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Birthday
April 25, 1891
Day of Death
1954-09-01
(63 years old)
Place of Birth
Wellington, Somerset, England, UK
Also Known As
Hector William Cording
Harry Gording
Hector William "Harry" Cording
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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Lost in a Harem
as Police Chief (uncredited)
Bluebeard
as Policeman (Uncredited)
Mrs. Parkington
as Humphrey
Gypsy Wildcat
as Captain Marver
The Pearl of Death
as George Gelder (uncredited)
The Great Alaskan Mystery
as Captain Greeder
Phantom Lady
as Courtroom Spectator Next to Carol (uncredited)
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
as Mahmoud
1943
The Spider Woman
as Fred Garvin (uncredited)
The Man from the Rio Grande
as John King
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Man Who Flails the Mayor
Don't You Believe It
as Rogue
Fugitive from Sonora
as Iron Joe Martin
Two Tickets to London
as Sutliff (uncredited)
Mission to Moscow
as Blacksmith (uncredited)
The Moon Is Down
as Miner (uncredited)
1942
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
as Jack Brady (uncredited)
Arabian Nights
as Blacksmith
Road to Morocco
as Warrior (uncredited)
The Mummy's Tomb
as Vic - Farmer (uncredited)
Overland Mail
as Sam Gregg - Henchman
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
as Camberwell
The Spoilers
as Miner (uncredited)
The Ghost of Frankenstein
as Mob Leader (uncredited)
Ride 'Em Cowboy
as Poker Player (uncredited)
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
as Saloon Bouncer
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
as Turnkey (uncredited)
1941
Riders of the Badlands
as Blacksmith Higgins
The Wolf Man
as Wykes (uncredited)
Lydia
as Hotel House Detective
Badlands of Dakota
as Jackson
Rawhide Rangers
as Blackie
Raiders of the Desert
as Rawlins
They Met in Bombay
as Corporal at Base (uncredited)
Singapore Woman
as Crow's Nest Manager (uncredited)
Mutiny in the Arctic
as Harmon
The Lady from Cheyenne
as Mike, Cork's Henchman
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
as J. L. Red Clinton
So Ends Our Night
as Card Player (uncredited)
1940
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
as Dannick - Crooked Construction Foreman
Santa Fe Trail
as Workman in Delaware Crossing (uncredited)
Trail of the Vigilantes
as Phil
The Great Plane Robbery
as Eddie Lindo
A Dispatch from Reuters
as Sailor on the Nova Scotian (uncredited)
King of the Royal Mounted
as Wade Garson
When the Daltons Rode
as Rigby Henchman
The Sea Hawk
as Slavemaster
Stage to Chino
as Pete Brannigan
Passport to Alcatraz
as Jeffers
Florian
as Leader
Texas Stagecoach
as Clancy
Dark Command
as Angry Townsman in Bank
The House of the Seven Gables
as Blacksmith Hawkins
Virginia City
as Scarecrow - Union Prisoner at Libby (uncredited)
The Grapes of Wrath
as Deputy (uncredited)
Strange Cargo
as Guard (uncredited)
Little Old New York
as Man in Mob About to Set 'Clermont' Afire
The Invisible Man Returns
as Miner (uncredited)
1939
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Guard (uncredited)
The Light That Failed
as Soldier
Destry Rides Again
as Creepy - Lends Tom Guns (uncredited)
We Are Not Alone
as Man Carrying Leni
Tower of London
as Lead Murderer of the Children
Rulers of the Sea
as Seaman (Uncredited)
The Marshal Of Mesa City
as Henchman Bat Cardigan
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
as Second Fake Constable (uncredited)
Each Dawn I Die
as Temple
Mutiny on the Blackhawk
as Bos'un
The Sun Never Sets
as Zurof Camp Guard
Sons of Liberty
as Arresting British Trooper (uncredited)
The Story of Dr. Jenner
as Village Dairyman (uncredited)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Man Stealing Watermelon (uncredited)
Arizona Legion
as Whiskey Joe
Son of Frankenstein
as Bearded Gendarme (uncredited)
Devil's Island
as Guard Accepting Bribe
Stand Up and Fight
as Bullet Line Blacksmith
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1935
Captain Blood
as Kent
Mutiny on the Bounty
as Soldier (uncredited)
Ship Cafe
as Stoker (uncredited)
Peter Ibbetson
as Guard (uncredited)
Black Fury
as Louie (uncredited)
Les Misérables
as Beam Warder
Naughty Marietta
as Pirate (uncredited)
Charlie Chan in Paris
as Gendarme Arresting Yvette (uncredited)
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
as Sentry (uncredited)
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