Harry Cording
Birthday: 1891-04-25
Place of Birth: Wellington, Somerset, England, UK
Biography: 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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Mutiny on the Blackhawk
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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The Marshal Of Mesa City
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Night Beat
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Heart of the North
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King of the Royal Mounted
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Texas Stagecoach
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Fugitive from Sonora
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The Country Doctor
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East of Eden
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Little Old New York
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Valley of the Giants
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
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Jungle Gents
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Mutiny on the Bounty
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Law and Order
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Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
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The Lady from Cheyenne
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When the Daltons Rode
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Santa Fe Trail
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Virginia City
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Dark Command
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The World and the Flesh
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Scarlet Dawn
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The Sea Hawk
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Strange Cargo
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Dangerous Venture
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A Dispatch from Reuters
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Florian
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Don't You Believe It
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To the Last Man
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Road Gang
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Christina
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The Girl in 419
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Brave Warrior
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Riders of the Badlands
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Overland Mail
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The Man from the Rio Grande
The suspicious death of Henry King during a hunting trip with his brother John leaves the inheritanc...
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The Marauders
Hoppy, California and Lucky take refuge from a storm inside a supposedly abandoned church outside a ...
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Trail of the Mounties
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Badlands of Dakota
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
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The Spoilers
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Santa Fe
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
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So Ends Our Night
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Arabian Nights
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Texas Cyclone
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Mata Hari
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The Spider Woman
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A Christmas Carol
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Terror by Night
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Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
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The Right of Way
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The Soldier and the Lady
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Inside Job
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Singapore Woman
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The Cabin in the Cotton
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Tyrant of the Sea
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Song of Revolt
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The Last Command
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Gypsy Wildcat
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Sudan
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The Conquering Horde
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Honor of the Family
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Mission to Moscow
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File 113
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The Exile
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Maid of Salem
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Great Expectations
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Red River
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Rulers of the Sea
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Road to Morocco
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Lydia
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Lost in a Harem
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Captain Kidd
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The Knockout
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The Man in Half Moon Street
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Devotion
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Mask of the Avenger
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Tap Roots
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The Great Plane Robbery
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Marie Antoinette
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The Story of Dr. Jenner
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Mutiny in the Arctic
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Passport to Alcatraz
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Mrs. Parkington
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Black Fury
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13 Lead Soldiers
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California
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Les Misérables
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The House of Rothschild
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The Black Arrow
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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Secrets of the French Police
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I Like Your Nerve
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Roman Scandals
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Iron Man
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