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
- Almost an Angel as Pop
- Big Bad John as Good Ole Boy
- Cop Rock as 2nd Elderly Man
1988
- Once Upon a Texas Train as Old Timer
1985
- Space Rage as Old Codger
- Runaway Train as Old Con
1984
- UFOria as Colonel
- The Ice Pirates as Elderly Jason
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
- Big Wednesday as Shopping Cart
- They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way as Butch Collins
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as Old Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Every Which Way but Loose as Trailer Court Manager
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
- Zachariah as Old Cowboy (uncredited)
- Black Noon as Joseph
1968
1967
- Good Times as Kid
- Hondo and the Apaches as Miner
- The President's Analyst as Dirty Old Man (uncredited)
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
- Sergeant Rutledge as Laredo (uncredited)
- The Alamo as Parson
1959
- Rawhide as Driver
- The Horse Soldiers as Deacon Clump
1958
- Bullwhip as Tex
- Bronco
- The Toughest Gun in Tombstone as Liveryman
- The Notorious Mr. Monks as Pete
1957
- Wagon Train as Hank
- The Quiet Gun as Sampson
- Dragoon Wells Massacre as Hopi Charlie
- Spoilers of the Forest as Pat Casey
- Forty Guns as Marshal John Chisum
- The Buckskin Lady as Lon
1956
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie
- The Searchers as Mose Harper
- Accused of Murder as Les Fuller
- Davy Crockett and the River Pirates as Fiddler
- Thunder Over Arizona as Old Jonas
1955
- Gunsmoke as Claude
- The Indian Fighter as Crazy Bear / Guardhouse Keeper
- Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier as Cave Bar Patron (uncredited)
1953
- Crime Wave as Sweeney (uncredited)
1952
- Boots Malone as Auto Mechanic
- The Big Sky as Poordevil
- Woman of the North Country as Tom Gordon
- Apache War Smoke as Amber
1951
- Sugarfoot as Johnny Behind-the-Stove
- Comin' Round the Mountain as Shooting Match Official
- Joe Palooka in Triple Cross as Hard-of-Hearing Farmer
1950
- Wagon Master as Luke Clegg
- Frenchie as Mr. Grady (uncredited)
- When Willie Comes Marching Home as American Legionnaire Band Leader (uncredited)
- Father Is a Bachelor as Finnegan (uncredited)
1949
- The Lone Ranger as Rusty Bates
- Hellfire
- Roseanna McCoy as Jacob (uncredited)
- The Fighting Kentuckian as Abner Todd
- Cover Up as Undertaker
1948
- Red River as Simms Reeves
- Fort Apache as Southern Recruit
- 3 Godfathers as Deputy Curly
- Hazard as Man in Cheap Hotel (uncredited)
- Yellow Sky as Rancher, Bank Customer (uncredited)
- Whispering Smith
- Tap Roots as Cropper (uncredited)
- The Man from Texas as (uncredited)
- Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' as Clem (uncredited)
- The Sainted Sisters as Taub Beasley
1947
- Prairie Express as Deputy Clint
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty as Western Character (uncredited)
- Angel and the Badman as Townsman (uncredited)
- The Sea of Grass as Bill - Salt Fork Townsman (uncredited)
1946
- Lawless Breed as The Deputy
- Duel in the Sun as Party Guest (uncredited)
- Undercurrent as Telegram Delivery Man (uncredited)
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
- The Woman of the Town as The Barber
- Flesh and Fantasy as Circus Spectator (uncredited)
- So Proudly We Hail as Soldier on Troop Ship (Uncredited)
- 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
- Triple Justice as Townsman Outside Saloon
- Brigham Young as Mormon Cheering Porter
- Cross-Country Romance as Wedding Witness
- Gaucho Serenade as Farmer Driving Jalopy
- Winners of the West as Drunk
- Riders of Pasco Basin as Townsman (uncredited)
- The Range Busters as Cowhand
- Viva Cisco Kid as Deputy
- Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride as Henry Haggerty
- Beyond Tomorrow as Hospital Visitor (uncredited)
1939
- Oklahoma Frontier as Townsman
- Reno as Townsman
- Stagecoach as Cavalryman (uncredited)
- Rollin' Westward as Slim Regan
- The Night Riders as Rancher
- Sundown on the Prairie as Henchman Hank
- Chip of the Flying U as Cowhand
1938
- Frontier Town as Henchman Buck
- The Cowboy and the Lady as Cowhand Leonard (uncredited)
- The Stranger from Arizona as Skeeter
- Ghost Town Riders as Tom 'Cherokee' Walton
1937
- The Californian as Ruiz Man
- The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen as Deputy
- Hollywood Round-Up as Saloon Set Extra
- Sing Cowboy Sing as Henchman
- Hittin' the Trail as Sidekick Hank
1936
- For the Service as Henchman (uncredited)
- Ghost Town Gold as Mr. Crabtree (uncredited)
- Come and Get It as Lumberjack (uncredited)
1935
- Barbary Coast as Barfly / Townsman (uncredited)