Personal Info
Birth date
1891-04-25 (134 Years)
Day of death
1954-09-01
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Wellington, Somerset, England, UK
Also known as
Hector William Cording
Harry Gording
Hector William "Harry" Cording
Harry Cording
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.
Filmography
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
4.5
Overview:
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.Hopalong Cassidy
5.2
Overview:
Hopalong Cassidy was television's first western program. The series aired on NBC and stared William Boyd as the cowboy Hopalong Cassidy.Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
6.293
Overview:
In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he quickly falls into the clutches of the evil Professor Moriarty.Daniel Boone
4.643
Overview:
In 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites.To the Last Man
5.7
Overview:
In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Nevada and when Colby gets out of prison he heads there also seeking revenge. The head of the Hayden family tries to avoid more killing but the inevitable showdown has to occur, complicated by Lynn Hayden and Ellen Colby's plans to marry.The Intruder
4.2
Overview:
A murder is committed aboard a cruise ship just before it sinks in a storm. The survivors, including the killer, land on a mysterious jungle island.The Adventures of Robin Hood
7.466
Overview:
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.East of Eden
7.55
Overview:
In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.Terror by Night
6.5
Overview:
Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.Titanic
6.6
Overview:
Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the Titanic. Her husband, Richard also arranges passage on the luxury liner so as to have custody of their two children. All this fades to insignificance once the ship hits an iceberg.The Big Trees
5.606
Overview:
In 1900, unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions off California redwood. Much of the land he hopes to grab has been homesteaded by a Quaker colony, who try to persuade him to spare the giant sequoias...but these are the very trees he wants most. Expert at manipulating others, Fallon finds that other sharks are at his own heels, and forms an unlikely alliance.The Wolf Man
7.007
Overview:
After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.Red River
7.353
Overview:
Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. During the exhausting journey, his persistence becomes tyrannical in the eyes of Matthew Garth, his adopted son and protégé.The Hunchback of Notre Dame
7.299
Overview:
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.Mutiny on the Bounty
7.356
Overview:
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.Dressed to Kill
6.5
Overview:
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.Captain Kidd
6
Overview:
Cutthroat pirate William Kidd captures Admiral Blayne's treasure ship and hides the bounty in a cave. Three years later, Kidd, posing as a respectable merchant captain, offers his services to the King of England. Seeking a social position, Kidd also negotiates for Blayne's title and lands, provided he can prove Blayne was associated with piracy. Launched upon his royal mission, Kidd is unaware that Blayne's son Adam is among the crew, determined to clear his father's name.Santa Fe Trail
5.7
Overview:
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.Man in the Attic
5.5
Overview:
London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for "experiments." Mrs. Harley finds Slade odd and increasingly suspects the worst; her niece Lily (star of a decidedly Parisian stage revue) finds him interesting and increasingly attractive. Is Lily in danger, or are her mother's suspicions merely a red herring?Bluebeard
5.5
Overview:
Young female models are being strangled. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before more women become victims?Road to Bali
6.3
Overview:
Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the way to Bali where they vie with each other for the favours of Princess Lala. The hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels which arouses the less romantic interest of some shady locals.The Grapes of Wrath
7.821
Overview:
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.For Whom the Bell Tolls
6.539
Overview:
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.Les Misérables
7.173
Overview:
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.Son of Frankenstein
6.7
Overview:
One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.The Last Command
7.3
Overview:
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.The Ghost of Frankenstein
5.8
Overview:
Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.You Only Live Once
7.128
Overview:
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.Dark Command
6.3
Overview:
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.California
6.5
Overview:
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.Acting
1955East of Eden as Bouncer (uncredited)
1954Jungle Gents as Henchman Shanks
1954The Black Shield of Falworth as Captain of King's Guards (uncredited)
1954Killer Leopard as Supt. Saunders
1954King Richard and the Crusaders as Castelaine Spokesman (uncredited)
1953Man in the Attic as Detective Sgt. Bates
1953Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Rough Character in the Park
1953Law and Order as Townsman (uncredited)
1953Ambush at Tomahawk Gap as Stableman (uncredited)
1953Titanic as Boiler Room Engineer (uncredited)
1953Road to Bali as Verna’s Father (uncredited)
1952Against All Flags as Gow
1952Hopalong Cassidy (1 Episode) as Unknown
1952Captain Pirate as Col. Ramsey's Overseer (uncredited)
1952Cripple Creek as Hibbs (uncredited)
1952Brave Warrior as Shayne MacGregor
1952Night Stage to Galveston as Ted Driscoll
1952The Big Trees as Cleve Gregg
1951Mask of the Avenger as Zio d'Orsini
1951The Strange Door as Unknown
1951Sirocco as Master Sergeant (uncredited)
1951The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1 Episode) as Unknown
1951Santa Fe as Moose Legrande
1951Al Jennings of Oklahoma as Mike Bridges
1950Last of the Buccaneers as Brown
1950Convicted as Convict in Prison Yard (uncredited)
1950The Iroquois Trail as Unknown
1950Fortunes of Captain Blood as Will Ward
1950Buccaneer's Girl as Unknown
1950Tyrant of the Sea as Sampson Edwards
1949The Secret Of St. Ives as Innkeeper (uncredited)
1948Red River as Gambler (uncredited)
1948Tap Roots as Leader (uncredited)
1948That Lady in Ermine as Orlando (uncredited)
194813 Lead Soldiers as Edward Vane
1948The Black Arrow as Guard (uncredited)
1948A Woman's Vengeance as Chauffeur McNabb
1947Trail of the Mounties as Hawkins
1947The Exile as Roundhead (uncredited)
1947The Marauders as Riker
1947Dangerous Venture as Morgan
1947California as Miner (uncredited)
1946Calcutta as Tea Planter (uncredited)
1946Fool's Gold as Duke
1946Hot Cargo as Matt Wayne
1946Inside Job as Bartender
1946Dressed to Kill as Hamid
1946Devotion as Coachman with Frightened Horses (uncredited)
1946Terror by Night as Mock the Undertaker (uncredited)
1945Captain Kidd as Newgate Prison Warder (uncredited)
1945The Fatal Witness as Gus
1945Sudan as Uba
1945The House of Fear as John Simpson
1945The Man in Half Moon Street as Bobby
1944Lost in a Harem as Police Chief (uncredited)
1944Bluebeard as Policeman (Uncredited)
1944Mrs. Parkington as Humphrey
1944Gypsy Wildcat as Captain Marver
1944The Pearl of Death as George Gelder (uncredited)
1944The Great Alaskan Mystery as Captain Greeder
1944Phantom Lady as Courtroom Spectator Next to Carol (uncredited)
1944Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves as Mahmoud
1943The Spider Woman as Fred Garvin (uncredited)
1943The Man from the Rio Grande as John King
1943For Whom the Bell Tolls as Man Who Flails the Mayor
1943Don't You Believe It as Rogue
1943Fugitive from Sonora as Iron Joe Martin
1943Two Tickets to London as Sutliff (uncredited)
1943Mission to Moscow as Blacksmith (uncredited)
1943The Moon Is Down as Miner (uncredited)
1942Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon as Jack Brady (uncredited)
1942Arabian Nights as Blacksmith
1942Road to Morocco as Warrior (uncredited)
1942The Mummy's Tomb as Vic - Farmer (uncredited)
1942Overland Mail as Sam Gregg - Henchman
1942Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror as Camberwell
1942The Spoilers as Miner (uncredited)
1942The Ghost of Frankenstein as Mob Leader (uncredited)
1942Ride 'Em Cowboy as Poker Player (uncredited)
1942Wild Bill Hickok Rides as Saloon Bouncer
1942Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake as Turnkey (uncredited)
1941Riders of the Badlands as Blacksmith Higgins
1941The Wolf Man as Wykes (uncredited)
1941Lydia as Hotel House Detective
1941Badlands of Dakota as Jackson
1941Rawhide Rangers as Blackie
1941Raiders of the Desert as Rawlins
1941They Met in Bombay as Corporal at Base (uncredited)
1941Singapore Woman as Crow's Nest Manager (uncredited)
1941Mutiny in the Arctic as Harmon
1941The Lady from Cheyenne as Mike, Cork's Henchman
1941Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie as J. L. Red Clinton
1941So Ends Our Night as Card Player (uncredited)
1940The Green Hornet Strikes Again! as Dannick - Crooked Construction Foreman
1940Santa Fe Trail as Workman in Delaware Crossing (uncredited)
1940Trail of the Vigilantes as Phil
1940The Great Plane Robbery as Eddie Lindo
1940Law and Order as Poe Daggett
1940A Dispatch from Reuters as Sailor on the Nova Scotian (uncredited)
1940King of the Royal Mounted as Wade Garson
1940When the Daltons Rode as Rigby Henchman
1940The Sea Hawk as Slavemaster
1940Stage to Chino as Pete Brannigan
1940Passport to Alcatraz as Jeffers
1940Florian as Leader
1940Texas Stagecoach as Clancy
1940Dark Command as Angry Townsman in Bank
1940The House of the Seven Gables as Blacksmith Hawkins
1940Virginia City as Scarecrow - Union Prisoner at Libby (uncredited)
1940The Grapes of Wrath as Deputy (uncredited)
1940Strange Cargo as Guard (uncredited)
1940Little Old New York as Man in Mob About to Set 'Clermont' Afire
1940The Invisible Man Returns as Miner (uncredited)
1939The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Guard (uncredited)
1939The Light That Failed as Soldier
1939Destry Rides Again as Creepy - Lends Tom Guns (uncredited)
1939We Are Not Alone as Man Carrying Leni
1939Tower of London as Lead Murderer of the Children
1939Rulers of the Sea as Seaman (Uncredited)
1939The Marshal Of Mesa City as Henchman Bat Cardigan
1939The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as Second Fake Constable (uncredited)
1939Each Dawn I Die as Temple
1939Mutiny on the Blackhawk as Bos'un
1939The Sun Never Sets as Zurof Camp Guard
1939Sons of Liberty as Arresting British Trooper (uncredited)
1939The Story of Dr. Jenner as Village Dairyman (uncredited)
1939The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as Man Stealing Watermelon (uncredited)
1939Arizona Legion as Whiskey Joe
1939Son of Frankenstein as Bearded Gendarme (uncredited)
1939Devil's Island as Guard Accepting Bribe
1939Stand Up and Fight as Bullet Line Blacksmith
1938A Christmas Carol as Waiter (uncredited)
1938Heart of the North as Miner Leading Mob (uncredited)
1938Valley of the Giants as Greer
1938Marie Antoinette as Executioner (uncredited)
1938Painted Desert as Henchman Burke
1938The Adventures of Robin Hood as Dickon Malbete
1938Crime School as Jim - the Second Guard (uncredited)
1937Song of Revolt as Peasant Rebel Leader (uncredited)
1937The Prince and the Pauper as Second Guard
1937The Soldier and the Lady as Peasant (Uncredited)
1937Sea Devils as Sailor (uncredited)
1937Maid of Salem as Guard (Uncredited)
1937You Only Live Once as Guard (uncredited)
1936Daniel Boone as Joe Burch
1936The White Angel as Hospital Storekeeper (uncredited)
1936Road Gang as Sam Dawson (guard with whip)
1936The Country Doctor as Logger (uncredited)
1936Sutter's Gold as Seaman Lars
1935Captain Blood as Kent
1935Mutiny on the Bounty as Soldier (uncredited)
1935Ship Cafe as Stoker (uncredited)
1935Peter Ibbetson as Guard (uncredited)
1935Black Fury as Louie (uncredited)
1935Les Misérables as Beam Warder
1935Naughty Marietta as Pirate (uncredited)
1935Charlie Chan in Paris as Gendarme Arresting Yvette (uncredited)
1935The Lives of a Bengal Lancer as Sentry (uncredited)
1934Strange Wives as Tribesman
1934We Live Again as Jailer
1934Great Expectations as Orlick
1934The Black Cat as Thamal
1934The House of Rothschild as Man (uncredited)
1933To the Last Man as Colby Man Fred (uncredited)
1933Captured! as First Orderly
1933Narcotic as Dr. William G. Davis
1933The Girl in 419 as Henchman Driver
1933Sweepings as Customer (Uncredited)
1933The Intruder as Cramer
1933File 113 as Michele
1932Scarlet Dawn as Revolutionary (Uncredited)
1932The Cabin in the Cotton as Ross Clinton (uncredited)
1932Merrily We Go to Hell as Fred (uncredited)
1932The World and the Flesh as Ivanovitch
1932Texas Cyclone as Jake Farwell
1931Night Beat as Chill Scarpelli
1931Mata Hari as Ivan (uncredited)
1931The Sea Ghost as Sailor Who Knocks Out Capt. Winter (uncredited)
1931Honor of the Family as Kouski
1931The Conquering Horde as Butch Daggett
1930New Moon as Kirghiz Soldier at Fort Darvaz
1930The Right of Way as Rouge's Henchman
1930Rough Romance as Chick Carson
1930Bride of the Regiment as Sergeant Dostal
1930Captain of the Guard as Le Bruin
1929Christina as Dick Torpe
1929The Isle of Lost Ships as Gallagher
1929The Squall as Peter
1928Sins of the Fathers as The Hijacker
1928The Patriot as Stefan
1928The Last Command as Revolutionist (uncredited)
1928Daredevil's Reward as Second Heavy
1927Black Jack as Haskins
1925The Knockout as Steve McKenna