Hank Worden
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)
146 acting credits
Acting · 146
Bonanza
1959
Twin Peaks
1990
Knight Rider
1982
Wagon Train
1957
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
Petticoat Junction
1963
Daniel Boone
1964
Rawhide
1959
Green Acres
1965
The Lone Ranger
1949
Gunsmoke
1955
Lancer
1968
Bronco
1958
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956
True Grit
1969
Cop Rock
1990
The Searchers
1956
Stagecoach
1939
Smokey and the Bandit
1977
Chisum
1970
The Alamo
1960
McLintock!
1963
Runaway Train
1985
Every Which Way but Loose
1978
Rio Lobo
1970
The Horse Soldiers
1959
Fort Apache
1948
Duel in the Sun
1946
Red River
1948
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1971
Big Jake
1971
One-Eyed Jacks
1961
Bronco Billy
1980
3 Godfathers
1948
Cahill: United States Marshal
1973
The Ice Pirates
1984
The Music Man
1962
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947
Yellow Sky
1948
Angel and the Badman
1947
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1978
Big Wednesday
1978
Wagon Master
1950
The Sea of Grass
1947
Undercurrent
1946
Almost an Angel
1990
UFOria
1984
The Indian Fighter
1955
Forty Guns
1957
The Big Sky
1952
Space Rage
1985
Crime Wave
1953
The Cowboy and the Lady
1938
Frenchie
1950
High Wall
1947
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
1955
Northwest Passage
1940
The President's Analyst
1967
Sergeant Rutledge
1960
Scream
1981
Hellfire
1949
When Willie Comes Marching Home
1950
Gaucho Serenade
1940
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945
The Fighting Kentuckian
1949
Hammett
1982
Come and Get It
1936
The Great Moment
1944
The Hanged Man
1974
So Proudly We Hail
1943
The Range Busters
1940
Whispering Smith
1948
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
1956
Triple Justice
1940
The Night Riders
1939
Hazard
1948
Comin' Round the Mountain
1951
Which Way Is Up?
1977
Once Upon a Texas Train
1988
Barbary Coast
1935
Tap Roots
1948
Beyond Tomorrow
1940
Flesh and Fantasy
1943
The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen
1937
Roseanna McCoy
1949
Brigham Young
1940
Boots Malone
1952
Cover Up
1949
Hondo and the Apaches
1967
Good Times
1967
Father Is a Bachelor
1950
Accused of Murder
1956
Dragoon Wells Massacre
1957
Sky Hei$t
1975
None Shall Escape
1944
Apache War Smoke
1952
Reno
1939
The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
1958
Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
1948
The Buckskin Lady
1957
Zachariah
1971
Frontier Town
1938
Woman of the North Country
1952
Ghost Town Gold
1936
The Sainted Sisters
1948
Rollin' Westward
1939
A Lady Takes a Chance
1943
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
1978
The Californian
1937
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
1981
Black Noon
1971
Hollywood Round-Up
1937
Border Vigilantes
1941
John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
1992
The Woman of the Town
1943
Spoilers of the Forest
1957
Viva Cisco Kid
1940
The Man from Texas
1948
Thunder Over Arizona
1956
The Notorious Mr. Monks
1958
The Legend of Frank Woods
1977
Oklahoma Frontier
1939
Cross-Country Romance
1940
Bullwhip
1958
Riders of Pasco Basin
1940
Ghost Town Riders
1938
The Quiet Gun
1957
Winners of the West
1940
Sugarfoot
1951
Triple Cross
1951
Big Bad John
1990
Robbers of the Range
1941
Sing Cowboy Sing
1937
Hittin' the Trail
1937
Please Don't Eat the Babies
1983
The Stranger from Arizona
1938
Prairie Express
1947
Black Market Rustlers
1943
Lawless Breed
1946
Sundown on the Prairie
1939
Big Daddy
1969
Deep in the Heart of Texas
1942
Chip of the Flying U
1939
Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride
1940
For the Service
1936
Mad About Moonshine
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