Hank Worden
Acting
Born 1901-07-23
Died 1992-12-06
Rolfe, Iowa, USA
147 credits
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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)
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Acting
55 credits
Twin Peaks
Bonanza
Knight Rider
Wagon Train
The Virginian
Petticoat Junction
Daniel Boone
Rawhide
Gunsmoke
The Lone Ranger
The Searchers
True Grit
Runaway Train
Every Which Way but Loose
Smokey and the Bandit
Cop Rock
The Alamo
Chisum
Stagecoach
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
McLintock!
Red River
3 Godfathers
Duel in the Sun
Rio Lobo
Fort Apache
One-Eyed Jacks
The Ice Pirates
Big Jake
Bronco Billy
Big Wednesday
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Horse Soldiers
The Big Sky
The Music Man
Tap Roots
Cahill: United States Marshal
Brigham Young
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
Yellow Sky
Sergeant Rutledge
The Indian Fighter
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Wagon Master
Angel and the Badman
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
Undercurrent
Northwest Passage
Almost an Angel
The Fighting Kentuckian
Hammett
Crime Wave
UFOria
So Proudly We Hail
Barbary Coast
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