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Hank Worden(1901-1992)

  • Actor
  • Producer
  • Soundtrack
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Hank Worden in a publicity still from "Red River" - submitted by his daughter.
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 be eliminated one by one by a mysterious killer.
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American character actor, mainly in Westerns in comic or rustic roles. Born Norton Earl Worden in Rolfe, Iowa, during his parents' visit to a relative's home there, he was raised on a cattle ranch near Glendive, Montana. Educated at Stanford and the University of Nevada as an engineer, he trained as an Army pilot, but washed out of flight school. Worden toured the country in rodeos as a saddle bronc rider and broke his neck in a horse fall 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, he afterward 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, Worden became friends with John Wayne, Howard Hawks, and later John Ford, all of whom provided him with much work. He was married to Louise Eaton, who predeceased him. Following his wife's death, he shared his house with Jim Beaver for several years, thus generously helping the young actor gain a foothold in Hollywood. He died in his sleep at 91, survived by his adopted daughter Dawn Henry.
BornJuly 23, 1901
DiedDecember 6, 1992(91)
BornJuly 23, 1901
DiedDecember 6, 1992(91)
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John Wayne and Hank Worden in McLintock! (1963)
Pedro Armendáriz, Ward Bond, Dick Foran, Victor McLaglen, Jack Pennick, and Hank Worden in Fort Apache (1948)
Bob Baker, Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Ferris Taylor, and Hank Worden in Chip of the Flying U (1939)
Walter Matthau, Lon Chaney Jr., Eduard Franz, and Hank Worden in The Indian Fighter (1955)
Stephen Bekassy, Rod Cameron, Lucien Littlefield, and Hank Worden in Woman of the North Country (1952)
Bob Baker, Ken Card, Herman Hack, Chick Hannan, Art Mix, Wally West, and Hank Worden in The Singing Outlaw (1937)
Lane Chandler, Earle Hodgins, Reed Howes, Fuzzy Knight, Dick Rush, and Hank Worden in Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground (1943)
Lynton Brent, Johnny Mack Brown, Earle Hodgins, Fuzzy Knight, Dennis Moore, Tex Ritter, and Hank Worden in Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground (1943)
Ed Cassidy, Tex Ritter, and Hank Worden in Hittin' the Trail (1937)
John Wayne, Harry Carey Jr., and Hank Worden in The Searchers (1956)
Roy Barcroft, Horace B. Carpenter, Buck Jones, Horace Murphy, Ralph Peters, Bud Pope, Loren Riebe, Bob Terry, and Hank Worden in The Stranger from Arizona (1938)
Bob Baker, Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Ferris Taylor, and Hank Worden in Chip of the Flying U (1939)

Known for

John Wayne, Natalie Wood, Ward Bond, Jeffrey Hunter, and Vera Miles in The Searchers (1956)
The Searchers
7.9
  • Mose Harper
  • 1956
John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, and Joanne Dru in Red River (1948)
Red River
7.8
  • Simms Reeves
  • 1948
John Wayne, Richard Widmark, and Laurence Harvey in The Alamo (1960)
The Alamo
6.8
  • Parson
  • 1960
Rebecca De Mornay, Eric Roberts, and Jon Voight in Runaway Train (1985)
Runaway Train
7.2
  • Old Con(as Norton E. 'Hank' Warden)
  • 1985

Credits

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Actor

  • Twin Peaks (1990)
    Twin Peaks
    • Waiter
    • TV Series
    • 1990–1991
  • James McDaniel, Anne Bobby, and David Gianopoulos in Cop Rock (1990)
    Cop Rock
    • 2nd Elderly Man
    • TV Series
    • 1990
  • Paul Hogan in Almost an Angel (1990)
    Almost an Angel
    • Pop
    • 1990
  • Big Bad John (1990)
    Big Bad John
    • Good Ole Boy
    • 1990
  • Once Upon a Texas Train (1988)
    Once Upon a Texas Train
    • Old Timer (as Hank Warden)
    • TV Movie
    • 1988
  • David Hasselhoff in Knight Rider (1982)
    Knight Rider
    • Slim
    • TV Series
    • 1986
  • Space Rage (1985)
    Space Rage
    • Old codger
    • 1985
  • Rebecca De Mornay, Eric Roberts, and Jon Voight in Runaway Train (1985)
    Runaway Train
    • Old Con (as Norton E. 'Hank' Warden)
    • 1985
  • UFOria (1984)
    UFOria
    • Colonel
    • 1984
  • The Ice Pirates (1984)
    The Ice Pirates
    • Elderly Jason
    • 1984
  • Sam Elliott and Cybill Shepherd in The Yellow Rose (1983)
    The Yellow Rose
    • Old Man
    • TV Series
    • 1983
  • Please Don't Eat the Babies (1983)
    Please Don't Eat the Babies
    • Gramps Jebediah
    • 1983
  • Sally Kirkland, William Bronder, William Callaway, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Jeannie Linero, Anthony Palmer, and Harvey Solin in Flush (1982)
    Flush
    • 1982
  • Marilu Henner, Peter Boyle, Frederic Forrest, David Patrick Kelly, and Lydia Lei in Hammett (1982)
    Hammett
    • Pool Room Attendant
    • 1982
  • Don Johnson, Jack Elam, P.J. Soles, Anthony Zerbe, Ben Johnson, and Dub Taylor in Soggy Bottom, U.S.A. (1981)
    Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
    • Old Geezer
    • 1981

Producer

  • Thank Ya, Thank Ya Kindly (1991)
    Thank Ya, Thank Ya Kindly
    • executive producer
    • TV Movie
    • 1991

Soundtrack

  • Bob Baker and Forrest Taylor in Ghost Town Riders (1938)
    Ghost Town Riders
    • performer: "It Ain't So Rosy on the Range"
    • 1938
  • Earl Dwire and Tex Ritter in Hittin' the Trail (1937)
    Hittin' the Trail
    • performer: "Hittin' the Trail", "Headin' For Town" (uncredited)
    • 1937

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Personal details

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  • Alternative names
    • Worden Norten
  • Height
    • 6′ 1½″ (1.87 m)
  • Born
    • July 23, 1901
    • Rolfe, Iowa, USA
  • Died
    • December 6, 1992
    • Los Angeles, California, USA(natural causes)
  • Spouse
    • Emma Louise EatonJune 7, 1940 - January 6, 1977 (her death)
  • Other works
    Stage: Appeared in "Green Grow the Lilacs" on Broadway.

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    Worked on several Tex Ritter Westerns billed as Heber Snow because the producer felt that a Mormon-like name such as Heber Snow would help the films do better business in heavily-Mormon areas such as Utah.
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      Manic characters of frequently questionable mental stability

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