
Harry Cording
Born: 1891-04-25
Place of birth: 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

Overland Mail
1942

Trail of the Vigilantes
1940

The Great Plane Robbery
1940

Texas Stagecoach
1940

The Story of Dr. Jenner
1939

Black Jack
1927

Hot Cargo
1946

The Man from the Rio Grande
1943

Raiders of the Desert
1941

Law and Order
1940

Passport to Alcatraz
1940

Mutiny on the Blackhawk
1939

Ship Cafe
1935

Captain of the Guard
1930

Sins of the Fathers
1928

Daredevil's Reward
1928

Turkish Delight
1927

The Grapes of Wrath
1940