Hank Worden
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)
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1901-07-23
Place of birth
Rolfe, Iowa, USA
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Cast
Stagecoach
1939
7.63
The Ice Pirates
1984
5.62
Red River
1948
7.34
The Searchers
1956
7.70
Runaway Train
1985
7.00
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947
6.70
The Music Man
1962
7.10
3 Godfathers
1948
6.74
Accused of Murder
1956
4.50
The Big Sky
1952
6.50
McLintock!
1963
6.56
The Horse Soldiers
1959
6.94
Sing Cowboy Sing
1937
3.00
One-Eyed Jacks
1961
6.73
The Stranger from Arizona
1938
3.00
Dragoon Wells Massacre
1957
6.90
Rio Lobo
1970
6.43
Please Don't Eat the Babies
1983
4.40
Thunder Over Arizona
1956
6.00
Scream
1981
4.00
The Notorious Mr. Monks
1958
0.00
Hellfire
1949
5.80
Apache War Smoke
1952
3.00
The Man from Texas
1948
6.00
Hittin' the Trail
1937
5.00
Which Way Is Up?
1977
6.10
Smokey and the Bandit
1977
7.00
The Quiet Gun
1957
6.40
Frenchie
1950
5.70
Whispering Smith
1948
6.55
Hondo and the Apaches
1967
6.80
The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
1958
6.00
The Sainted Sisters
1948
7.00
Comin' Round the Mountain
1951
5.81
Ghost Town Riders
1938
0.00
Riders of Pasco Basin
1940
2.00
Forty Guns
1957
6.52
Cahill: United States Marshal
1973
6.10
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
1981
4.50
Barbary Coast
1935
6.57
Come and Get It
1936
6.80
Bullwhip
1958
4.40
The Cowboy and the Lady
1938
6.10
Roseanna McCoy
1949
6.10
Sugarfoot
1951
5.00
Chisum
1970
6.70
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1971
7.00
True Grit
1969
7.33
The Alamo
1960
7.08
The President's Analyst
1967
5.78
Big Wednesday
1978
6.92
Frontier Town
1938
5.00
Hollywood Round-Up
1937
4.40
Bronco Billy
1980
6.30
Sergeant Rutledge
1960
7.06
Spoilers of the Forest
1957
0.00
Fort Apache
1948
7.00
The Night Riders
1939
5.55
Reno
1939
6.00
The Buckskin Lady
1957
3.83
Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride
1940
4.00
Viva Cisco Kid
1940
5.50
The Range Busters
1940
5.20
Rollin' Westward
1939
5.00
When Willie Comes Marching Home
1950
6.80
For the Service
1936
0.00
Crime Wave
1953
7.09
Sundown on the Prairie
1939
0.00
Angel and the Badman
1947
6.40
Robbers of the Range
1941
7.00
The Great Moment
1944
5.88
Father Is a Bachelor
1950
7.40
Cover Up
1949
6.50
The Indian Fighter
1955
6.30
Lawless Breed
1946
0.00
Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
1948
6.50
Triple Justice
1940
6.00
The Sea of Grass
1947
6.30
Oklahoma Frontier
1939
0.00
Chip of the Flying U
1939
0.00
Brigham Young
1940
4.40
Gaucho Serenade
1940
6.00
The Californian
1937
0.00
Big Jake
1971
6.88
Winners of the West
1940
0.00
Good Times
1967
5.10
Northwest Passage
1940
6.40
Hazard
1948
8.00
Beyond Tomorrow
1940
5.99
Cross-Country Romance
1940
6.40
Black Market Rustlers
1943
0.00
Prairie Express
1947
0.00
Border Vigilantes
1941
6.00
Deep in the Heart of Texas
1942
5.00
Woman of the North Country
1952
4.50
The Woman of the Town
1943
6.20
A Lady Takes a Chance
1943
5.70
Flesh and Fantasy
1943
6.80
Boots Malone
1952
7.50
Yellow Sky
1948
6.94
The Fighting Kentuckian
1949
5.90
The Legend of Frank Woods
1977
0.00
Duel in the Sun
1946
6.36
The Hanged Man
1974
4.00
So Proudly We Hail
1943
5.50
Undercurrent
1946
5.80
Big Daddy
1969
0.00
Every Which Way but Loose
1978
6.10
Hammett
1982
6.25
Tap Roots
1948
6.65
Black Noon
1971
6.10
Joe Palooka in Triple Cross
1951
0.00
UFOria
1984
5.60
Big Bad John
1990
4.00
Wagon Master
1950
6.66
Space Rage
1985
3.70
Once Upon a Texas Train
1988
5.40
Almost an Angel
1990
5.70
John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
1992
6.00
Big Wednesday
1978
6.92
Zachariah
1971
5.29
Ghost Town Gold
1936
4.50
None Shall Escape
1944
6.33