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