Hank Worden

Biography: Bald, lanky, laconic American actor Hank Worden made his screen debut in The Plainsman (1936), and began playing simpleminded rustics at least as early as the 1941 El Brendel two-reel comedy Love at First Fright. A member in good standing of director John Ford's unofficial stock company, Worden appeared in such Ford classics as Fort Apache (1948) and Wagonmaster (1950). The quintessential Worden-Ford collaboration was The Searchers (1955) wherein Worden portrayed the near-moronic Mose Harper, who spoke in primitive, epigrammatic half-sentences and who seemed gleefully obsessed with the notion of unexpected death. Never a "normal" actor by any means, Worden continued playing characters who spoke as if they'd been kicked by a horse in childhood into the '80s; his last appearance was a recurring role in the quirky David Lynch TV serial Twin Peaks. In real life, Hank Worden was far from addled and had a razor-sharp memory, as proven in his many appearances at Western fanBald, lanky, laconic American actor Hank Worden made his screen debut in The Plainsman (1936), and began playing simpleminded rustics at least as early as the 1941 El Brendel two-reel comedy Love at First Fright. A member in good standing of director John Ford's unofficial stock company, Worden appeared in such Ford classics as Fort Apache (1948) and Wagonmaster (1950). The quintessential Worden-Ford collaboration was The Searchers (1955) wherein Worden portrayed the near-moronic Mose Harper, who spoke in primitive, epigrammatic half-sentences and who seemed gleefully obsessed with the notion of unexpected death. Never a "normal" actor by any means, Worden continued playing characters who spoke as if they'd been kicked by a horse in childhood into the '80s; his last appearance was a recurring role in the quirky David Lynch TV serial Twin Peaks. In real life, Hank Worden was far from addled and had a razor-sharp memory, as proven in his many appearances at Western fan conventions and in an interview program about living in the modern desert, filmed just before Worden's death for cable TV's Discovery Channel. Expand

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Title: Year: Credit: User score:
tbd Gunsmoke: Season 20 Sep 9, 1974 Claude tbd
tbd Green Acres: Season 5 Sep 27, 1969 Man tbd
tbd Green Acres: Season 4 Sep 25, 1968 Farmer tbd
tbd The Beverly Hillbillies: Season 7 Sep 25, 1968 Harry tbd
tbd Petticoat Junction: Season 5 Sep 9, 1967 Band Member #1 / Band Member #1 / Luke tbd
tbd Petticoat Junction: Season 4 Sep 13, 1966 Roy Turlock / Roy Turlock tbd
tbd Bonanza: Season 8 Sep 11, 1966 Dave tbd
tbd Petticoat Junction: Season 3 Sep 14, 1965 Farmer #1 / Farmer #1 tbd
tbd Bonanza: Season 2 Sep 10, 1960 Ned Birch - Old Miner tbd
tbd Bonanza: Season 1 Sep 12, 1959 Station Attendant 8.0
tbd The Lone Ranger: Season 4 Sep 9, 1954 Judd, Stage Driver tbd
tbd The Lone Ranger: Season 3 Sep 11, 1952 Whip tbd