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Acting

Harry Cording

Born
Apr 25, 1891 · Aged 63
Died
Sep 1, 1954
Place of birth
Wellington, Somerset, England, UK
Gender
Male
Movie credits
204
TV credits
2
Also known as (3)
  • Hector William Cording
  • Harry Gording
  • Hector William "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…