Hank Worden
- Acting
- July 23, 1901 · Rolfe, Iowa, USA
- December 6, 1992
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)
Known for
Filmography
- John Wayne's 'The Alamo' · Self
- Almost an Angel · Pop
- Cop Rock · 2nd Elderly Man
- Twin Peaks · Waiter
- Big Bad John · Good Ole Boy
- Once Upon a Texas Train · Old Timer
- Space Rage · Old Codger
- Runaway Train · Old Con
- UFOria · Colonel
- The Ice Pirates · Elderly Jason
- Please Don't Eat the Babies · Gramps Jebediah
- Knight Rider · Slim
- Hammett · Pool Room Attendant
- Soggy Bottom, U.S.A. · Old Geezer
- Scream · John
- Bronco Billy · Station Mechanic
- Every Which Way but Loose · Trailer Court Manager
- They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way · Butch Collins
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band · Old Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Big Wednesday · Shopping Cart, Shopping Cart (as Hank Warden)
- Which Way Is Up? · The Flunky
- Smokey and the Bandit · Trucker (uncredited)
- The Legend of Frank Woods · Slim
- Sky Hei$t · Old Coot
- The Hanged Man · Ab Wickes
- Cahill: United States Marshal · Albert, Valentine Stationmaster
- Black Noon · Joseph
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks · Old Home Guardsman (uncredited)
- Big Jake · Hank
- Zachariah · Old Cowboy (uncredited)
- Chisum · Stationmaster Elwood
- Rio Lobo · Hank - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
- True Grit · R. Ryan - Undertaker (uncredited)
- Big Daddy
- Lancer
- The President's Analyst · Dirty Old Man (uncredited)
- Hondo and the Apaches · Miner
- Good Times · Kid
- Green Acres
- Daniel Boone · Blue Belly (uncredited), Hansom Cab Driver
- McLintock! · Curly Fletcher
- Petticoat Junction · Farmer, Roy Turlock
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- The Virginian · Calico (uncredited)
- The Music Man · Undertaker
- One-Eyed Jacks · Doc
- The Alamo · Parson
- Sergeant Rutledge · Laredo (uncredited)
- Bonanza · Station Attendant
- The Horse Soldiers · Deacon Clump
- Rawhide · Driver
- Bronco
- Bullwhip · Tex
- The Toughest Gun in Tombstone · Liveryman
- The Notorious Mr. Monks · Pete
- Wagon Train · Hank
- Forty Guns · Marshal John Chisum
- Dragoon Wells Massacre · Hopi Charlie
- The Quiet Gun · Sampson
- The Buckskin Lady · Lon
- Spoilers of the Forest · Pat Casey
- Accused of Murder · Les Fuller
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie
- Thunder Over Arizona · Old Jonas
- Davy Crockett and the River Pirates · Fiddler
- The Searchers · Mose Harper
- The Indian Fighter · Crazy Bear / Guardhouse Keeper
- Gunsmoke · Claude
- Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier · Cave Bar Patron (uncredited)
- Crime Wave · Sweeney (uncredited)
- Apache War Smoke · Amber
- The Big Sky · Poordevil
- Woman of the North Country · Tom Gordon
- Boots Malone · Auto Mechanic
- Triple Cross · Hard-of-Hearing Farmer
- Comin' Round the Mountain · Shooting Match Official
- Sugarfoot · Johnny Behind-the-Stove
- Frenchie · Mr. Grady (uncredited)
- Wagon Master · Luke Clegg
- Father Is a Bachelor · Finnegan (uncredited)