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