
Harry Cording
Acting
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…
Also known as
Hector William Cording · Harry Gording · Hector William "Harry" Cording
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Known For

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951 · TV

Red River
1948 · Movie

The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938 · Movie

East of Eden
1955 · Movie

Hopalong Cassidy
1952 · TV

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939 · Movie

The Grapes of Wrath
1940 · Movie

Mutiny on the Bounty
1935 · Movie

For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943 · Movie

The Wolf Man
1941 · Movie

Titanic
1953 · Movie

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1953 · Movie