Hank Patterson
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."
Fotos
Películas (52)
The Absent-Minded Professor
1961 · Fisherman Spectator (uncredited)
Gunfighters of Abilene
1960 · Andy Ferris
Lone Texan
1959 · Jack Stone (uncredited)
Gunmen from Laredo
1959
No Name on the Bullet
1959 · Ed - Chess Player (uncredited)
Monster on the Campus
1958 · Townsend - Night Watchman
The Decks Ran Red
1958 · Moody
The Saga of Hemp Brown
1958 · Gil Henry
Terror in a Texas Town
1958 · Brady (uncredited)
Earth vs. the Spider
1958 · Hugo
Attack of the Puppet People
1958 · Night Manager, Theater Janitor
The Amazing Colossal Man
1957 · Henry
Gunsight Ridge
1957 · George Clark (uncredited)
Beginning of the End
1957 · Dave
The Storm Rider
1957 · Milstead
Julie
1956 · Ellis
Strange Intruder
1956 · Knife Grinder
The First Traveling Saleslady
1956 · Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Tarantula
1955 · Josh
Phantom Trails
1955 · Jess Morgan
Southwest Passage
1954 · Barstow
Jack Slade
1953 · Old Tom
Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders
1953 · Jed Larson
Woman They Almost Lynched
1953 · Townsman (uncredited)
California Conquest
1952
Don Daredevil Rides Again
1951 · Buck Bender
Silver City Bonanza
1951 · Postman
Blades of the Musketeers
1950 · The Old Fisherman
Desperadoes of the West
1950 · Hardrock Haggerty
The Return of Jesse James
1950 · Clay County Marshal
The Gunfighter
1950 · Jake (uncredited)
No Sad Songs for Me
1950 · Night Construction Workman (uncredited)
Code of the Silver Sage
1950 · Sergeant Woods
The Cowboy and the Indians
1949 · Tom
The James Brothers of Missouri
1949 · Duffy [Ch. 4] / Duffy [11]
The Denver Kid
1948 · Sergeant Cooper
Night Time in Nevada
1948 · Tramp
Relentless
1948 · Bob Pliny (uncredited)
Panhandle
1948 · Old Timer (uncredited)
Oklahoma Badlands
1948 · Postmaster Fred
Under Colorado Skies
1947 · Slim
Springtime in the Sierras
1947 · Old-Timer
Robin Hood Of Texas
1947 · Taxi Driver, Guest
Bells of San Angelo
1947 · Deaf bus passenger
Duel in the Sun
1946 · Man (uncredited)
Gallant Bess
1946 · Ranch Hand (uncredited)
Santa Fe Uprising
1946 · Deputy Jake
The El Paso Kid
1946 · Jeff Winters
Abilene Town
1946 · Doug Neil
Three Faces West
1940 · Pool Player
Sabotage
1939 · (uncredited)
The Arizona Kid
1939 · Townsman
Series (57)
Love, American Style
1969 · Farmer
The Mod Squad
1968
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
Cimarron Strip
1967
Custer
1967
The Loner
1965 · The Bartender
Laredo
1965
Green Acres
1965 · Fred Ziffel
The Legend of Jesse James
1965 · Porter
Daniel Boone
1964 · Jed Harper (uncredited), Gray, Fiddler
Petticoat Junction
1963 · Fred Ziffell
Burke's Law
1963 · Lukey Slade
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
The Virginian
1962 · Old Man
Straightaway
1961
87th Precinct
1961
Miami Undercover
1961
Mister Ed
1961
The Andy Griffith Show
1960 · Hobo
The Westerner
1960 · Sample
The Tall Man
1960
The Alaskans
1959
The Twilight Zone
1959 · Old Man, Freitag, Mr. Gentry
Johnny Ringo
1959 · Old Man
Lock-Up
1959
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959 · Mr. Phillips
Riverboat
1959 · Rare, Johnny Mullins (uncredited)
Bonanza
1959 · Blacksmith
Black Saddle
1959 · Harvey Morgan
Rawhide
1959 · Simpson
Bat Masterson
1958 · Prospector, Soda Smith, Warren T. 'Soda' Smith
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
The Rifleman
1958
The Texan
1958
Bronco
1958 · Railroad Costigan
Sea Hunt
1958
The New Adventures of Spin and Marty
1957 · Pete Duggan
Trackdown
1957
Perry Mason
1957 · Jack Gilly
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Slim Baker, Jonas Mulvey
Highway Patrol
1955
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
1955
Navy Log
1955
Cheyenne
1955 · Sunset
Gunsmoke
1955 · Jake, Carl, Judge, Crowbait, Carl Miller, Hank Miller, Cowboy, Hank, Hank Miller (uncredited), Livery Man
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955
Buffalo Bill Jr.
1955
City Detective
1953
The Abbott and Costello Show
1952 · The Tramp
Death Valley Days
1952 · Phi Jones
Hopalong Cassidy
1952
Gang Busters
1952
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
The Gene Autry Show
1950 · Wagon Driver Idaho
The Lone Ranger
1949 · Calico