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Hank Patterson‌

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Birthday

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Hank Patterson

Springville, Alabama, USA

Hank Patterson

Springville, Alabama, USA

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1888-10-09

Popularity

star5.2

Biography

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."

Movie Credits

Panhandle

Panhandle‌
star5.8
calendar 1948

The Saga of Hemp Brown

The Saga of Hemp Brown‌
star5.6
calendar 1958

Lone Texan

Lone Texan‌
star5.0
calendar 1959

Southwest Passage

Southwest Passage‌
star5.4
calendar 1954

California Conquest

California Conquest‌
star4.6
calendar 1952

Terror in a Texas Town

Terror in a Texas Town‌
star6.7
calendar 1958

Attack of the Puppet People

Attack of the Puppet People‌
star5.0
calendar 1958

Gunmen from Laredo

Gunmen from Laredo‌
star4.7
calendar 1959

Gunfighters of Abilene

Gunfighters of Abilene‌
star5.0
calendar 1960

The Cowboy and the Indians

The Cowboy and the Indians‌
star6.8
calendar 1949

The Arizona Kid

The Arizona Kid‌
star5.8
calendar 1939

Gunsight Ridge

Gunsight Ridge‌
star6.0
calendar 1957

Duel in the Sun

Duel in the Sun‌
star6.3
calendar 1946

The Return of Jesse James

The Return of Jesse James‌
star5.0
calendar 1950

Julie

Julie‌
star5.7
calendar 1956

The Spider

The Spider‌
star4.6
calendar 1958

Jack Slade

Jack Slade‌
star6.4
calendar 1953

Bells of San Angelo

Bells of San Angelo‌
star4.5
calendar 1947

Attack of the Puppet People

Attack of the Puppet People‌
star5.0
calendar 1958

The Amazing Colossal Man

The Amazing Colossal Man‌
star4.4
calendar 1957

The Storm Rider

The Storm Rider‌
star0.0
calendar 1957

Tarantula

Tarantula‌
star6.5
calendar 1955

Night Time in Nevada

Night Time in Nevada‌
star6.2
calendar 1948

Springtime in the Sierras

Springtime in the Sierras‌
star4.2
calendar 1947

The Absent-Minded Professor

The Absent-Minded Professor‌
star6.4
calendar 1961

Beginning of the End

Beginning of the End‌
star3.7
calendar 1957

The Decks Ran Red

The Decks Ran Red‌
star6.4
calendar 1958

Strange Intruder

Strange Intruder‌
star5.6
calendar 1956

Code of the Silver Sage

Code of the Silver Sage‌
star6.0
calendar 1950

Monster on the Campus

Monster on the Campus‌
star6.1
calendar 1958

The Gunfighter

The Gunfighter‌
star7.2
calendar 1950

Abilene Town

Abilene Town‌
star5.2
calendar 1946

Three Faces West

Three Faces West‌
star5.5
calendar 1940

Robin Hood Of Texas

Robin Hood Of Texas‌
star0.0
calendar 1947

Robin Hood Of Texas

Robin Hood Of Texas‌
star0.0
calendar 1947

Desperadoes of the West

Desperadoes of the West‌
star3.8
calendar 1950

Don Daredevil Rides Again

Don Daredevil Rides Again‌
star6.0
calendar 1951

Silver City Bonanza

Silver City Bonanza‌
star0.0
calendar 1951

Santa Fe Uprising

Santa Fe Uprising‌
star0.0
calendar 1946

Sabotage

Sabotage‌
star7.0
calendar 1939

The El Paso Kid

The El Paso Kid‌
star0.0
calendar 1946

Under Colorado Skies

Under Colorado Skies‌
star0.0
calendar 1947

The James Brothers of Missouri

The James Brothers of Missouri‌
star6.0
calendar 1949

The Denver Kid

The Denver Kid‌
star7.0
calendar 1948

Oklahoma Badlands

Oklahoma Badlands‌
star3.0
calendar 1948

Relentless

Relentless‌
star6.2
calendar 1948

Blades of the Musketeers

Blades of the Musketeers‌
star0.0
calendar 1950

Phantom Trails

Phantom Trails‌
star0.0
calendar 1955

Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders

Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders‌
star6.0
calendar 1953

No Sad Songs for Me

No Sad Songs for Me‌
star6.2
calendar 1950

The First Traveling Saleslady

The First Traveling Saleslady‌
star5.4
calendar 1956

Tv Credits

Mister Ed

Mister Ed‌
star6.7
calendar 1961

The Andy Griffith Show

The Andy Griffith Show‌
star7.6
calendar 1960

Burke's Law

Burke's Law‌
star6.0
calendar 1963

Trackdown

Trackdown‌
star6.4
calendar 1957

Green Acres

Green Acres‌
star7.3
calendar 1965

The Beverly Hillbillies

The Beverly Hillbillies‌
star6.9
calendar 1962

Petticoat Junction

Petticoat Junction‌
star5.8
calendar 1963

The Mod Squad

The Mod Squad‌
star6.5
calendar 1968

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke‌
star6.5
calendar 1955

Perry Mason

Perry Mason‌
star7.6
calendar 1957

The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone‌
star8.4
calendar 1959

Sea Hunt

Sea Hunt‌
star6.5
calendar 1958

The Tall Man

The Tall Man‌
star6.3
calendar 1960

Laredo

Laredo‌
star6.3
calendar 1965

Straightaway

Straightaway‌
star0.0
calendar 1961

87th Precinct

87th Precinct‌
star7.5
calendar 1961

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse‌
star4.3
calendar 1958

Rawhide

Rawhide‌
star7.0
calendar 1959

Have Gun, Will Travel

Have Gun, Will Travel‌
star7.4
calendar 1957

Highway Patrol

Highway Patrol‌
star5.8
calendar 1955

Cimarron Strip

Cimarron Strip‌
star5.0
calendar 1967

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone‌
star6.9
calendar 1964

The Virginian

The Virginian‌
star6.4
calendar 1962

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars‌
star6.5
calendar 1951

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp‌
star6.7
calendar 1955

The Loner

The Loner‌
star5.7
calendar 1965

Bronco

Bronco‌
star4.8
calendar 1958

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok‌
star4.5
calendar 1951

The Alaskans

The Alaskans‌
star5.5
calendar 1959

Navy Log

Navy Log‌
star4.5
calendar 1955

Black Saddle

Black Saddle‌
star5.7
calendar 1959

Lock-Up

Lock-Up‌
star6.2
calendar 1959

The Rifleman

The Rifleman‌
star7.0
calendar 1958

Bat Masterson

Bat Masterson‌
star6.3
calendar 1958

The Guns of Will Sonnett

The Guns of Will Sonnett‌
star5.7
calendar 1967

Riverboat

Riverboat‌
star6.3
calendar 1959

The Texan

The Texan‌
star5.5
calendar 1958

Buffalo Bill Jr.

Buffalo Bill Jr.‌
star5.0
calendar 1955

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon‌
star6.0
calendar 1955

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre‌
star5.5
calendar 1956

The New Adventures of Spin and Marty

The New Adventures of Spin and Marty‌
star0.0
calendar 1957

The Legend of Jesse James

The Legend of Jesse James‌
star4.8
calendar 1965

Custer

Custer‌
star6.0
calendar 1967

The Westerner

The Westerner‌
star6.7
calendar 1960

City Detective

City Detective‌
star0.0
calendar 1953

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

The DuPont Show with June Allyson‌
star6.3
calendar 1959

Gang Busters

Gang Busters‌
star0.0
calendar 1952

Hopalong Cassidy

Hopalong Cassidy‌
star6.0
calendar 1952

Johnny Ringo

Johnny Ringo‌
star5.7
calendar 1959

Miami Undercover

Miami Undercover‌
star6.0
calendar 1961

Riverboat

Riverboat‌
star6.3
calendar 1959

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke‌
star6.5
calendar 1955

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke‌
star6.5
calendar 1955

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke‌
star6.5
calendar 1955

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke‌
star6.5
calendar 1955

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke‌
star6.5
calendar 1955

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke‌
star6.5
calendar 1955

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke‌
star6.5
calendar 1955

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke‌
star6.5
calendar 1955

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke‌
star6.5
calendar 1955

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre‌
star5.5
calendar 1956

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone‌
star6.9
calendar 1964

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone‌
star6.9
calendar 1964

Bat Masterson

Bat Masterson‌
star6.3
calendar 1958

Bat Masterson

Bat Masterson‌
star6.3
calendar 1958

The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone‌
star8.4
calendar 1959

The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone‌
star8.4
calendar 1959