
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.

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
TV • 1951

Hopalong Cassidy
TV • 1952

Titanic
MOVIE • 1953

Sirocco
MOVIE • 1951

Red River
MOVIE • 1948

The Adventures of Robin Hood
MOVIE • 1938

Road Gang
MOVIE • 1936

East of Eden
MOVIE • 1955

The Grapes of Wrath
MOVIE • 1940

Mutiny on the Bounty
MOVIE • 1935

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
MOVIE • 1939

Christina
MOVIE • 1929

Mata Hari
MOVIE • 1931

Law and Order
MOVIE • 1953

The Wolf Man
MOVIE • 1941

Tap Roots
MOVIE • 1948

Fortunes of Captain Blood
MOVIE • 1950

King Richard and the Crusaders
MOVIE • 1954