Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
190
Gender
Male
Birthday
April 25, 1891 ( 63 years old )
Place of Birth
Wellington, Somerset, England, UK
Also Known As
Hector William Cording
Harry Gording
Hector William "Harry" Cording
Harry Cording
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hector William "Harry" Cording (26 April 1891 – 1 September 1954) 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.
Known For
Cripple Creek
1952-06-30A Woman's Vengeance
1948-03-02The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942-03-13The Secret Of St. Ives
1949-06-30Dressed to Kill
1946-05-24Hot Cargo
1946-06-28The Black Cat
1934-05-07The House of Fear
1945-03-16The Pearl of Death
1944-08-01The Wolf Man
1941-12-12