Harry Cording

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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...

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East of EdenMovie • 1955The Adventures of Wild Bill HickokSeries • 1951The Adventures of Robin HoodMovie • 1938The Grapes of WrathMovie • 1940The Wolf ManMovie • 1941Mutiny on the BountyMovie • 1935The Hunchback of Notre DameMovie • 1939Red RiverMovie • 1948For Whom the Bell TollsMovie • 1943Captain BloodMovie • 1935TitanicMovie • 1953A Christmas CarolMovie • 1938Son of FrankensteinMovie • 1939Terror by NightMovie • 1946You Only Live OnceMovie • 1937SiroccoMovie • 1951The Invisible Man ReturnsMovie • 1940The Pearl of DeathMovie • 1944The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesMovie • 1939The Ghost of FrankensteinMovie • 1942The Sea HawkMovie • 1940The Black CatMovie • 1934Sherlock Holmes and the Secret WeaponMovie • 1942Mata HariMovie • 1931