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Harry Cording

Acting Born Apr 25, 1891 Wellington, Somerset, England, UK 24 credits

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.

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Known for

Hopalong Cassidy

1952

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

1951
Film

East of Eden

as Bouncer (uncredited)
Film

The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Dickon Malbete
Film

Titanic

as Boiler Room Engineer (uncredited)
Film

The Grapes of Wrath

as Deputy (uncredited)
Film

Red River

as Gambler (uncredited)
Film

The Wolf Man

as Wykes (uncredited)

Captain Tsubasa: Road to 2002

as Thamal

Air

as Slavemaster
Film

Mutiny on the Bounty

as Soldier (uncredited)
Film

Sirocco

as Master Sergeant (uncredited)

Full filmography

  • Hopalong Cassidy (1952)
  • The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951)
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) as Guard (uncredited)
  • East of Eden (1955) as Bouncer (uncredited)
  • The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) as Dickon Malbete
  • Titanic (1953) as Boiler Room Engineer (uncredited)
  • The Grapes of Wrath (1940) as Deputy (uncredited)
  • Red River (1948) as Gambler (uncredited)
  • The Wolf Man (1941) as Wykes (uncredited)
  • The Black Cat (1934) as Thamal
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) as Man Who Flails the Mayor
  • Captain Blood (1935) as Kent
  • The Sea Hawk (1940) as Slavemaster
  • Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) as Soldier (uncredited)
  • Dressed to Kill (1946) as Hamid
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942) as Jack Brady (uncredited)
  • Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944) as Mahmoud
  • Les Misérables (1935) as Beam Warder
  • Tap Roots (1948) as Leader (uncredited)
  • Son of Frankenstein (1939) as Bearded Gendarme (uncredited)
  • Sirocco (1951) as Master Sergeant (uncredited)
  • Convicted (1950) as Convict in Prison Yard (uncredited)
  • The Patriot (1928) as Stefan
  • Santa Fe Trail (1940) as Workman in Delaware Crossing (uncredited)