Earle Hodgins
Born: 1893-10-05 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Died: 1964-04-14
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Earle Hodgins (October 6, 1893 – April 14, 1964) was an American actor. Early in his career, Hodgins was active in stock theater, including working in the Ralph Cloninger troupe of Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Siegel Stock company of Seattle, Washington. He appeared in over 330 films and television shows between 1932 and 1963. He specialized in playing fast-talking con men—often in westerns, such as The Lone Ranger, Judge Roy Bean, The Cisco Kid, The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, Rawhide, Maverick, Lawman, The Rifleman, Cheyenne, Have Gun – Will Travel, Gunsmoke and Hopalong Cassidy. In the 1960-1961 season, he appeared in three episodes of Joanne Dru's ABC sitcom, Guestward, Ho! as the aging ranch wrangler known as "Lonesome." In one of those episodes, "Lonesome's Gal", he was cast opposite ZaSu Pitts. Thereafter, the two died within a year of each other. Hodgins' other television roles were as carnival barkers, medicine-show salesmen, and the like. He was known for shooing away obstreporous children from his stage, snapping at them, "Get away, son, ya bother me". Hodgins married Sue Hanley, who was described in a newspaper item as "a Seattle society girl."
Filmography
1962
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance as Clute Dumfries (uncredited)
- Saintly Sinners as Uncle Clete
1961
1960
- The Westerner as Saul
- Inherit the Wind as Dr. Britton's Tonic Spieler with Chimp (uncredited)
- Guestward, Ho!
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Agee
- Rawhide
- Law of the Plainsman as Bartender
- Mr. Lucky
- Wichita Town
1958
- The Rifleman
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Stableman
- The Donna Reed Show
- The Missouri Traveler as Old Sharecropper
1957
- Have Gun, Will Travel as Old Timer
- Maverick as Johnson
- Sugarfoot as The Old Man
- Harbor Command
- The D.I. as Guard
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Pat Duncan
- The Fastest Gun Alive as Medicine Man (uncredited)
- Friendly Persuasion as Shooting Gallery Operator (uncredited)
- The Young Guns as Rancho
1955
- Gunsmoke as Uncle Oliver
- East of Eden as Shooting Gallery Concessionaire (uncredited)
- Guys and Dolls as Pitchman (uncredited)
1954
- Lassie
- The Forty-Niners as Hotel Clerk
1953
- City Detective
- Thunder Over the Plains as Auctioneer (uncredited)
- The Great Jesse James Raid as 'Soapy' Smith
- City of Bad Men as Cooch
1952
1951
- Dragnet
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
- Boston Blackie
- Texas Carnival as Cab Passenger Frightened by Cornie (uncredited)
- Westward the Women as Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
- Callaway Went Thataway as Somerset Club Doorman (untitled)
1950
- The Cisco Kid as Gramps - the Organ Player
- Bunco Squad as Professor Markett (uncredited)
- The Savage Horde as Buck Yallop
- Where Danger Lives as Postville Cowboy (uncredited)
1949
- The Lone Ranger as Storekeeper
- Shockproof as Race Caller (Uncredited)
- Slightly French as Carnival Barker (uncredited)
- Radio Riot
- Canadian Pacific as Sandy McNair (uncredited)
- Henry, the Rainmaker as Mr. Peabody
- Sheriff of Wichita as Jess Jenkins
1948
- Oklahoma Badlands as Jonathan Walpole
- Whispering Smith
- The Main Street Kid as Judge Belin
- Hazard as Doctor (uncredited)
- Let's Live Again as Novelty Salesman
- Borrowed Trouble as Sheriff
- If You Knew Susie as Auctioneer (uncredited)
- Silent Conflict as Doc Richards
- Old Los Angeles as Horatius P. Gassoway
1947
- The Return of Rin Tin Tin as Joe - The Dog Handler
- Unexpected Guest as Joshua Colter
- The Marauders as County Clerk Tom
- Key Witness as Racetrack Security Guard (uncredited)
- The Sea of Grass as Brewton Ranch Hand (uncredited)
- Fun on a Weekend as Heckler (Uncredited)
- Hollywood Barn Dance as Francis D. Cartwright
- Oregon Trail Scouts as The Judge
- Vigilantes of Boomtown as Governor
1946
- Crime of the Century as Eddie
- The Best Years of Our Lives as Diner Attendant at Lucia's (uncredited)
- Gun Town as Sheriff
- The Devil's Playground as Deputy Dan'l
- Deadline at Dawn as Barker (uncredited)
- Down Missouri Way as Press Agent
- The Last Crooked Mile as Carnival Barker
- Gallant Journey as Mahoney's Barker (uncredited)
- Valley of the Zombies as Fred Mays (Fred Murks)
- Rustler's Round-up as Sheriff Fin Elder
- Traffic in Crime as Bartender
- That Brennan Girl as Street Car Conductor (uncredited)
- Fool's Gold as Sandler
- Accomplice as Marshal Jeff Bailey
1945
- Crime, Inc. as Carnival Barker (uncredited)
- Oregon Trail as Judge J. Frothingham Smythe
- The Southerner as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
- Bedside Manner as Grover Cleveland 'Chatty' Perkins (uncredited)
- Under Western Skies as Mayor Dave Mayfield
- The Topeka Terror as Don Quixote 'Ipso-Facto' Martindale
1944
- Sensations of 1945 as Police Detective (uncredited)
- Alaska as Tobin
- It Happened Tomorrow
- Mystery of the Riverboat as Jean Duval [Ch. 5]
- San Antonio Kid as Happy Jack
- Firebrands of Arizona as Sheriff Hoag
- Hidden Valley Outlaws as Eddie Purcell
1943
- Bar 20 as Tom
- Border Patrol as Cook
- Calling Dr. Death
- Colt Comrades as Wildcat Willie
- The Lone Star Trail as Mayor Cyrus Jenkins
- Idaho as Bartender
- Batman as Joe
- False Colors as Lawyer Jay Griffin
- Riders of the Deadline as Sourdough
- Crazy House as Barker
- Hoppy Serves a Writ as Jim Belman
- King of the Cowboys as Ike
- The Avenging Rider as Deputy Joe
- Gildersleeve's Bad Day as Reporter Earle (uncredited)
- Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground as Judge Higgins
1942
- Call of the Canyon as Pie-Eating Contest Referee (uncredited)
- The Spoilers as Miner (uncredited)
- The Pride of the Yankees as Bottle Game Operator (uncredited)
- Fall In as Cigar Store Customer
- Silver Queen as Desk Clerk (uncredited)
- The Power of God as Tom York
- Undercover Man as Sheriff Blackton
- Scattergood Rides High as Auctioneer (uncredited)
- Scattergood Survives a Murder as Coroner
- The Bashful Bachelor as Joseph Abernathy
- Deep in the Heart of Texas as Judge Peabody
- My Favorite Spy as 2nd Speaker in Park
- USS VD: Ship of Shame as Show Barker (uncredited)
- The Old Chisholm Trail as Chief Hopping Crow
- Shut My Big Mouth as Stagecoach Guard
- Riding the Wind as Bert MacLeod
- Inside the Law as Police Chief
- Red River Robin Hood as Deputy Pete
1941
- Sierra Sue as Brandywine
- Scattergood Pulls the Strings as Deputy
- Criminals Within as Wallace
- Scattergood Baines as Jim Barton
- Keep 'Em Flying as Tunnel of Love Attendant (uncredited)
- Las Vegas Nights as Barker at Fickle Fanny
- Sailors on Leave as Con Man (uncredited)
- A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob as Sylvester P. Wurple (uncredited)
1940
- Men Against the Sky as Barker
- Florian as Concession Owner
- My Favorite Wife as Court Clerk Beside Judge Bryson (uncredited)
- Trail of the Vigilantes as Medicine Man
- The Sagebrush Family Trails West as 'Doc' Sawyer
- The Range Busters as Uncle Rolf
- Santa Fe Marshal as Rufus Tate
- Boss of Bullion City as Mike Calhoun
- Under Texas Skies as Town Barber
- Boom Town as Rodeo Barker (uncredited)
- Law and Order as Sheriff Fin Elder
- Mexican Spitfire as H. Sharpe - Divorce Lawyer
- Bad Man from Red Butte as Hiram T. Cochran
1939
- Dodge City as Spieler (uncredited)
- Range War as Deputy
- Fixer Dugan as Sideshow Barker
- Panama Lady as Foreman
- The Long Shot as Collins
- Thunder Afloat as Fisherman (uncredited)
- Almost a Gentleman as Sheriff Ira Willis
- The Day the Bookies Wept as Horse Auctioneer (uncredited)
- Daredevils of the Red Circle as Hinkle--Barker
- The Spellbinder as First Marriage License Clerk (Uncredited)
1938
- Lawless Valley as Sheriff Heck Hampton
- Frontier Town as Frontier City Rodeo Announcer
- Next Time I Marry as Hitchhiking Preacher (uncredited)
- Barefoot Boy as Sheriff
- Tarnished Angel as Revivalist
- Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus as Circus Barker (uncredited)
- Under Western Stars as Radio Announcer
- Call The Mesquiteers as 'Doctor' Algernon Irving
- Pride of the West as Tom Martin
- The Rangers' Round-Up as Doc Aikman
- The Purple Vigilantes as J. T. McAllister
- The Old Barn Dance as Terwilliger
- Partners of the Plains as Sheriff
1937
- All Over Town as Barker
- Range Defenders as Sheriff Honest Dan Gray
- Mountain Justice as Wheel of Life Barker
- Hills of Old Wyoming as Thompson
- Borderland as Major Stafford
- Sky Racket as Henchman Spike Hodgins
- Texas Trail as Major Jordan
- Heroes of the Alamo as Stephen F. Austin
- Roaring Six Guns as Sundown
- Round-Up Time in Texas as Barkey McCusky
- Headin' East as Fred W. Calhoun
- I Cover the War! as Blake
- A Lawman Is Born as Sheriff Rock Lance
- Smoke Tree Range as Sheriff Day (as Earl Hodgins)
- Porky's Garden as Huckster (voice)
- Trail of Vengeance as Buck Andrews
- Get Rich Quick Porky as Oil Land Hustler (voice) (uncredited)
- Outlaws of the Prairie as Neepah
- Law for Tombstone as Jack Dunn
1936
- Ticket to Paradise as Cab Starter
- Border Caballero as Doc Shaw
- Crash Donovan as Patrolman (uncredited)
- Oh, Susanna as Professor Ezekial Daniels
- The Singing Cowboy as Henry Blake
- King of Burlesque as Burlesque Barker (uncredited)
- The Village Smithy as Narrator (voice)
- Ghost Town Gold as Fight Referee (uncredited)
- Aces and Eights as Marshal
- Ridin' On as Henchman (uncredited)
- Guns and Guitars as Prof. Parker (as Earl Hodgins)
1935
- Paradise Canyon as Doc Carter
- The Perfect Gentleman as Music Hall Stage Manager (uncredited)
- The Cyclone Ranger as Pancho Gonzales
- The Texas Rambler as 'Flash' Carson
- Moonlight on the Prairie as Doc Cody
- Little Big Shot as Tour Barker
- Guns Along The Trail as Dr. Carter
- Cowboy G-Man as Doc Carter
1934
- The Circus Clown as Circus Barker
- Two Alone as Carnival Barker (uncredited)
- Whirlpool as Carnival Barker (uncredited)