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
- Soggy Bottom, U.S.A. as Old Geezer
- Scream as John
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
- Zachariah as Old Cowboy (uncredited)
- Black Noon as Joseph
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
- Dragoon Wells Massacre as Hopi Charlie
- The Buckskin Lady as Lon
- The Quiet Gun as Sampson
- Spoilers of the Forest as Pat Casey
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
- 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
- The Big Sky as Poordevil
- Apache War Smoke as Amber
- Boots Malone as Auto Mechanic
- Woman of the North Country as Tom Gordon
1951
- Sugarfoot as Johnny Behind-the-Stove
- Triple Cross as Hard-of-Hearing Farmer
- Comin' Round the Mountain as Shooting Match Official
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
- The Fighting Kentuckian as Abner Todd
- Cover Up as Undertaker
- Roseanna McCoy as Jacob (uncredited)
- Hellfire as Witness (uncredited)
1948
- 3 Godfathers as Deputy Curly
- Fort Apache as Southern Recruit
- Tap Roots as Cropper (uncredited)
- Red River as Simms Reeves
- Yellow Sky as Rancher, Bank Customer (uncredited)
- Whispering Smith
- The Sainted Sisters as Taub Beasley
- Hazard as Man in Cheap Hotel (uncredited)
- Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' as Clem (uncredited)
- The Man from Texas as (uncredited)
1947
- Angel and the Badman as Townsman (uncredited)
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty as Western Character (uncredited)
- The Sea of Grass as Bill - Salt Fork Townsman (uncredited)
- High Wall
- 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)
- A Lady Takes a Chance as Waiter
- The Woman of the Town as The Barber
- Black Market Rustlers as Slim
1942
- Deep in the Heart of Texas as Townsman
1941
- Robbers of the Range as Stagecoach Attendant (uncredited)
- Border Vigilantes as Aunt Jennifer's Wagon Driver
1940
- Brigham Young as Mormon Cheering Porter
- Northwest Passage as Ranger Tying Oars
- Beyond Tomorrow as Hospital Visitor (uncredited)
- Viva Cisco Kid as Deputy
- Triple Justice as Townsman Outside Saloon
- The Range Busters as Cowhand
- Cross-Country Romance as Wedding Witness
- Winners of the West as Drunk
- Riders of Pasco Basin as Townsman (uncredited)
- Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride as Henry Haggerty
- Gaucho Serenade as Farmer Driving Jalopy
1939
- Stagecoach as Cavalryman (uncredited)
- The Night Riders as Rancher
- Reno as Townsman
- Sundown on the Prairie as Henchman Hank
- Oklahoma Frontier as Townsman
- Chip of the Flying U as Cowhand
- Rollin' Westward as Slim Regan
1938
- The Cowboy and the Lady as Cowhand Leonard (uncredited)
- The Stranger from Arizona as Skeeter
- Ghost Town Riders as Tom 'Cherokee' Walton
- Frontier Town as Henchman Buck
1937
- Hollywood Round-Up as Saloon Set Extra
- The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen as Deputy
- The Californian as Ruiz Man
- Hittin' the Trail as Sidekick Hank
- Sing Cowboy Sing as Henchman
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)