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Hank Patterson
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Hank Patterson
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1888-10-09,Springville, Alabama, USA
Gender
Male
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."

Filmography

5.8

Panhandle
1948-02-22

The Saga of Hemp Brown

5.6

The Saga of Hemp Brown
1958-10-01

5

Lone Texan
1959-03-01

Southwest Passage

5.4

Southwest Passage
1954-04-01

California Conquest

4.6

California Conquest
1952-07-04

Terror in a Texas Town

6.7

Terror in a Texas Town
1958-09-01

Attack of the Puppet People

5

Attack of the Puppet People
1958-04-01

Gunmen from Laredo

4.7

Gunmen from Laredo
1959-03-01

Gunfighters of Abilene

5

Gunfighters of Abilene
1960-01-01

The Cowboy and the Indians

6.8

The Cowboy and the Indians
1949-09-15

The Arizona Kid

5.8

The Arizona Kid
1939-09-28

6

Gunsight Ridge
1957-09-01

Duel in the Sun

6.3

Duel in the Sun
1946-12-31

The Return of Jesse James

5

The Return of Jesse James
1950-08-01

The Absent-Minded Professor

6.5

The Absent-Minded Professor
1961-03-16

The Decks Ran Red

6.4

The Decks Ran Red
1958-10-10

4.719

The Spider
1958-09-01

Attack of the Puppet People

5

Attack of the Puppet People
1958-04-01

Beginning of the End

3.7

Beginning of the End
1957-06-28

The Storm Rider

0

The Storm Rider
1957-03-01

The Amazing Colossal Man

4.4

The Amazing Colossal Man
1957-10-25

5.7

Julie
1956-10-17

Strange Intruder

5.6

Strange Intruder
1956-09-02

6.5

Tarantula
1955-12-14

6.4

Jack Slade
1953-11-08

Code of the Silver Sage

6

Code of the Silver Sage
1950-03-25

Night Time in Nevada

6.2

Night Time in Nevada
1948-09-05

Springtime in the Sierras

4.2

Springtime in the Sierras
1947-07-15

Bells of San Angelo

4.5

Bells of San Angelo
1947-04-15

Monster on the Campus

6.1

Monster on the Campus
1958-12-17

7.275

The Gunfighter
1950-06-23

5.3

Abilene Town
1946-01-11

Three Faces West

5.375

Three Faces West
1940-07-03

Robin Hood Of Texas

0

Robin Hood Of Texas
1947-07-15

Robin Hood Of Texas

0

Robin Hood Of Texas
1947-07-15

Desperadoes of the West

3.8

Desperadoes of the West
1950-08-02

Don Daredevil Rides Again

6

Don Daredevil Rides Again
1951-04-10

Silver City Bonanza

0

Silver City Bonanza
1951-03-01

Santa Fe Uprising

0

Santa Fe Uprising
1946-11-15

7

Sabotage
1939-10-13

The El Paso Kid

0

The El Paso Kid
1946-05-22

Under Colorado Skies

0

Under Colorado Skies
1947-12-15

The James Brothers of Missouri

6

The James Brothers of Missouri
1949-08-31

7

The Denver Kid
1948-09-30

Oklahoma Badlands

3

Oklahoma Badlands
1948-02-22

6.2

Relentless
1948-06-15

Blades of the Musketeers

0

Blades of the Musketeers
1950-11-24

0

Phantom Trails
1955-05-08

Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders

6

Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders
1953-07-08

No Sad Songs for Me

6.2

No Sad Songs for Me
1950-04-27

The First Traveling Saleslady

5.4

The First Traveling Saleslady
1956-08-01

6.7

Mister Ed
1961-01-05

The Andy Griffith Show

7.568

The Andy Griffith Show
1960-10-03

6

Burke's Law
1963-09-20

6.4

Trackdown
1957-10-04

7.214

Green Acres
1965-09-15

The Beverly Hillbillies

6.8

The Beverly Hillbillies
1962-09-26

Petticoat Junction

5.797

Petticoat Junction
1963-09-24

6.261

The Mod Squad
1968-09-24

6.6

Gunsmoke
1955-09-10

7.7

Perry Mason
1957-09-21

The Twilight Zone

8.438

The Twilight Zone
1959-10-02

6.531

Sea Hunt
1958-01-04

6.3

The Tall Man
1960-09-10

6.3

Laredo
1965-09-16

0

Straightaway
1961-10-06

7.5

87th Precinct
1961-09-25

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

5.25

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958-10-06

7.182

Rawhide
1959-01-09

Have Gun, Will Travel

7.4

Have Gun, Will Travel
1957-09-14

5.8

Highway Patrol
1955-10-03

5

Cimarron Strip
1967-09-07

6.9

Daniel Boone
1964-09-24

6.4

The Virginian
1962-09-19

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

7

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951-10-05

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

6.556

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955-09-06

5.7

The Loner
1965-09-18

4.8

Bronco
1958-09-23

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

4.5

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951-04-15

5.5

The Alaskans
1959-10-04

4.5

Navy Log
1955-09-20

6

Black Saddle
1959-01-10

6.2

Lock-Up
1959-09-28

7

The Rifleman
1958-09-30

6.077

Bat Masterson
1958-10-08

The Guns of Will Sonnett

6.25

The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967-09-08

6.2

Riverboat
1959-09-13

5

The Texan
1958-09-29

Buffalo Bill Jr.

5

Buffalo Bill Jr.
1955-03-01

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon

5.667

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
1955-09-29

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

5.5

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956-10-05

The New Adventures of Spin and Marty

0

The New Adventures of Spin and Marty
1957-11-04

The Legend of Jesse James

4.8

The Legend of Jesse James
1965-09-13

6

Custer
1967-09-06

6.8

The Westerner
1960-09-30

0

City Detective
1953-09-07

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

6.3

The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959-09-21

0

Gang Busters
1952-03-20

Hopalong Cassidy

5.2

Hopalong Cassidy
1952-09-19

5.7

Johnny Ringo
1959-10-02

Miami Undercover

6

Miami Undercover
1961-01-23

6.2

Riverboat
1959-09-13

6.6

Gunsmoke
1955-09-10

6.6

Gunsmoke
1955-09-10

6.6

Gunsmoke
1955-09-10

6.6

Gunsmoke
1955-09-10

6.6

Gunsmoke
1955-09-10

6.6

Gunsmoke
1955-09-10

6.6

Gunsmoke
1955-09-10

6.6

Gunsmoke
1955-09-10

6.6

Gunsmoke
1955-09-10

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

5.5

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956-10-05

6.9

Daniel Boone
1964-09-24

6.9

Daniel Boone
1964-09-24

6.077

Bat Masterson
1958-10-08

6.077

Bat Masterson
1958-10-08

The Twilight Zone

8.438

The Twilight Zone
1959-10-02

The Twilight Zone

8.438

The Twilight Zone
1959-10-02