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)
Hank Worden Biography / Wiki
| Name | Hank Worden |
| Also Know | Norton Earl Worden, Worden Norten |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Rolfe, Iowa, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1901-07-23 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 91 |
| Deathday | 1992-12-06 |
Hank Worden Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Scream | John | 1981-01-08 | A group of friends on a rafting trip down a river stop in at an old ghost town to spend the night. Soon their rafts disappear, and then they begin to … |
| Ghost Town Riders | Tom ‘Cherokee’ Walton | 1938-12-16 | Molly Taylor owns the town of Stillwell but is unaware the taxes are due as Gomer has stolen her notice. Bob Martin arrives at the same time as Molly … |
| The Stranger from Arizona | Skeeter | 1938-09-22 | A quiet cowboy on a white horse saves a gal from cattle rustlers…. |
| The Buckskin Lady | Lon | 1957-07-01 | Patricia Medina plays the title character in The Buckskin Lady. Medina is cast as female gambler Angela Medley, who is forced by circumstances to alig… |
| The Quiet Gun | Sampson | 1957-07-18 | A mild mannered sheriff must fight both a hired gun and local anti-Indian bigotry in a small frontier town…. |
| Please Don’t Eat the Babies | Gramps Jebediah | 1983-11-11 | Teenage girls are kidnapped and brought to a remote island, which is inhabited by a family of crazed killers…. |
| Sundown on the Prairie | Henchman Hank | 1939-02-08 | Tex and Ananias are sent by the government to capture some Santa Fe rustlers. Tex recognizes Hendricks as an outlaw, captures him and learns that Hend… |
| Lawless Breed | The Deputy | 1946-08-16 | Government agents Ted Everett and Tumbleweed are sent to Spearville, Texas, where the law agencies have failed to stop a series of bank robberies. Arr… |
| Thunder Over Arizona | Old Jonas | 1956-08-04 | Ervin Plummer-played by the estimable George Macready, who like his good friend Vincent Price was a man of culture and erudition who specialised in ba… |
| Bullwhip | Tex | 1958-05-25 | In order to avoid the hangman’s noose, a cowboy agrees to marry a beautiful but fiery redhead…. |
| Black Noon | Joseph | 1971-11-05 | Reverend John Keyes and his wife, Lorna, on their way to a new congregation out west, break down in the desert and are rescued by the residents of a n… |
| The Big Sky | Poordevil | 1952-08-19 | Two tough Kentucky mountaineers join a trading expedition from St. Louis up the Missouri River to trade whisky for furs with the Blackfoot Indians. Th… |
| Apache War Smoke | Amber | 1952-09-25 | An outlaw murders several Apaches and flees to a stagecoach way station with the tribe in hot pursuit. A stagecoach and its passengers have just pulle… |
| Rollin’ Westward | Slim Regan | 1939-03-01 | A cowboy helps a pretty young woman and her father in their fight against land-grabbers who are trying to swindle them out of their cattle ranch…. |
| Spoilers of the Forest | Pat Casey | 1957-04-04 | Vera Ralston plays Joan Milna, who shares several thousand acres of valuable Montana timberland with her stepfather (John Alderson). Coveting Joan’s p… |
| Once Upon a Texas Train | Old Timer | 1988-10-12 | Captain Hayes of the mighty law enforcement squad named the Texas Rangers reached the pinnacle of his career when he captured the notorious John Henry… |
| Triple Justice | Townsman Outside Saloon | 1940-09-22 | Brad Henderson arrives in Star City just in time to witness three men rob a bank of $30,000 and kill a teller. Charged for the crime and jailed, Brad … |
| Black Market Rustlers | Slim | 1943-08-27 | In this WW II film meant to discourage the purchase of black market beef, the Range Busters are called on to fight cattle rustlers. This time they’re … |
| The Horse Soldiers | Deacon Clump | 1959-06-11 | A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes insta… |
| Sing Cowboy Sing | Henchman | 1937-05-22 | Kalmus is after the freight contract held by Summers. When his gang kill Summers, Tex and Duke step in to help Madge keep the freight line going. When… |
| The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen | Deputy | 1937-08-06 | Tex is up against a group of hooded outlaws. When he shoots one, he uses the hood to infiltrate the gang. Almost caught by them, he escapes only to be… |
| Dragoon Wells Massacre | Hopi Charlie | 1957-08-28 | A cavalry officer, the sole survivor of an Indian attack, and a wagon load of prisoners travel through hostile Indian country…. |
| The Notorious Mr. Monks | Pete | 1958-02-28 | A drunken driver, his wife and a hitchhiker equals murder…. |
| Hittin’ the Trail | Sidekick Hank | 1937-04-03 | his was one of the earlier uses of Robert Tansey’s favorite plot (only the 3rd time he had trotted it out of the stable, but he got six more films out… |
| Big Wednesday | Shopping Cart | 1978-05-26 | Three 1960s California surfers fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves…. |
| Big Bad John | Good Ole Boy | 1990-02-01 | Jimmy Dean’s popular 1950 song is translated into a feature length movie about a young couple who elopes to escape the girl’s evil stepfather…. |
| Forty Guns | Marshal John Chisum | 1957-09-10 | An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall arrives to set things straight, the cattle … |
| Soggy Bottom, U.S.A. | Old Geezer | 1981-10-09 | In a small Southern town, the local sheriff tries to keep everything peaceful and under control…. |
| Davy Crockett and the River Pirates | Fiddler | 1956-07-18 | Davy Crockett and his sidekick Georgie compete against boastful Mike Fink (“King of the River”) in a boat race to New Orleans. Later, Davy and Georgie… |
| Yellow Sky | Rancher, Bank Customer (uncredited) | 1948-12-24 | In 1867, a gang led by James “Stretch” Dawson robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws come upon a ghost town called Yellow Sk… |
| The Legend of Frank Woods | Slim | 1977-04-30 | Legendary Quick-shot Frank Woods is caught in a shootout and kills three drunks in self-defense. In fear for his life, Frank escapes to the Arizona de… |
| Space Rage | Old Codger | 1985-08-15 | In this sci-fi/western film set two hundred years from now, a bank robber, Grange is captured and sentenced to the penal colony on the mining planet P… |
| Red River | Simms Reeves | 1948-08-26 | Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matthew Garth, an or… |
| The Searchers | Mose Harper | 1956-05-07 | As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable…. |
| 3 Godfathers | Deputy Curly | 1948-12-31 | Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their ow… |
| The Toughest Gun in Tombstone | Liveryman | 1958-05-14 | A lawman goes undercover in order to capture the outlaws who murdered his wife…. |
| Come and Get It | Lumberjack (uncredited) | 1936-11-06 | An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman’s daughter…. |
| Prairie Express | Deputy Clint | 1947-10-24 | Johnny Mack Brown comes to the aid of a beleaguered female freight line operator in this standard Monogram oater directed by veteran Lambert Hillyer. … |
| They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way | Butch Collins | 1978-01-01 | Dewey (Tim Conway) and Wallace (Chuck McCann) are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as prison inmates to find out whe… |
| Man from Texas | (uncredited) | 1948-03-06 | James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the “El Paso Kid,” and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his long-suff… |
| Comin’ Round the Mountain | Shooting Match Official | 1951-07-26 | Al Stewart and Wilbert are magicians doing a stage act when they run into Wilbert’s cousin, Dorothy McCoy. They find out that Wilbert’s grandfather, S… |
| Bronco Billy | Station Mechanic | 1980-06-11 | An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest…. |
| Woman of the North Country | Tom Gordon | 1952-07-23 | In 1890 Minnesota Christine Powell is the scheming head of the Powell dynasty, the richest mining empire of the era. But the Powell mine deposits are … |
| UFOria | Colonel | 1985-10-01 | Sheldon Bart (Fred Ward) is a drifter, and a small-time con man. He meets his old friend, Brother Bud (Harry Dean Stanton), a big-time con man into fa… |
| Accused of Murder | Les Fuller | 1956-12-21 | The story tells of nightclub singer Vera Ralston, who is accused of murder; and it looks like she’s guilty as she was the last person to see crooked a… |
| The Sainted Sisters | Taub Beasley | 1948-04-30 | Two female con artists from New York City, fleeing the law with loot from their latest scam, hide out in a small Maine town, near the Canadian border…. |
| Barbary Coast | Barfly / Townsman (uncredited) | 1935-10-13 | Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis’ Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling ho… |
| The Fighting Kentuckian | Abner Todd | 1949-09-15 | John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the … |
| Runaway Train | Old Con | 1985-11-15 | A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with … |
| McLintock! | Curly Fletcher | 1963-11-12 | Ageing, wealthy, rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly … |
| Frenchie | Mr. Grady (uncredited) | 1950-12-25 | Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she onl… |
| The Cowboy and the Lady | Cowhand Leonard (uncredited) | 1938-11-17 | Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off f… |
| Boots Malone | Auto Mechanic | 1952-01-11 | In this 1952 drama directed by William Dieterle, William Holden stars as an agent for horse jockeys who faces his greatest challenge…. |
| Every Which Way but Loose | Trailer Court Manager | 1978-12-16 | Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He’s also the best bar-room brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound ora… |
| Joe Palooka in Triple Cross | Hard-of-Hearing Farmer | 1951-09-16 | Joe Palooka and two friends are taking hostage by three criminals…. |
| Big Wednesday | Shopping Cart (as Hank Warden) | 1978-05-26 | Three 1960s California surfers fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves…. |
| One-Eyed Jacks | Doc | 1961-03-30 | Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captur… |
| The Range Busters | Cowhand | 1940-08-22 | A Phantom is murdering the hands at the Circle T Ranch. The Range Busters are recruted by the owner of the Circle T to stop the Phantom and discover h… |
| The Hanged Man | Ab Wickes | 1974-03-13 | A gunfighter who survives his own hanging helps a young widow who is trying to keep a ruthless land baron from taking her ranch…. |
| The Alamo | Parson | 1960-10-23 | The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant… |
| Cover Up | Undertaker | 1949-02-25 | Insurance investigator Sam Donovan is looking into the apparent suicide of a man in a small Midwestern town. All clues leads him into suspecting murde… |
| Big Daddy | 1969-06-11 | A visitor to the Everglades swamps in Florida encounters and falls in love with an uneducated girl. But he finds competition for her affections from t… | |
| Feudin’, Fussin’ and A-Fightin’ | Clem (uncredited) | 1948-06-01 | A fast-talking salesman is “kidnapped” by a town, which intends to use him in its annual race with a rival community…. |
| Duel in the Sun | Dance- Floor Cowboy (uncredited) | 1946-12-31 | Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father’s first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad… |
| The Ice Pirates | Elderly Jason | 1984-03-16 | The time is the distant future, where by far the most precious commodity in the galaxy is water. The last surviving water planet was somehow removed t… |
| The Music Man | Undertaker | 1962-06-19 | A con man comes to an Iowa town with a scam using a boy’s marching band program, but things don’t go according to plan…. |
| Flesh and Fantasy | Circus Spectator (uncredited) | 1943-10-29 | Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who predicts… |
| Wagon Master | Luke Clegg | 1950-04-22 | Two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter cutthroats, Indians, geography, and moral challenges on the journey… |
| Roseanna McCoy | Jacob (uncredited) | 1949-10-12 | It’s the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance reki… |
| Fort Apache | Southern Recruit | 1948-06-14 | Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant,… |
| Rio Lobo | Hank, the hotel desk clerk | 1970-04-01 | After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose perfidy caused the defeat of McNally’s unit and the loss of a close friend…. |
| Almost an Angel | Pop | 1990-12-21 | Terry Dean is an electronics wizard and thief. After he is released from jail, he is hit by a car while saving a little girl’s life. While in the hosp… |
| Stagecoach | Cavalryman Extra (uncredited) | 1939-03-03 | A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the proc… |
| Cahill U.S. Marshal | Albert, Valentine Stationmaster | 1973-07-11 | J.D. Cahill is the toughest U.S. Marshal they’ve got, just the sound of his name makes bad guys stop in their tracks, so when his two young boy’s want… |
| Beyond Tomorrow | Hospital Visitor (Uncredited) | 1940-05-10 | The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple whom they initially brought toge… |
| Father Is a Bachelor | Finnegan (uncredited) | 1950-02-22 | Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: January, February, March, April, and May are living wit… |
| Angel and the Badman | Townsman (uncredited) | 1947-02-15 | Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans’ horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family’s home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes… |
| Big Jake | Hank | 1971-05-26 | An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson…. |
| For the Service | Henchman (uncredited) | 1936-06-01 | Cowboy star Buck Jones made his directorial debut with the Universal western For the Service. Jones is cast as Indian scout Buck O’Bryan, trying his b… |
| Viva Cisco Kid | Deputy | 1940-04-12 | Cisco saves a stagecoach from being robbed and takes a shine to one of the passengers whose father is in cahoots with a vicious criminal who plans to … |
| The Californian | Ruiz Man | 1937-07-18 | Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families. He becomes a s… |
| Frontier Town | Henchman Buck | 1938-03-04 | Regan is passing off counterfeit money at rodeos betting on his man Denby. When Tex appears and wins all the events, Regan has him accused of murder. … |
| Chip of the Flying U | Cowhand | 1939-11-29 | Chip of the Flying U was Johnny Mack Brown’s first western entry for 1940. Brown essays the title role of Chip Bennett, foreman of the Flying U ranch…. |
| Hammett | Pool Room Attendant | 1982-06-09 | Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living… |
| Chisum | 1970-07-23 | Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war…. | |
| Hollywood Round-Up | Saloon Set Extra | 1937-11-06 | While filming a western on location, the stand-in/stunt double for an egotistical cowboy movie star proves his heroics when a “fake” bank robbery turn… |
| Oklahoma Frontier | Townsman | 1939-10-09 | It’s the opening of the Cherokee strip and the Rankins are after a particular section. Frazier is also after the same section and has hired outlaws to… |
| Robbers of the Range | Stagecoach Attendant (uncredited) | 1941-04-17 | Railroad agents frame a landowner who wont sell out to them…. |
| Border Vigilantes | Aunt Jennifer’s Wagon Driver | 1941-04-18 | A town bedeviled with outlaws sends for Hoppy, Lucky and California after their own vigilante committee fails to solve the towns problems. Hoppy disco… |
| Deep in the Heart of Texas | Townsman | 1942-09-25 | Hoping to increase its box-office allure by adopting the title of a popular song, Deep in the Heart of Texas (clap!clap!clap!clap!) was the first John… |
| John Wayne’s ‘The Alamo’ | Self | 1992-06-06 | Documentary about the making of the John Wayne film The Alamo (1960). Included are behind-the-scenes photos and footage of the actual production of th… |
| The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Western Character (uncredited) | 1947-09-01 | Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream b… |
| Reno | Townsman | 1939-12-01 | A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon…. |
| Cross-Country Romance | Wedding Witness | 1940-07-12 | Chase across the country romance…. |
| Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride | Henry Haggerty | 1940-09-05 | Gene inherits a meat-packing plant, then faces stiff competition from snooty Ann Randolph, rival owner determined to do him in…. |
| Gaucho Serenade | Farmer Driving Jalopy | 1940-05-09 | Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene’s hor… |
| The Woman of the Town | The Barber | 1943-12-31 | Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping, Master… |
| Tap Roots | Cropper (uncredited) | 1948-08-25 | Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the con… |
| Riders of Pasco Basin | 1940-04-04 | Kirby and Evans are pulling off an irrigation project swindle and newspaper editor Scott realizes it and sends for Lee. Lee agrees with Scott and form… | |
| Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band | Old Lonely Hearts Club Band | 1978-07-24 | A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the big-time machinations of the music biz. Now, they must … |
| Hellfire | 1949-05-29 | Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher’s missio… | |
| Northwest Passage | Ranger Tying Oars | 1940-02-23 | Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers’ Rangers, as the legendary elite force e… |
| The Night Riders | Rancher | 1939-04-12 | Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won’t pay. The Three Mesquiteers becomes… |
| Undercurrent | Telegram Delivery Man (uncredited) | 1946-11-11 | After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant… |
| So Proudly We Hail | Soldier on Troop Ship (Uncredited) | 1943-09-09 | A group of U.S. Army nurses leaves San Francisco for their tour of duty in Hawaii in December 1941. The attack on Pearl Harbor changes their destinati… |
| Brigham Young | Mormon Cheering Porter | 1940-09-27 | Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settl… |
| Winners of the West | Drunk | 1940-07-02 | Beyond Hell’s Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from bein… |
| A Lady Takes a Chance | Waiter | 1943-08-19 | A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors…. |
| Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood | Joe (uncredited) | 1945-10-05 | When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role…. |
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