Hank Worden
Acting • Born 1901-07-23 – Died 1992-12-06
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
149 credits
Stagecoach
Movie • 1939
Cavalryman (uncredited)
The Ice Pirates
Movie • 1984
Elderly Jason
Red River
Movie • 1948
Simms Reeves
The Searchers
Movie • 1956
Mose Harper
Runaway Train
Movie • 1985
Old Con
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Movie • 1947
Western Character (uncredited)
The Music Man
Movie • 1962
Undertaker
3 Godfathers
Movie • 1948
Deputy Curly
Accused of Murder
Movie • 1956
Les Fuller
The Big Sky
Movie • 1952
Poordevil
McLintock!
Movie • 1963
Curly Fletcher
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Movie • 1978
Old Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Horse Soldiers
Movie • 1959
Deacon Clump
The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen
Movie • 1937
Deputy
Sing Cowboy Sing
Movie • 1937
Henchman
One-Eyed Jacks
Movie • 1961
Doc
The Stranger from Arizona
Movie • 1938
Skeeter
Dragoon Wells Massacre
Movie • 1957
Hopi Charlie
Rio Lobo
Movie • 1970
Hank - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Please Don't Eat the Babies
Movie • 1983
Gramps Jebediah
Thunder Over Arizona
Movie • 1956
Old Jonas
Scream
Movie • 1981
John
The Notorious Mr. Monks
Movie • 1958
Pete
Hellfire
Movie • 1949
Apache War Smoke
Movie • 1952
Amber
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Movie • 1978
Butch Collins
The Man from Texas
Movie • 1948
(uncredited)
Hittin' the Trail
Movie • 1937
Sidekick Hank
Which Way Is Up?
Movie • 1977
The Flunky
Smokey and the Bandit
Movie • 1977
Trucker (uncredited)
The Quiet Gun
Movie • 1957
Sampson
Frenchie
Movie • 1950
Mr. Grady (uncredited)
Whispering Smith
Movie • 1948
Hondo and the Apaches
Movie • 1967
Miner
The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
Movie • 1958
Liveryman
The Sainted Sisters
Movie • 1948
Taub Beasley
Comin' Round the Mountain
Movie • 1951
Shooting Match Official
Ghost Town Riders
Movie • 1938
Tom 'Cherokee' Walton
Riders of Pasco Basin
Movie • 1940
Townsman (uncredited)
Forty Guns
Movie • 1957
Marshal John Chisum
Cahill: United States Marshal
Movie • 1973
Albert, Valentine Stationmaster
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
Movie • 1981
Old Geezer
Barbary Coast
Movie • 1935
Barfly / Townsman (uncredited)
Come and Get It
Movie • 1936
Lumberjack (uncredited)
Bullwhip
Movie • 1958
Tex
The Cowboy and the Lady
Movie • 1938
Cowhand Leonard (uncredited)
Roseanna McCoy
Movie • 1949
Jacob (uncredited)
Sugarfoot
Movie • 1951
Johnny Behind-the-Stove
Chisum
Movie • 1970
Stationmaster Elwood
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Movie • 1971
Old Home Guardsman (uncredited)
True Grit
Movie • 1969
R. Ryan - Undertaker (uncredited)
The Alamo
Movie • 1960
Parson
The President's Analyst
Movie • 1967
Dirty Old Man (uncredited)
Big Wednesday
Movie • 1978
Shopping Cart
Frontier Town
Movie • 1938
Henchman Buck
Hollywood Round-Up
Movie • 1937
Saloon Set Extra
Bronco Billy
Movie • 1980
Station Mechanic
Sergeant Rutledge
Movie • 1960
Laredo (uncredited)
Spoilers of the Forest
Movie • 1957
Pat Casey
Fort Apache
Movie • 1948
Southern Recruit
The Night Riders
Movie • 1939
Rancher
Reno
Movie • 1939
Townsman
The Buckskin Lady
Movie • 1957
Lon
Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride
Movie • 1940
Henry Haggerty
Viva Cisco Kid
Movie • 1940
Deputy
The Range Busters
Movie • 1940
Cowhand
Rollin' Westward
Movie • 1939
Slim Regan
When Willie Comes Marching Home
Movie • 1950
American Legionnaire Band Leader (uncredited)
For the Service
Movie • 1936
Henchman (uncredited)
Crime Wave
Movie • 1953
Sweeney (uncredited)
Sundown on the Prairie
Movie • 1939
Henchman Hank
Angel and the Badman
Movie • 1947
Townsman (uncredited)
Robbers of the Range
Movie • 1941
Stagecoach Attendant (uncredited)
The Great Moment
Movie • 1944
Morton's Sign Painter - replaced Roscoe Ates (uncredited)
Father Is a Bachelor
Movie • 1950
Finnegan (uncredited)
Cover Up
Movie • 1949
Undertaker
The Indian Fighter
Movie • 1955
Crazy Bear / Guardhouse Keeper
Lawless Breed
Movie • 1946
The Deputy
Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
Movie • 1948
Clem (uncredited)
Triple Justice
Movie • 1940
Townsman Outside Saloon
The Sea of Grass
Movie • 1947
Bill - Salt Fork Townsman (uncredited)
Oklahoma Frontier
Movie • 1939
Townsman
Chip of the Flying U
Movie • 1939
Cowhand
Brigham Young
Movie • 1940
Mormon Cheering Porter
Gaucho Serenade
Movie • 1940
Farmer Driving Jalopy
The Californian
Movie • 1937
Ruiz Man
Big Jake
Movie • 1971
Hank
Winners of the West
Movie • 1940
Drunk
Good Times
Movie • 1967
Kid
Northwest Passage
Movie • 1940
Ranger Tying Oars
Hazard
Movie • 1948
Man in Cheap Hotel (uncredited)
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
Movie • 1956
Fiddler
Beyond Tomorrow
Movie • 1940
Hospital Visitor (uncredited)
Cross-Country Romance
Movie • 1940
Wedding Witness
Black Market Rustlers
Movie • 1943
Slim
Prairie Express
Movie • 1947
Deputy Clint
Border Vigilantes
Movie • 1941
Aunt Jennifer's Wagon Driver
Deep in the Heart of Texas
Movie • 1942
Townsman
Woman of the North Country
Movie • 1952
Tom Gordon
The Woman of the Town
Movie • 1943
The Barber
A Lady Takes a Chance
Movie • 1943
Waiter
Flesh and Fantasy
Movie • 1943
Circus Spectator (uncredited)
Boots Malone
Movie • 1952
Auto Mechanic
Yellow Sky
Movie • 1948
Rancher, Bank Customer (uncredited)
The Fighting Kentuckian
Movie • 1949
Abner Todd
The Legend of Frank Woods
Movie • 1977
Slim
Duel in the Sun
Movie • 1946
Party Guest (uncredited)
The Hanged Man
Movie • 1974
Ab Wickes
So Proudly We Hail
Movie • 1943
Soldier on Troop Ship (Uncredited)
Undercurrent
Movie • 1946
Telegram Delivery Man (uncredited)
Big Daddy
Movie • 1969
Every Which Way but Loose
Movie • 1978
Trailer Court Manager
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Movie • 1945
Joe (uncredited)
Hammett
Movie • 1982
Pool Room Attendant
Tap Roots
Movie • 1948
Cropper (uncredited)
Black Noon
Movie • 1971
Joseph
Triple Cross
Movie • 1951
Hard-of-Hearing Farmer
UFOria
Movie • 1984
Colonel
Big Bad John
Movie • 1990
Good Ole Boy
Wagon Master
Movie • 1950
Luke Clegg
Space Rage
Movie • 1985
Old Codger
Once Upon a Texas Train
Movie • 1988
Old Timer
Almost an Angel
Movie • 1990
Pop
John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
Movie • 1992
Self
Big Wednesday
Movie • 1978
Shopping Cart (as Hank Warden)
Zachariah
Movie • 1971
Old Cowboy (uncredited)
Ghost Town Gold
Movie • 1936
Mr. Crabtree (uncredited)
None Shall Escape
Movie • 1944
German Motorcycle Soldier (uncredited)
Sky Hei$t
Movie • 1975
Old Coot
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
Movie • 1955
Cave Bar Patron (uncredited)
Green Acres
TV • 1965
Twin Peaks
TV • 1990
Waiter
Knight Rider
TV • 1982
Slim
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV • 1962
Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963
Farmer
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Claude
The Lone Ranger
TV • 1949
Rusty Bates
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Driver
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Blue Belly (uncredited)
Lancer
TV • 1968
Bronco
TV • 1958
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV • 1956
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Hank
Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963
Roy Turlock
Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963
Luke
Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963
Band Member
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Hansom Cab Driver
Cop Rock
TV • 1990
2nd Elderly Man
The Lone Ranger
TV • 1949
Bruckner