Harry Cording (Actor)

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Movies starring Harry Cording have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 64%.

The Grapes of Wrath - released in 1940 - is Harry Cording's highest rated movie, with a score of 85% based on 709 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Harry Cording is Texas Cyclone - released in 1932 - with a score of 42% based on 2 reviews.

Actor Biography

Hector William "Harry" Cording (26 April 1891 – 1 September 1954) was a British character actor.

Cording was born Hector William Cording on 26 April 1891 in Wellington, Somerset. He was brought up and was educated in his native England, and later settled permanently in Los Angeles, where he began a film career. His first role was as a henchmen in The Knockout (1925), followed by similar roles over the next few years. Cording appeared in many Hollywood films from the 1920s to the 1950s. With an imposing six-foot height, stocky build, and perhaps due to his uncomfortable resemblance to veteran film bad guy Oskar Homolka, "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.

Cording died on 1 September 1954. The cause of death was not documented. His wife was Margaret Cording, née Fiero, (1912–91), a native of Michigan; their daughter, Margaret Rose, was born on 7 November 1939. The Cordings lived at 4104 Farmdale Avenue, North Hollywood. Harry Cording was an active member of the Loyal Order of Moose fraternity.

Harry Cording has acted in films with Colin Kenny, Leyland Hodgson, Frank Hagney and Herbert Evans.

Harry Cording has worked with these film directors: Michael Curtiz, Henry Hathaway, Roy William Neill and William Keighley.