
Actor
Harry Cording
Born 1891 · 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.
Acting

The Grapes of Wrath
Deputy (uncredited) · 1940

East of Eden
Bouncer (uncredited) · 1955

The Adventures of Robin Hood
Dickon Malbete · 1938

Red River
Gambler (uncredited) · 1948

The Wolf Man
Wykes (uncredited) · 1941

Mutiny on the Bounty
Soldier (uncredited) · 1935

Captain Blood
Kent · 1935

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Guard (uncredited) · 1939

The Black Cat
Thamal · 1934

Destry Rides Again
Creepy - Lends Tom Guns (uncredited) · 1939

You Only Live Once
Guard (uncredited) · 1937

Son of Frankenstein
Bearded Gendarme (uncredited) · 1939

The Sea Hawk
Slavemaster · 1940

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Second Fake Constable (uncredited) · 1939

A Christmas Carol
Waiter (uncredited) · 1938

For Whom the Bell Tolls
Man Who Flails the Mayor · 1943

Phantom Lady
Courtroom Spectator Next to Carol (uncredited) · 1944

The Last Command
Revolutionist (uncredited) · 1928

Titanic
Boiler Room Engineer (uncredited) · 1953

Terror by Night
Mock the Undertaker (uncredited) · 1946

The House of Fear
John Simpson · 1945

The Pearl of Death
George Gelder (uncredited) · 1944

Dressed to Kill
Hamid · 1946

The Spider Woman
Fred Garvin (uncredited) · 1943