Hank Patterson
Biografia
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, Burke's 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 Patterson's 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 Patterson's 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 Hank's leg with a yardstick as a cue to speak his line."
Filmografia
Filmy i seriale od najnowszych
Love, American Style
Serial • 1969
jako Farmer
The Mod Squad
Serial • 1968
The Guns of Will Sonnett
Serial • 1967
Cimarron Strip
Serial • 1967
Custer
Serial • 1967
The Loner
Serial • 1965
jako The Bartender
Laredo
Serial • 1965
Green Acres
Serial • 1965
jako Fred Ziffel
The Legend of Jesse James
Serial • 1965
jako Porter
Daniel Boone
Serial • 1964
jako Jed Harper (uncredited)
Petticoat Junction
Serial • 1963
jako Fred Ziffell
Burke's Law
Serial • 1963
jako Lukey Slade
The Beverly Hillbillies
Serial • 1962
The Virginian
Serial • 1962
jako Old Man
Straightaway
Serial • 1961
87th Precinct
Serial • 1961
Miami Undercover
Serial • 1961
Latający profesor
Film • 1961
jako Fisherman Spectator (uncredited)
Mister Ed
Serial • 1961
The Andy Griffith Show
Serial • 1960
jako Hobo
The Westerner
Serial • 1960
jako Sample
The Tall Man
Serial • 1960
Gunfighters of Abilene
Film • 1960
jako Andy Ferris
The Alaskans
Serial • 1959
The Twilight Zone
Serial • 1959
jako Old Man
Johnny Ringo
Serial • 1959
jako Old Man
Lock-Up
Serial • 1959
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Serial • 1959
jako Mr. Phillips
Riverboat
Serial • 1959
jako Rare
Bonanza
Serial • 1959
jako Blacksmith
Lone Texan
Film • 1959
jako Jack Stone (uncredited)
Gunmen from Laredo
Film • 1959
No Name on the Bullet
Film • 1959
jako Ed - Chess Player (uncredited)
Black Saddle
Serial • 1959
jako Harvey Morgan
Rawhide
Serial • 1959
jako Simpson
Potwór na kampusie
Film • 1958
jako Townsend - Night Watchman
The Decks Ran Red
Film • 1958
jako Moody
Bat Masterson
Serial • 1958
jako Prospector
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Serial • 1958
The Rifleman
Serial • 1958
The Texan
Serial • 1958
Bronco
Serial • 1958
The Saga of Hemp Brown
Film • 1958
jako Gil Henry
Terror in a Texas Town
Film • 1958
jako Brady
Earth vs. the Spider
Film • 1958
jako Hugo
Atak ludzi lalek
Film • 1958
jako Night Manager
Sea Hunt
Serial • 1958
The New Adventures of Spin and Marty
Serial • 1957
jako Pete Duggan
The Amazing Colossal Man
Film • 1957
jako Henry
Trackdown
Serial • 1957
Perry Mason
Serial • 1957
jako Jack Gilly
Have Gun, Will Travel
Serial • 1957
Gunsight Ridge
Film • 1957
jako George Clark (uncredited)
Beginning of the End
Film • 1957
jako Dave
The Storm Rider
Film • 1957
jako Milstead
Julie
Film • 1956
jako Ellis
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Serial • 1956
jako Slim Baker
Strange Intruder
Film • 1956
jako Knife Grinder
The First Traveling Saleslady
Film • 1956
jako Courtroom Spectator
Tarantula
Film • 1955
jako Josh
Highway Patrol
Serial • 1955
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
Serial • 1955
Navy Log
Serial • 1955
Cheyenne
Serial • 1955
jako Sunset
Gunsmoke
Serial • 1955
jako Jake
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Serial • 1955
Phantom Trails
Film • 1955
jako Jess Morgan
Buffalo Bill, Jr.
Serial • 1955
Southwest Passage
Film • 1954
jako Barstow
Jack Slade
Film • 1953
jako Old Tom
City Detective
Serial • 1953
Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders
Film • 1953
jako Jed Larson
Woman They Almost Lynched
Film • 1953
jako Townsman (uncredited)
The Abbott and Costello Show
Serial • 1952
jako The Tramp
Death Valley Days
Serial • 1952
jako Phi Jones
Hopalong Cassidy
Serial • 1952
California Conquest
Film • 1952
Gang Busters
Serial • 1952
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Serial • 1951
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Serial • 1951
Don Daredevil Rides Again
Film • 1951
jako Buck Bender
Silver City Bonanza
Film • 1951
jako Postman
Blades of the Musketeers
Film • 1950
jako The Old Fisherman
Desperadoes of the West
Film • 1950
jako Hardrock Haggerty
The Return of Jesse James
Film • 1950
jako Clay County Marshal
The Gene Autry Show
Serial • 1950
jako Wagon Driver Idaho
Jim Ringo
Film • 1950
jako Jake (uncredited)
No Sad Songs for Me
Film • 1950
jako Night Construction Workman (uncredited)
Code of the Silver Sage
Film • 1950
jako Sergeant Woods
The Cowboy and the Indians
Film • 1949
jako Tom
The Lone Ranger
Serial • 1949
jako Calico
The James Brothers of Missouri
Film • 1949
jako Duffy [Ch. 4] / Duffy [11]
The Denver Kid
Film • 1948
jako Sergeant Cooper
Night Time in Nevada
Film • 1948
jako Tramp
Relentless
Film • 1948
jako Bob Pliny (uncredited)
Panhandle
Film • 1948
jako Old Timer (uncredited)
Oklahoma Badlands
Film • 1948
jako Postmaster Fred
Under Colorado Skies
Film • 1947
jako Slim
Springtime in the Sierras
Film • 1947
jako Old-Timer
Robin Hood Of Texas
Film • 1947
jako Taxi Driver
Bells of San Angelo
Film • 1947
jako Deaf bus passenger
Pojedynek w słońcu
Film • 1946
jako Man (uncredited)
Santa Fe Uprising
Film • 1946
jako Deputy Jake
The El Paso Kid
Film • 1946
jako Jeff Winters
Abilene Town
Film • 1946
jako Doug Neil
Three Faces West
Film • 1940
jako Pool Player
Sabotage
Film • 1939
jako (uncredited)
The Arizona Kid
Film • 1939
jako Townsman