Hank Patterson
Actor
Born October 9, 1888 in Springville, Alabama, USA
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.
Filmography
Love, American Style
Farmer
The Mod Squad
The Guns of Will Sonnett
Cimarron Strip
Custer
The Loner
The Bartender
Laredo
Green Acres
Fred Ziffel
The Legend of Jesse James
Porter
Daniel Boone
Jed Harper (uncredited)
Petticoat Junction
Fred Ziffell
Burke's Law
Lukey Slade
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Virginian
Old Man
Straightaway
87th Precinct
Miami Undercover
The Absent-Minded Professor
Fisherman Spectator (uncredited)
Mister Ed
The Andy Griffith Show
Hobo
The Westerner
Sample
The Tall Man
Gunfighters of Abilene
Andy Ferris
The Alaskans
The Twilight Zone
Old Man
Johnny Ringo
Old Man
Lock-Up
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Mr. Phillips
Riverboat
Rare
Bonanza
Blacksmith
Lone Texan
Jack Stone (uncredited)
Gunmen from Laredo
No Name on the Bullet
Ed - Chess Player (uncredited)
Black Saddle
Harvey Morgan
Rawhide
Simpson
Monster on the Campus
Townsend - Night Watchman
The Decks Ran Red
Moody
Bat Masterson
Prospector
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
The Rifleman
The Texan
Bronco
The Saga of Hemp Brown
Gil Henry
Terror in a Texas Town
Brady
Earth vs. the Spider
Hugo
Attack of the Puppet People
Night Manager
Sea Hunt
The New Adventures of Spin and Marty
Pete Duggan
The Amazing Colossal Man
Henry
Trackdown
Perry Mason
Jack Gilly
Have Gun, Will Travel
Gunsight Ridge
George Clark (uncredited)
Beginning of the End
Dave
The Storm Rider
Milstead
Julie
Ellis
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Slim Baker
Strange Intruder
Knife Grinder
The First Traveling Saleslady
Courtroom Spectator
Tarantula
Josh
Highway Patrol
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
Navy Log
Cheyenne
Sunset
Gunsmoke
Jake
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Phantom Trails
Jess Morgan
Buffalo Bill Jr.
Southwest Passage
Barstow
Jack Slade
Old Tom
City Detective
Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders
Jed Larson
Woman They Almost Lynched
Townsman (uncredited)
The Abbott and Costello Show
The Tramp
Death Valley Days
Phi Jones
Hopalong Cassidy
California Conquest
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Don Daredevil Rides Again
Buck Bender
Silver City Bonanza
Postman
Blades of the Musketeers
The Old Fisherman
Desperadoes of the West
Hardrock Haggerty
The Return of Jesse James
Clay County Marshal
The Gene Autry Show
Wagon Driver Idaho
The Gunfighter
Jake (uncredited)
No Sad Songs for Me
Night Construction Workman (uncredited)
Code of the Silver Sage
Sergeant Woods
The Cowboy and the Indians
Tom
The Lone Ranger
Calico
The James Brothers of Missouri
Duffy [Ch. 4] / Duffy [11]
The Denver Kid
Sergeant Cooper
Night Time in Nevada
Tramp
Relentless
Bob Pliny (uncredited)
Panhandle
Old Timer (uncredited)
Oklahoma Badlands
Postmaster Fred
Under Colorado Skies
Slim
Springtime in the Sierras
Old-Timer
Robin Hood Of Texas
Taxi Driver
Bells of San Angelo
Deaf bus passenger
Duel in the Sun
Man (uncredited)
Santa Fe Uprising
Deputy Jake
The El Paso Kid
Jeff Winters
Abilene Town
Doug Neil
Three Faces West
Pool Player
Sabotage
(uncredited)
The Arizona Kid
Townsman