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Harry Cording

Harry Cording

Birthday: 1891-04-26 | Place of Birth: Wellington, Somerset, England, UK

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1954
Jungle Gents

as    Henchman Shanks

1954
Killer Leopard

as    Supt. Saunders

1953
Man in the Attic

as    Detective Sgt. Bates

1952
The Big Trees

as    Cleve Gregg

1952
Against All Flags

as    Gow

1951
Mask of the Avenger

as    Zio d'Orsini

1950
Last of the Buccaneers

as    Brown

1947
Trail of the Mounties

as    Hawkins

1947
Dangerous Venture

as    Morgan

1947
The Marauders

as    Riker

1946
Dressed to Kill

as    Hamid

1945
The Fatal Witness

as    Gus

1945
The House of Fear

as    John Simpson

1944
The Great Alaskan Mystery

as    Captain Greeder

1944
Gypsy Wildcat

as    Captain Marver

1943
Don't You Believe It

as    Rogue

1942
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

as    Jack Brady (uncredited)

1941
Riders of the Badlands

as    Blacksmith Higgins

1941
Mutiny in the Arctic

as    Harmon

1939
Sons of Liberty

as    Arresting British Trooper (uncredited)

1939
Arizona Legion

as    Whiskey Joe

1938
Painted Desert

as    Henchman Burke

1934
The Black Cat

as    Thamal

1932
Texas Cyclone

as    Jake Farwell

1930
New Moon

as    Kirghiz Soldier at Fort Darvaz

1930
The Right of Way

as    Rouge's Henchman

1930
Bride of the Regiment

as    Sergeant Dostal

1928
The Last Command

as    Revolutionist (uncredited)