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