Harry Cording
Born: 1891-04-25 in Wellington, Somerset, England, UK
Died: 1954-09-01
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.
Filmography
1955
- East of Eden as Bouncer (uncredited)
1954
- King Richard and the Crusaders as Castelaine Spokesman (uncredited)
- The Black Shield of Falworth as Captain of King's Guards (uncredited)
- Jungle Gents as Henchman Shanks
- Killer Leopard as Supt. Saunders
1953
- Titanic as Boiler Room Engineer (uncredited)
- Ambush at Tomahawk Gap as Stableman (uncredited)
- Law and Order as Townsman (uncredited)
- Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Rough Character in the Park
- Treasure of the Golden Condor as Breton (uncredited)
- Man in the Attic as Detective Sgt. Bates
1952
- Hopalong Cassidy
- Against All Flags as Gow
- Road to Bali as Verna’s Father (uncredited)
- The Big Trees as Cleve Gregg
- Cripple Creek as Hibbs (uncredited)
- Captain Pirate as Col. Ramsey's Overseer (uncredited)
- Night Stage to Galveston as Ted Driscoll
- Brave Warrior as Shayne MacGregor
1951
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
- Sirocco as Master Sergeant (uncredited)
- The Strange Door
- Mask of the Avenger as Zio d'Orsini
- Iron Man as Miner (uncredited)
- Santa Fe as Moose Legrande
- Al Jennings of Oklahoma as Mike Bridges
1950
- Buccaneer's Girl as Barfly (uncredited)
- Fortunes of Captain Blood as Will Ward
- Convicted as Convict in Prison Yard (uncredited)
- Tyrant of the Sea as Sampson Edwards
- Last of the Buccaneers as Brown
- The Iroquois Trail as Frontiersman (archive footage) (uncredited)
1949
- The Secret Of St. Ives as Innkeeper (uncredited)
1948
- Red River as Gambler (uncredited)
- Tap Roots as Leader (uncredited)
- That Lady in Ermine as Orlando (uncredited)
- A Woman's Vengeance as Chauffeur McNabb
- The Black Arrow as Guard (uncredited)
- 13 Lead Soldiers as Edward Vane
1947
- Forever Amber
- California as Miner (uncredited)
- Trail of the Mounties as Hawkins
- The Exile as Roundhead (uncredited)
- The Marauders as Riker
- Dangerous Venture as Morgan
1946
- Dressed to Kill as Hamid
- Terror by Night as Mock the Undertaker (uncredited)
- The Verdict as Tough Englishman (uncredited)
- Inside Job as Bartender
- Devotion as Coachman with Frightened Horses (uncredited)
- Calcutta as Tea Planter (uncredited)
- Fool's Gold as Duke
- Hot Cargo as Matt Wayne
1945
- The House of Fear as John Simpson
- Captain Kidd as Newgate Prison Warder (uncredited)
- The Man in Half Moon Street as Bobby
- Sudan as Uba
- The Fatal Witness as Gus
1944
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves as Mahmoud
- The Pearl of Death as George Gelder (uncredited)
- Passage to Marseille as Chief Guard (uncredited)
- Phantom Lady as Courtroom Spectator Next to Carol (uncredited)
- Lost in a Harem as Police Chief (uncredited)
- Mrs. Parkington as Humphrey
- The Great Alaskan Mystery as Captain Greeder
- Bluebeard as Policeman (Uncredited)
- Gypsy Wildcat as Captain Marver
1943
- For Whom the Bell Tolls as Man Who Flails the Mayor
- The Moon Is Down as Miner (uncredited)
- The Spider Woman as Fred Garvin (uncredited)
- Mission to Moscow as Blacksmith (uncredited)
- There's Something About a Soldier
- The Man from the Rio Grande as John King
- Two Tickets to London as Sutliff (uncredited)
- Don't You Believe It as Rogue
- Fugitive from Sonora as Iron Joe Martin
1942
- The Ghost of Frankenstein as Mob Leader (uncredited)
- Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon as Jack Brady (uncredited)
- Arabian Nights as Blacksmith
- Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror as Camberwell
- Road to Morocco as Warrior (uncredited)
- The Spoilers as Miner (uncredited)
- Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake as Turnkey (uncredited)
- The Mummy's Tomb as Vic - Farmer (uncredited)
- Wild Bill Hickok Rides as Saloon Bouncer
- Overland Mail as Sam Gregg - Henchman
1941
- The Wolf Man as Wykes (uncredited)
- Ride 'Em Cowboy as Poker Player (uncredited)
- So Ends Our Night as Card Player (uncredited)
- They Met in Bombay as Corporal at Base (uncredited)
- Badlands of Dakota as Jackson
- Mutiny in the Arctic as Harmon
- Lydia as Hotel House Detective
- The Lady from Cheyenne as Mike, Cork's Henchman
- Riders of the Badlands as Blacksmith Higgins
- Raiders of the Desert as Rawlins
- Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie as J. L. Red Clinton
- Singapore Woman as Crow's Nest Manager (uncredited)
- Rawhide Rangers as Blackie
1940
- The Grapes of Wrath as Deputy (uncredited)
- The Sea Hawk as Slavemaster
- The Invisible Man Returns as Miner (uncredited)
- Dark Command as Angry Townsman in Bank
- Santa Fe Trail as Workman in Delaware Crossing (uncredited)
- The Green Hornet Strikes Again! as Dannick - Crooked Construction Foreman
- When the Daltons Rode as Rigby Henchman
- The House of the Seven Gables as Blacksmith Hawkins
- Virginia City as Scarecrow - Union Prisoner at Libby (uncredited)
- Strange Cargo as Guard (uncredited)
- Little Old New York as Man in Mob About to Set 'Clermont' Afire
- A Dispatch from Reuters as Sailor on the Nova Scotian (uncredited)
- Trail of the Vigilantes as Phil
- The Great Plane Robbery as Eddie Lindo
- King of the Royal Mounted as Wade Garson
- Florian as Leader
- Passport to Alcatraz as Jeffers
- Law and Order as Poe Daggett
- Stage to Chino as Pete Brannigan
- Texas Stagecoach as Clancy
1939
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Guard (uncredited)
- Son of Frankenstein as Bearded Gendarme (uncredited)
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as Second Fake Constable (uncredited)
- Destry Rides Again as Creepy - Lends Tom Guns (uncredited)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as Man Stealing Watermelon (uncredited)
- Tower of London as Lead Murderer of the Children
- Each Dawn I Die as Temple
- Stand Up and Fight as Bullet Line Blacksmith
- We Are Not Alone as Man Carrying Leni
- The Light That Failed as Soldier
- Devil's Island as Guard Accepting Bribe
- Rulers of the Sea as Seaman (Uncredited)
- The Sun Never Sets as Zurof Camp Guard
- The Story of Dr. Jenner as Village Dairyman (uncredited)
- Mutiny on the Blackhawk as Bos'un
- The Marshal Of Mesa City as Henchman Bat Cardigan
- Sons of Liberty as Arresting British Trooper (uncredited)
- Arizona Legion as Whiskey Joe
1938
- The Adventures of Robin Hood as Dickon Malbete
- A Christmas Carol as Waiter (uncredited)
- Marie Antoinette as Executioner (uncredited)
- Heart of the North as Miner Leading Mob (uncredited)
- Valley of the Giants as Greer
- Crime School as Jim - the Second Guard (uncredited)
- Painted Desert as Henchman Burke
1937
- You Only Live Once as Guard (uncredited)
- The Prince and the Pauper as Second Guard
- The Soldier and the Lady as Peasant (Uncredited)
- Maid of Salem as Guard (Uncredited)
- Sea Devils as Sailor (uncredited)
- Song of Revolt as Peasant Rebel Leader (uncredited)
1936
- The White Angel as Hospital Storekeeper (uncredited)
- Road Gang as Sam Dawson (guard with whip)
- Daniel Boone as Joe Burch
- Sutter's Gold as Seaman Lars
- The Country Doctor as Logger (uncredited)
1935
- Captain Blood as Kent
- Mutiny on the Bounty as Soldier (uncredited)
- Peter Ibbetson as Guard (uncredited)
- The Lives of a Bengal Lancer as Sentry (uncredited)
- Naughty Marietta as Pirate (uncredited)
- Charlie Chan in Paris as Gendarme Arresting Yvette (uncredited)
- Les Misérables as Beam Warder
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood as Turk, an Opium Addict (uncredited)
- Black Fury as Louie (uncredited)
- Ship Cafe as Stoker (uncredited)
1934
- The Black Cat as Thamal
- The House of Rothschild as Man (uncredited)
- Great Expectations as Orlick
- We Live Again as Jailer
- Strange Wives as Tribesman
1933
- Roman Scandals as Valerius' Soldier (uncredited)
- To the Last Man as Colby Man Fred (uncredited)
- The Girl in 419 as Henchman Driver
- Sweepings as Customer (Uncredited)
- Captured! as First Orderly
- Narcotic as Dr. William G. Davis
- File 113 as Michele
- The Intruder as Cramer
1932
- Merrily We Go to Hell as Fred (uncredited)
- The Cabin in the Cotton as Ross Clinton (uncredited)
- The World and the Flesh as Ivanovitch
- Secrets of the French Police as Man Reading Newspaper (uncredited)
- Texas Cyclone as Jake Farwell
- Scarlet Dawn as Revolutionary (Uncredited)
1931
- Mata Hari as Ivan (uncredited)
- Night Beat as Chill Scarpelli
- Honor of the Family as Kouski
- I Like Your Nerve as San Arango Officer (uncredited)
- The Conquering Horde as Butch Daggett
- The Sea Ghost as Sailor Who Knocks Out Capt. Winter (uncredited)
1930
- The Right of Way as Rouge's Henchman
- Bride of the Regiment as Sergeant Dostal
- Captain of the Guard as Le Bruin
- New Moon as Kirghiz Soldier at Fort Darvaz
- Rough Romance as Chick Carson
1929
- The Squall as Peter
- Christina as Dick Torpe
- The Isle of Lost Ships as Gallagher
1928
- The Patriot as Stefan
- The Last Command as Revolutionist (uncredited)
- Sins of the Fathers as The Hijacker
- Daredevil's Reward as Second Heavy
1927
- Turkish Delight
- Black Jack as Haskins
1925
- The Knockout as Steve McKenna