Actor · Acting

Harry Cording

Born 1891-04-25

Died 1954-09-01

📍 Wellington, Somerset, England, UK

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 202

as Bouncer (uncredited)

as Henchman Shanks

The Black Shield of Falworth

as Captain of King's Guards (uncredited)

as Supt. Saunders

King Richard and the Crusaders

as Castelaine Spokesman (uncredited)

Man in the Attic

as Detective Sgt. Bates

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as Rough Character in the Park

as Townsman (uncredited)

Ambush at Tomahawk Gap

as Stableman (uncredited)

as Boiler Room Engineer (uncredited)

Treasure of the Golden Condor

as Breton (uncredited)

Against All Flags

as Verna’s Father (uncredited)

Hopalong Cassidy

as Col. Ramsey's Overseer (uncredited)

as Hibbs (uncredited)

as Shayne MacGregor

Night Stage to Galveston

as Ted Driscoll

The Strange Door

as Miner (uncredited)

Mask of the Avenger

as Zio d'Orsini

as Master Sergeant (uncredited)

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

as Moose Legrande

Al Jennings of Oklahoma

as Mike Bridges

Last of the Buccaneers

as Convict in Prison Yard (uncredited)

The Iroquois Trail

Fortunes of Captain Blood

Buccaneer's Girl

as Barfly (uncredited)

Tyrant of the Sea

as Sampson Edwards

as Gambler (uncredited)

as Leader (uncredited)

That Lady in Ermine

as Orlando (uncredited)

13 Lead Soldiers

The Black Arrow

as Guard (uncredited)

A Woman's Vengeance

as Chauffeur McNabb

Trail of the Mounties

as Roundhead (uncredited)

Dangerous Venture

as Miner (uncredited)

as Tea Planter (uncredited)

as Tough Englishman (uncredited)

Dressed to Kill

as Coachman with Frightened Horses (uncredited)

Terror by Night

as Mock the Undertaker (uncredited)

as Newgate Prison Warder (uncredited)

The Fatal Witness

The House of Fear

as John Simpson

The Man in Half Moon Street

Lost in a Harem

as Police Chief (uncredited)

as Policeman (Uncredited)

Mrs. Parkington

as Captain Marver

The Pearl of Death

as George Gelder (uncredited)

The Great Alaskan Mystery

as Captain Greeder

as Courtroom Spectator Next to Carol (uncredited)

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

The Spider Woman

as Fred Garvin (uncredited)

There's Something About a Soldier

The Man from the Rio Grande

For Whom the Bell Tolls

as Man Who Flails the Mayor

Don't You Believe It

Fugitive from Sonora

as Iron Joe Martin

Two Tickets to London

as Sutliff (uncredited)

Mission to Moscow

as Blacksmith (uncredited)

The Moon Is Down

as Miner (uncredited)

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

as Jack Brady (uncredited)

Road to Morocco

as Warrior (uncredited)

The Mummy's Tomb

as Vic - Farmer (uncredited)

as Sam Gregg - Henchman

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

as Miner (uncredited)

The Ghost of Frankenstein

as Mob Leader (uncredited)

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

as Saloon Bouncer

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

as Turnkey (uncredited)

Riders of the Badlands

as Blacksmith Higgins

as Wykes (uncredited)

Ride 'Em Cowboy

as Poker Player (uncredited)

as Hotel House Detective

Badlands of Dakota

Rawhide Rangers

Raiders of the Desert

They Met in Bombay

as Corporal at Base (uncredited)

Singapore Woman

as Crow's Nest Manager (uncredited)

Mutiny in the Arctic

The Lady from Cheyenne

as Mike, Cork's Henchman

Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie

as J. L. Red Clinton

So Ends Our Night

as Card Player (uncredited)

The Green Hornet Strikes Again!

as Dannick - Crooked Construction Foreman

as Workman in Delaware Crossing (uncredited)

Trail of the Vigilantes

The Great Plane Robbery

A Dispatch from Reuters

as Sailor on the Nova Scotian (uncredited)

King of the Royal Mounted

When the Daltons Rode

as Rigby Henchman

as Pete Brannigan

Passport to Alcatraz

Texas Stagecoach

as Angry Townsman in Bank

The House of the Seven Gables

as Blacksmith Hawkins

as Scarecrow - Union Prisoner at Libby (uncredited)

The Grapes of Wrath

as Deputy (uncredited)

as Guard (uncredited)

Little Old New York

as Man in Mob About to Set 'Clermont' Afire

The Invisible Man Returns

as Miner (uncredited)

The Light That Failed

Destry Rides Again

as Creepy - Lends Tom Guns (uncredited)

We Are Not Alone

as Man Carrying Leni

Tower of London

as Lead Murderer of the Children

Rulers of the Sea

as Seaman (Uncredited)

The Marshal Of Mesa City

as Henchman Bat Cardigan

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

as Second Fake Constable (uncredited)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

as Guard (uncredited)

Each Dawn I Die

Mutiny on the Blackhawk

The Sun Never Sets

as Zurof Camp Guard

Sons of Liberty

as Arresting British Trooper (uncredited)

The Story of Dr. Jenner

as Village Dairyman (uncredited)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

as Man Stealing Watermelon (uncredited)

Son of Frankenstein

as Bearded Gendarme (uncredited)

as Guard Accepting Bribe

Stand Up and Fight

as Bullet Line Blacksmith

A Christmas Carol

as Waiter (uncredited)

Heart of the North

as Miner Leading Mob (uncredited)

Valley of the Giants

Marie Antoinette

as Executioner (uncredited)

as Henchman Burke

The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Dickon Malbete

as Jim - the Second Guard (uncredited)

as Peasant Rebel Leader (uncredited)

The Prince and the Pauper

as Second Guard

The Soldier and the Lady

as Peasant (Uncredited)

as Sailor (uncredited)

as Guard (Uncredited)

You Only Live Once

as Guard (uncredited)

The White Angel

as Hospital Storekeeper (uncredited)

as Sam Dawson (guard with whip)

The Country Doctor

as Logger (uncredited)

Mutiny on the Bounty

as Soldier (uncredited)

as Stoker (uncredited)

as Guard (uncredited)

as Louie (uncredited)

Les Misérables

Naughty Marietta

as Pirate (uncredited)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

as Turk, an Opium Addict (uncredited)

Charlie Chan in Paris

as Gendarme Arresting Yvette (uncredited)

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

as Sentry (uncredited)

Great Expectations

The House of Rothschild

as Man (uncredited)

as Valerius' Soldier (uncredited)

To the Last Man

as Colby Man Fred (uncredited)

as First Orderly

as Dr. William G. Davis

The Girl in 419

as Henchman Driver

as Customer (Uncredited)

Secrets of the French Police

as Man Reading Newspaper (uncredited)

as Revolutionary (Uncredited)

The Cabin in the Cotton

as Ross Clinton (uncredited)

Merrily We Go to Hell

as Fred (uncredited)

The World and the Flesh

as Jake Farwell

as Chill Scarpelli

as Ivan (uncredited)

as Sailor Who Knocks Out Capt. Winter (uncredited)

Honor of the Family

I Like Your Nerve

as San Arango Officer (uncredited)

The Conquering Horde

as Butch Daggett

as Kirghiz Soldier at Fort Darvaz

The Right of Way

as Rouge's Henchman

as Chick Carson

Bride of the Regiment

as Sergeant Dostal

Captain of the Guard

The Isle of Lost Ships

Sins of the Fathers

as The Hijacker

The Last Command

as Revolutionist (uncredited)

Daredevil's Reward

as Second Heavy

Turkish Delight

as Steve McKenna