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