Hank Patterson actor
- All known tv series 67
- Total known movies 51
Hank Patterson (born Elmer Calvin Patterson; October 9, 1888 – August 23, 1975) was an American actor and musician. He is known foremost for playing two recurring characters on three television series the stableman Hank Miller on Gunsmoke and farmer Fred Ziffel on both Petticoat Junction and Green Acres.Patterson found plenty of movie work, mainly playing cantankerous types as well as blacksmiths, hotel clerks, farmers, shopkeepers and other townsmen, usually bit roles and character parts in Republic Pictures westerns, and then in popular juvenile TV westerns such as The Cisco Kid, The Adventures of Kit Carson, The Lone Ranger, and Annie Oakley.Patterson played recurring or different roles in adult/family TV westerns, including the role of Hank Miller in 33 episodes of Gunsmoke from 1962 through 1972, on Have Gun-Will Travel (eleven episodes), Death Valley Days (nine episodes), Tales of Wells Fargo (seven episodes), Maverick (four episodes), Cheyenne (four episodes), Wagon Train (three episodes), Daniel Boone (three episodes), The Virginian (two episodes), The Rifleman, Bonanza, and in episodes of Lawman, Bat Masterson, The Restless Gun, and many others.He made additional TV appearances, including three episodes of The Twilight Zone as well as Perry Mason, Burkes Law, The Untouchables, Judd for the Defense, My Three Sons, and in later years The Mod Squad and Love, American Style.Highway Patrol.In 1963 Patterson first appeared in what would become a recurring role as farmer Fred Ziffel on the popular CBS rural comedy Petticoat Junction. In 1965 CBS debuted another rural comedy, Green Acres. Both series were set in the mythical farming community of Hooterville, with characters from Petticoat Junction often also appearing in Green Acres, including Pattersons Fred Ziffel character. It was on the popular, irreverent Green Acres that Patterson earned his greatest fame. In 1965 and 1966—two of the years in which the two series ran concurrently—Patterson frequently appeared in both shows in the same week on primetime.The association of Pattersons character with the popular character Arnold, the pet pig whom Fred and his wife Doris treated as a son, ensured Patterson a place in TV history. Arnold attended school, watched TV and was a talented artist, piano player, and actor. He even talked (snorted, grunted and squealed) in a language that everyone in Hooterville seemed to understand except Oliver Wendell Douglas (Green Acres co-star Eddie Albert).According to westernclippings.com Characters and Heavies by Boyd Magers, Ironically, by the time Patterson was doing Green Acres he was in his late 70s and almost completely deaf, but the producers loved his portrayal so much they worked around his hearing impairment by having the dialogue coach lying on the floor out-of-shot tapping Hanks leg with a yardstick as a cue to speak his line.
Old Timer (uncredited)
Movie 1948
Jack Stone (uncredited)
Movie 1959
Barstow
Movie 1954
Movie 1952
Brady
Movie 1958
Night Manager
Movie 1958
Movie 1959
Ranch hand Tom
Movie 1949
George Clark (uncredited)
Movie 1957
Man (uncredited)
Movie 1946
Henry
Movie 1957
Knife Grinder
Movie 1956
Sergeant Woods
Movie 1950
Josh
Movie 1955
Old-Timer
Movie 1947
Hugo
Movie 1958
Milstead
Movie 1957
Tramp
Movie 1948
Fisherman Spectator (uncredited)
Movie 1961
Theater Janitor
Movie 1958
Old Tom
Movie 1953
Moody
Movie 1958
Townsend - Night Watchman
Movie 1958
Jake (uncredited)
Movie 1950
Doug Neil
Movie 1946
Pool Player
Movie 1940
Taxi Driver
Movie 1947
Guest
Movie 1947
Hardrock Haggerty
Movie 1950
Buck Bender
Movie 1951
Postman
Movie 1951
Deputy Jake
Movie 1946
(uncredited)
Movie 1939
Jeff Winters
Movie 1946
Slim
Movie 1947
Duffy [Ch. 4] / Duffy [11]
Movie 1949
Sergeant Cooper
Movie 1948
Postmaster Fred
Movie 1948
Bob Pliny (uncredited)
Movie 1948
The Old Fisherman
Movie 1950
Jess Morgan
Movie 1955
Jed Larson
Movie 1953
Night Construction Workman (uncredited)
Movie 1950
Courtroom Spectator
Movie 1956
Tv 1961
Lukey Slade
Tv 1963
Tv 1957
Fred Ziffel
Tv 1965
Tv 1962
Fred Ziffell
Tv 1963
Tv 1968
Jack Gilly
Tv 1957
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Tv 1965
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Tv 1967
Tv 1951
Tv 1955
The Bartender
Tv 1965
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Tv 1955
Harvey Morgan
Tv 1959
Tv 1959
Tv 1958
Tv 1967
Rare
Tv 1959
Tv 1958
Tv 1955
Tv 1955
Slim Baker
Tv 1956
Tv 1957
Tv 1967
Sample
Tv 1960
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Tv 1952
Tv 1961
Johnny Mullins (uncredited)
Tv 1959
Jonas Mulvey
Tv 1956
