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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| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East of Eden (1955) | Bouncer (uncredited) | 7.6 | |
| 2 | Man in the Attic (1953) | Detective Sgt. Bates | 4 | |
| 3 | Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953) | Rough Character in the Park | 6.3 | |
| 4 | Titanic (1953) | Boiler Room Engineer (uncredited) | 7 | |
| 5 | Road to Bali (1952) | Verna’s Father (uncredited) | 9 | |
| 6 | Against All Flags (1952) | Gow | 6 | |
| 7 | The Strange Door (1951) | - | 5 | |
| 8 | Sirocco (1951) | Master Sergeant (uncredited) | 6 | |
| 9 | Iron Man (1951) | Miner (uncredited) | 6 | |
| 10 | Buccaneer's Girl (1950) | Barfly (uncredited) | - | - |
| 11 | Convicted (1950) | Convict in Prison Yard (uncredited) | 5 | |
| 12 | That Lady in Ermine (1948) | Orlando (uncredited) | - | - |
| 13 | Red River (1948) | Gambler (uncredited) | 6.4 | |
| 14 | Dressed to Kill (1946) | Hamid | 6 | |
| 15 | The Verdict (1946) | Tough Englishman (uncredited) | 6 | |
| 16 | Inside Job (1946) | Bartender | 6 | |
| 17 | Terror by Night (1946) | Mock the Undertaker (uncredited) | 6.5 | |
| 18 | Calcutta (1946) | Tea Planter (uncredited) | 6 | |
| 19 | The House of Fear (1945) | John Simpson | 7 | |
| 20 | The Pearl of Death (1944) | George Gelder (uncredited) | 6.7 | |
| 21 | Mrs. Parkington (1944) | Humphrey | - | - |
| 22 | Bluebeard (1944) | Policeman (Uncredited) | 6 | |
| 23 | Phantom Lady (1944) | Courtroom Spectator Next to Carol (uncredited) | 6 | |
| 24 | For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) | Man Who Flails the Mayor | 6 | |
| 25 | The Spider Woman (1943) | Fred Garvin (uncredited) | 6 | |
| 26 | Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) | Camberwell | 5 | |
| 27 | Arabian Nights (1942) | Blacksmith | 5 | |
| 28 | The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) | Mob Leader (uncredited) | 8 | |
| 29 | Road to Morocco (1942) | Warrior (uncredited) | 6.5 | |
| 30 | The Mummy's Tomb (1942) | Vic - Farmer (uncredited) | 7 | |
| 31 | Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942) | Poker Player (uncredited) | - | - |
| 32 | Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942) | Jack Brady (uncredited) | 7 | |
| 33 | The Wolf Man (1941) | Wykes (uncredited) | 7.6 | |
| 34 | Badlands of Dakota (1941) | Jackson | - | - |
| 35 | The Invisible Man Returns (1940) | Miner (uncredited) | 5.3 | |
| 36 | The Grapes of Wrath (1940) | Deputy (uncredited) | 7.3 | |
| 37 | The Sea Hawk (1940) | Slavemaster | 6.5 | |
| 38 | Son of Frankenstein (1939) | Bearded Gendarme (uncredited) | 7.3 | |
| 39 | Destry Rides Again (1939) | Creepy - Lends Tom Guns (uncredited) | 7 | |
| 40 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) | Guard (uncredited) | 5 | |
| 41 | Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Temple | 5.5 | |
| 42 | Tower of London (1939) | Lead Murderer of the Children | 5.7 | |
| 43 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) | Second Fake Constable (uncredited) | 3 | |
| 44 | The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) | Dickon Malbete | 7.8 | |
| 45 | A Christmas Carol (1938) | Waiter (uncredited) | 6 | |
| 46 | Marie Antoinette (1938) | Executioner (uncredited) | - | - |
| 47 | You Only Live Once (1937) | Guard (uncredited) | 7 | |
| 48 | Peter Ibbetson (1935) | Guard (uncredited) | 3 | |
| 49 | Charlie Chan in Paris (1935) | Gendarme Arresting Yvette (uncredited) | - | - |
| 50 | Les Misérables (1935) | Beam Warder | 4 | |
| 51 | Naughty Marietta (1935) | Pirate (uncredited) | 4 | |
| 52 | Captain Blood (1935) | Kent | 7 | |
| 53 | The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) | Sentry (uncredited) | 5 | |
| 54 | Black Fury (1935) | Louie (uncredited) | - | - |
| 55 | Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) | Soldier (uncredited) | 6 | |
| 56 | The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935) | Turk, an Opium Addict (uncredited) | 5 | |
| 57 | The House of Rothschild (1934) | Man (uncredited) | 3 | |
| 58 | The Black Cat (1934) | Thamal | 7 | |
| 59 | Merrily We Go to Hell (1932) | Fred (uncredited) | 5 | |
| 60 | Mata Hari (1931) | Ivan (uncredited) | 5 | |
| 61 | The Patriot (1928) | Stefan | - | - |
| 62 | The Last Command (1928) | Revolutionist (uncredited) | 4 |
