Acting
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.
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951 · TV
Hopalong Cassidy
1952 · TV
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939 · Movie
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938 · Movie
Red River
1948 · Movie
The Grapes of Wrath
1940 · Movie
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943 · Movie
East of Eden
1955 · Movie
Mutiny on the Bounty
1935 · Movie
Terror by Night
1946 · Movie
The Wolf Man
1941 · Movie
Titanic
1953 · Movie
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
1944 · Movie
Captain Blood
1935 · Movie
Sirocco
1951 · Movie
The Sea Hawk
1940 · Movie
A Christmas Carol
1938 · Movie
Son of Frankenstein
1939 · Movie
Naughty Marietta
1935 · Movie
The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942 · Movie
Peter Ibbetson
1935 · Movie
Tap Roots
1948 · Movie
Mata Hari
1931 · Movie
Turkish Delight
1927 · Movie
Destry Rides Again
1939 · Movie
A Volta do Besouro Verde
1940 · Movie
Les Misérables
1935 · Movie
The Invisible Man Returns
1940 · Movie
Santa Fe Trail
1940 · Movie
Dressed to Kill
1946 · Movie
King Richard and the Crusaders
1954 · Movie
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939 · Movie
The Black Shield of Falworth
1954 · Movie
The Patriot
1928 · Movie
Night Beat
1931 · Movie
The Pearl of Death
1944 · Movie
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
1942 · Movie
Forever Amber
1947 · Movie
Law and Order
1953 · Movie
You Only Live Once
1937 · Movie
The Black Cat
1934 · Movie
Charlie Chan in Paris
1935 · Movie
Marie Antoinette
1938 · Movie
Merrily We Go to Hell
1932 · Movie
The Big Trees
1952 · Movie
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
1951 · Movie
Arabian Nights
1942 · Movie
Against All Flags
1952 · Movie
The Prince and the Pauper
1937 · Movie
The House of the Seven Gables
1940 · Movie
Road Gang
1936 · Movie
The Mummy's Tomb
1942 · Movie
The Spoilers
1942 · Movie
Phantom Lady
1944 · Movie
Virginia City
1940 · Movie
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939 · Movie
The Verdict
1946 · Movie
Valley of the Giants
1938 · Movie
Captain Kidd
1945 · Movie
The Strange Door
1951 · Movie
Road to Morocco
1942 · Movie
Mask of the Avenger
1951 · Movie
Ride 'Em Cowboy
1941 · Movie
California
1947 · Movie
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1935 · Movie
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1953 · Movie
Fortunes of Captain Blood
1950 · Movie
Iron Man
1951 · Movie
Stand Up and Fight
1939 · Movie
The House of Fear
1945 · Movie
The Last Command
1928 · Movie
Buccaneer's Girl
1950 · Movie
Dark Command
1940 · Movie
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941 · Movie
Mission to Moscow
1943 · Movie
Roman Scandals
1933 · Movie
Devil's Island
1939 · Movie
The Black Arrow
1948 · Movie
Lost in a Harem
1944 · Movie
The House of Rothschild
1934 · Movie
The Moon Is Down
1943 · Movie
Road to Bali
1952 · Movie
The Spider Woman
1943 · Movie
Strange Cargo
1940 · Movie
Rough Romance
1930 · Movie
The Exile
1947 · Movie
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942 · Movie
Little Old New York
1940 · Movie
Convicted
1950 · Movie
Man in the Attic
1953 · Movie
Cripple Creek
1952 · Movie
Great Expectations
1934 · Movie
The Great Plane Robbery
1940 · Movie
Sweepings
1933 · Movie
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1935 · Movie
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
1942 · Movie
When the Daltons Rode
1940 · Movie
Mrs. Parkington
1944 · Movie
Heart of the North
1938 · Movie
Each Dawn I Die
1939 · Movie
Daredevil's Reward
1928 · Movie
Honor of the Family
1931 · Movie
Santa Fe
1951 · Movie
They Met in Bombay
1941 · Movie
A Woman's Vengeance
1948 · Movie
Black Fury
1935 · Movie
Treasure of the Golden Condor
1953 · Movie
The Man in Half Moon Street
1945 · Movie
Crime School
1938 · Movie
The Soldier and the Lady
1937 · Movie
Tower of London
1939 · Movie
Christina
1929 · Movie
That Lady in Ermine
1948 · Movie
So Ends Our Night
1941 · Movie
Trail of the Vigilantes
1940 · Movie
Calcutta
1946 · Movie
Brave Warrior
1952 · Movie
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942 · Movie
Lydia
1941 · Movie
The Fatal Witness
1945 · Movie
Badlands of Dakota
1941 · Movie
The Country Doctor
1936 · Movie
Devotion
1946 · Movie
King of the Royal Mounted
1940 · Movie
We Are Not Alone
1939 · Movie
There's Something About a Soldier
1943 · Movie
The Right of Way
1930 · Movie
Singapore Woman
1941 · Movie
Sudan
1945 · Movie
Maid of Salem
1937 · Movie
Captured!
1933 · Movie
Daniel Boone
1936 · Movie
The Light That Failed
1939 · Movie
We Live Again
1934 · Movie
The Girl in 419
1933 · Movie
Strange Wives
1934 · Movie
The Cabin in the Cotton
1932 · Movie
The Sun Never Sets
1939 · Movie
Ambush at Tomahawk Gap
1953 · Movie
Last of the Buccaneers
1950 · Movie
Bluebeard
1944 · Movie
Texas Cyclone
1932 · Movie
The Intruder
1933 · Movie
Secrets of the French Police
1932 · Movie
The White Angel
1936 · Movie
Sutter's Gold
1936 · Movie
The Iroquois Trail
1950 · Movie
A Dispatch from Reuters
1940 · Movie
Captain Pirate
1952 · Movie
I Like Your Nerve
1931 · Movie
Rulers of the Sea
1939 · Movie
Tyrant of the Sea
1950 · Movie
Sons of Liberty
1939 · Movie
File 113
1933 · Movie
Sins of the Fathers
1928 · Movie
Two Tickets to London
1943 · Movie
Gypsy Wildcat
1944 · Movie
The Squall
1929 · Movie
Passport to Alcatraz
1940 · Movie
Mutiny on the Blackhawk
1939 · Movie
Raiders of the Desert
1941 · Movie
To the Last Man
1933 · Movie
Narcotic
1933 · Movie
The Great Alaskan Mystery
1944 · Movie
The Man from the Rio Grande
1943 · Movie
Overland Mail
1942 · Movie
Ship Cafe
1935 · Movie
The Marshal Of Mesa City
1939 · Movie
Arizona Legion
1939 · Movie
Riders of the Badlands
1941 · Movie
New Moon
1930 · Movie
Florian
1940 · Movie
Scarlet Dawn
1932 · Movie
Law and Order
1940 · Movie
Inside Job
1946 · Movie
Jungle Gents
1954 · Movie
The Marauders
1947 · Movie
Texas Stagecoach
1940 · Movie
The World and the Flesh
1932 · Movie
Stage to Chino
1940 · Movie
Night Stage to Galveston
1952 · Movie
The Sea Ghost
1931 · Movie
Sea Devils
1937 · Movie
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
1941 · Movie
Killer Leopard
1954 · Movie
Hot Cargo
1946 · Movie
Fugitive from Sonora
1943 · Movie
Bride of the Regiment
1930 · Movie
Mutiny in the Arctic
1941 · Movie
Don't You Believe It
1943 · Movie
Captain of the Guard
1930 · Movie
Black Jack
1927 · Movie
Dangerous Venture
1947 · Movie
Painted Desert
1938 · Movie
13 Lead Soldiers
1948 · Movie
The Conquering Horde
1931 · Movie
The Knockout
1925 · Movie
Song of Revolt
1937 · Movie
Rawhide Rangers
1941 · Movie
Trail of the Mounties
1947 · Movie
The Isle of Lost Ships
1929 · Movie
Fool's Gold
1946 · Movie
The Story of Dr. Jenner
1939 · Movie
