Hank Worden
1901-1992
Known for The Searchers, Stagecoach, Red River.
Biography
Raised on a cattle ranch in Montana. Educated at Stanford and the University of Nevada as an engineer. Washed out as an Army pilot. Toured the country in rodeos as a saddle bronc rider. Broke his neck in a horsefall in his 20s, but didn't know it until his 40s. Chosen along with Tex Ritter from a rodeo at Madison Square Garden in New York to appear in the Broadway play "Green Grow the Lilacs", the play from which the musical "Oklahoma" was later derived. Drove a cab in New York, then worked on dude ranches as a wrangler and as a guide on the Bright Angel trail of the Grand Canyon. Recommended by Billie Burke to several movie producers. Became friends with John Wayne, Howard Hawks, and later John Ford, all of whom provided him with much work. Survived by adopted daughter Dawn Henry. Date of Death: 6 December 1992, Los Angeles, California, USA (natural causes)
Movie Credits
Scream (1981)
The Quiet Gun (1957)
Once Upon a Texas Train (1988)
Please Don't Eat the Babies (1983)
Bullwhip (1958)
Spoilers of the Forest (1957)
The Big Sky (1952)
Black Market Rustlers (1943)
Big Bad John (1990)
Big Wednesday (1978)
The Horse Soldiers (1959)
Dragoon Wells Massacre (1957)
Sing Cowboy Sing (1937)
The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen (1937)
Space Rage (1985)
Forty Guns (1957)
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1956)
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way (1978)
The Searchers (1956)
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955)
3 Godfathers (1948)
Red River (1948)
UFOria (1984)
Bronco Billy (1980)
Woman of the North Country (1952)
Comin' Round the Mountain (1951)
Good Times (1967)
Accused of Murder (1956)
The Indian Fighter (1955)
The Fighting Kentuckian (1949)
Barbary Coast (1935)
Runaway Train (1985)
Every Which Way but Loose (1978)
McLintock! (1963)
Boots Malone (1952)
Joe Palooka in Triple Cross (1951)
The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
The Hanged Man (1974)
One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
Hondo and the Apaches (1967)
The Alamo (1960)
Cover Up (1949)
The Ice Pirates (1984)
The Music Man (1962)
Wagon Master (1950)
Flesh and Fantasy (1943)
Almost an Angel (1990)
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
Roseanna McCoy (1949)
Fort Apache (1948)
Cahill: United States Marshal (1973)
Yellow Sky (1948)
The Great Moment (1944)
Beyond Tomorrow (1940)
Stagecoach (1939)
Zachariah (1971)
Father Is a Bachelor (1950)
Big Jake (1971)
The President's Analyst (1967)
Angel and the Badman (1947)
Which Way Is Up? (1977)
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945)
Hammett (1982)
Chisum (1970)
Robbers of the Range (1941)
Border Vigilantes (1941)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
Tap Roots (1948)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
Rio Lobo (1970)
Hellfire (1949)
Crime Wave (1953)
True Grit (1969)
Northwest Passage (1940)
The Night Riders (1939)
Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
Undercurrent (1946)
Whispering Smith (1948)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
