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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.
As actor
East of Eden
Killer Leopard
The Black Shield of Falworth
King Richard and the Crusaders
Jungle Gents
Man in the Attic
Law and Order
Titanic
Ambush at Tomahawk Gap
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Treasure of the Golden Condor
Cripple Creek
The Big Trees
Against All Flags
Road to Bali
Captain Pirate
Night Stage to Galveston
Brave Warrior
The Strange Door
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
Sirocco
Santa Fe
Mask of the Avenger
Iron Man
The Iroquois Trail
Fortunes of Captain Blood
Buccaneer's Girl
Last of the Buccaneers
Tyrant of the Sea
Convicted