Quiz

Appeared as eight different characters in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes films, the most of any bit player.

Probably best known as Sir Dickon Malbete, the disgraced knight sent by Sir Guy of Gisbourne to kill King Richard in exchange for getting his land and titles back, in La leggenda di Robin Hood (1938).

Entered films in 1921.

Appeared in twelve Best Picture Academy Award nominees: Lo zar folle (1928), La casa dei Rothschild (1934), Viva Villa! (1934), I lancieri del Bengala (1935), Terra senza donne (1935), Il sergente di ferro (1935), La tragedia del Bounty (1935), Capitan Blood (1935), La leggenda di Robin Hood (1938), Furore (1940) and Per chi suona la campana (1943). Mutiny on the Bounty was the only winner.

Profiled in "Character Actors in Horror and Science Fiction Films, 1930-1960" by Laurence Raw (2012).

The Cordings lived at 4104 Farmdale Avenue, North Hollywood.

His final role (once again as a sardonic henchman) came in the Bowery Boys comedy Jungle Gents (1954), which was released only four days after Cording passed away in Sun Valley, California.

Was an active member of the Loyal Order of Moose fraternity.

The son of a British soldier.

Buried at Glen Haven Memorial Park, Sylmar, Los Angeles County, California. Plot Brigham Park section, Lot 248, Grave 1.

Served in the army himself from 1910 to 1919, doing duty as an artillery gunner during the first World War.

Following the end of World War I, he sailed from England in late 1919, arriving in America in 1920.