Clinton (uncredited)

Tyrant of the Sea

Sampson Edwards

Peasant Rebel Leader (uncredited)

The Last Command

Revolutionist (uncredited)

The Conquering Horde

Honor of the Family

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Man Who Flails the Mayor

Mission to Moscow

Blacksmith (uncredited)

Roundhead (uncredited)

Guard (Uncredited)

Great Expectations

Gambler (uncredited)

Rulers of the Sea

Seaman (Uncredited)

Road to Morocco

Warrior (uncredited)

Convict in Prison Yard (uncredited)

Hotel House Detective

Lost in a Harem

Police Chief (uncredited)

Newgate Prison Warder (uncredited)

Stoker (uncredited)

The Man in Half Moon Street

Coachman with Frightened Horses (uncredited)

Mask of the Avenger

You Only Live Once

Guard (uncredited)

Leader (uncredited)

The Great Plane Robbery

Marie Antoinette

Executioner (uncredited)

Naughty Marietta

Pirate (uncredited)

The Story of Dr. Jenner

Village Dairyman (uncredited)

Merrily We Go to Hell

Fred (uncredited)

Sins of the Fathers

Mutiny in the Arctic

Passport to Alcatraz

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

Sentry (uncredited)

Mrs. Parkington

Louie (uncredited)

Raiders of the Desert

13 Lead Soldiers

The Isle of Lost Ships

Miner (uncredited)

Les Misérables

The House of Rothschild

Man (uncredited)

The Black Arrow

Guard (uncredited)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Turk, an Opium Addict (uncredited)

Secrets of the French Police

Man Reading Newspaper (uncredited)

I Like Your Nerve

San Arango Officer (uncredited)

Valerius' Soldier (uncredited)

Treasure of the Golden Condor

Breton (uncredited)

Miner (uncredited)