Harry Cording

Birthday

1891-04-26

Place of Birth

Wellington, Somerset, England, UK

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hector William "Harry" Cording (26 April 1891 – 1 September 1954) 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.
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Jungle Gents

Jungle Gents

1954 5.8
Jungle Gents

as Henchman Shanks

1954
Man in the Attic

Man in the Attic

1953 6.1
Man in the Attic

as Detective Sgt. Bates

1953
Sons of Liberty

Sons of Liberty

1939 5.8
Sons of Liberty

as Arresting British Trooper (uncredited)

1939
New Moon

New Moon

1930 5.9
New Moon

as Kirghiz Soldier at Fort Darvaz

1930
The Last Command

The Last Command

1928 8
The Last Command

as Revolutionist (uncredited)

1928