Hank Worden
Born: 1901-07-23 in Rolfe, Iowa, USA
Died: 1992-12-06
Known For: Acting
Biography
Raised on a cattle ranch in Montana. Educated at Stanford and the University of Nevada as an engineer. Washed out as an Army pilot. Toured the country in rodeos as a saddle bronc rider. Broke his neck in a horsefall in his 20s, but didn't know it until his 40s. Chosen along with Tex Ritter from a rodeo at Madison Square Garden in New York to appear in the Broadway play "Green Grow the Lilacs", the play from which the musical "Oklahoma" was later derived. Drove a cab in New York, then worked on dude ranches as a wrangler and as a guide on the Bright Angel trail of the Grand Canyon. Recommended by Billie Burke to several movie producers. Became friends with John Wayne, Howard Hawks, and later John Ford, all of whom provided him with much work. Survived by adopted daughter Dawn Henry. Date of Death: 6 December 1992, Los Angeles, California, USA (natural causes)
Filmography
1992
- John Wayne's 'The Alamo' as Self
1990
- Twin Peaks as Waiter
- Cop Rock as 2nd Elderly Man
- Almost an Angel as Pop
- Big Bad John as Good Ole Boy
1988
- Once Upon a Texas Train as Old Timer
1985
- Runaway Train as Old Con
- Space Rage as Old Codger
1984
- The Ice Pirates as Elderly Jason
- UFOria as Colonel
1983
- Please Don't Eat the Babies as Gramps Jebediah
1982
- Knight Rider as Slim
- Hammett as Pool Room Attendant
1981
- Scream as John
- Soggy Bottom, U.S.A. as Old Geezer
1980
- Bronco Billy as Station Mechanic
1978
- Every Which Way but Loose as Trailer Court Manager
- Big Wednesday as Shopping Cart
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as Old Lonely Hearts Club Band
- They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way as Butch Collins
1977
- Smokey and the Bandit as Trucker (uncredited)
- Which Way Is Up? as The Flunky
- The Legend of Frank Woods as Slim
1975
- Sky Hei$t as Old Coot
1974
- The Hanged Man as Ab Wickes
1973
- Cahill: United States Marshal as Albert, Valentine Stationmaster
1971
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks as Old Home Guardsman (uncredited)
- Big Jake as Hank
- Black Noon as Joseph
- Zachariah as Old Cowboy (uncredited)
1968
1967
- Hondo and the Apaches as Miner
- The President's Analyst as Dirty Old Man (uncredited)
- Good Times as Kid
1965
1964
- Daniel Boone as Blue Belly (uncredited)
1963
- Petticoat Junction as Farmer
- McLintock! as Curly Fletcher
1962
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- The Music Man as Undertaker
1961
- One-Eyed Jacks as Doc
1960
- The Alamo as Parson
- Sergeant Rutledge as Laredo (uncredited)
1959
- Bonanza as Station Attendant
- Rawhide as Driver
- The Horse Soldiers as Deacon Clump
1958
- Bronco
- The Toughest Gun in Tombstone as Liveryman
- Bullwhip as Tex
- The Notorious Mr. Monks as Pete
1957
- Wagon Train as Hank
- Forty Guns as Marshal John Chisum
- Spoilers of the Forest as Pat Casey
- Dragoon Wells Massacre as Hopi Charlie
- The Buckskin Lady as Lon
- The Quiet Gun as Sampson
1956
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie
- The Searchers as Mose Harper
- Davy Crockett and the River Pirates as Fiddler
- Accused of Murder as Les Fuller
- Thunder Over Arizona as Old Jonas
1955
- Gunsmoke as Claude
- Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier as Cave Bar Patron (uncredited)
- The Indian Fighter as Crazy Bear / Guardhouse Keeper
1953
- Crime Wave as Sweeney (uncredited)
1952
- The Big Sky as Poordevil
- Apache War Smoke as Amber
- Boots Malone as Auto Mechanic
- Woman of the North Country as Tom Gordon
1951
- Comin' Round the Mountain as Shooting Match Official
- Triple Cross as Hard-of-Hearing Farmer
- Sugarfoot as Johnny Behind-the-Stove
1950
- Wagon Master as Luke Clegg
- When Willie Comes Marching Home as American Legionnaire Band Leader (uncredited)
- Frenchie as Mr. Grady (uncredited)
- Father Is a Bachelor as Finnegan (uncredited)
1949
- The Lone Ranger as Rusty Bates
- The Fighting Kentuckian as Abner Todd
- Roseanna McCoy as Jacob (uncredited)
- Cover Up as Undertaker
- Hellfire as Witness (uncredited)
1948
- Red River as Simms Reeves
- 3 Godfathers as Deputy Curly
- Fort Apache as Southern Recruit
- Yellow Sky as Rancher, Bank Customer (uncredited)
- Tap Roots as Cropper (uncredited)
- The Sainted Sisters as Taub Beasley
- Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' as Clem (uncredited)
- Hazard as Man in Cheap Hotel (uncredited)
- The Man from Texas as (uncredited)
- Whispering Smith
1947
- Angel and the Badman as Townsman (uncredited)
- High Wall
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty as Western Character (uncredited)
- The Sea of Grass as Bill - Salt Fork Townsman (uncredited)
- Prairie Express as Deputy Clint
1946
- Duel in the Sun as Party Guest (uncredited)
- Undercurrent as Telegram Delivery Man (uncredited)
- Lawless Breed as The Deputy
1945
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood as Joe (uncredited)
1944
- None Shall Escape as German Motorcycle Soldier (uncredited)
- The Great Moment as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced Roscoe Ates (uncredited)
1943
- So Proudly We Hail as Soldier on Troop Ship (Uncredited)
- Flesh and Fantasy as Circus Spectator (uncredited)
- The Woman of the Town as The Barber
- A Lady Takes a Chance as Waiter
- Black Market Rustlers as Slim
1942
- Deep in the Heart of Texas as Townsman
1941
- Border Vigilantes as Aunt Jennifer's Wagon Driver
- Robbers of the Range as Stagecoach Attendant (uncredited)
1940
- Northwest Passage as Ranger Tying Oars
- Brigham Young as Mormon Cheering Porter
- Beyond Tomorrow as Hospital Visitor (uncredited)
- Gaucho Serenade as Farmer Driving Jalopy
- The Range Busters as Cowhand
- Viva Cisco Kid as Deputy
- Winners of the West as Drunk
- Riders of Pasco Basin as Townsman (uncredited)
- Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride as Henry Haggerty
- Triple Justice as Townsman Outside Saloon
- Cross-Country Romance as Wedding Witness
1939
- Stagecoach as Cavalryman (uncredited)
- Reno as Townsman
- Oklahoma Frontier as Townsman
- The Night Riders as Rancher
- Rollin' Westward as Slim Regan
- Sundown on the Prairie as Henchman Hank
- Chip of the Flying U as Cowhand
1938
- The Cowboy and the Lady as Cowhand Leonard (uncredited)
- Ghost Town Riders as Tom 'Cherokee' Walton
- Frontier Town as Henchman Buck
- The Stranger from Arizona as Skeeter
1937
- The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen as Deputy
- Sing Cowboy Sing as Henchman
- Hittin' the Trail as Sidekick Hank
- The Californian as Ruiz Man
- Hollywood Round-Up as Saloon Set Extra
1936
- Come and Get It as Lumberjack (uncredited)
- Ghost Town Gold as Mr. Crabtree (uncredited)
- For the Service as Henchman (uncredited)
1935
- Barbary Coast as Barfly / Townsman (uncredited)