HANK PATTERSON
ACTING
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.
- Jack Slade1953
- Beginning of the End1957
- The Storm Rider1957
- Strange Intruder1956
- The Spider1958
- Tarantula1955
- The Amazing Colossal Man1957
- Code of the Silver Sage1950
- Night Time in Nevada1948
- Springtime in the Sierras1947
- Bells of San Angelo1947
- Gunfighters of Abilene1960
- The Cowboy and the Indians1949
- Julie1956
- The Arizona Kid1939
- The Absent-Minded Professor1961
- The Decks Ran Red1958
- Attack of the Puppet People1958
- Monster on the Campus1958
- The Gunfighter1950
- Abilene Town1946
- Three Faces West1940
- Robin Hood Of Texas1947
- Robin Hood Of Texas1947
- Santa Fe Uprising1946
- Desperadoes of the West1950
- Don Daredevil Rides Again1951
- Silver City Bonanza1951
- Sabotage1939
- The El Paso Kid1946
- Under Colorado Skies1947
- The Denver Kid1948
- Oklahoma Badlands1948
- Relentless1948
- The James Brothers of Missouri1949
- Blades of the Musketeers1950
- Phantom Trails1955
- No Sad Songs for Me1950
- The First Traveling Saleslady1956
- Panhandle1948
- Southwest Passage1954
- Attack of the Puppet People1958
- Gunsight Ridge1957
- Duel in the Sun1946
- The Return of Jesse James1950
- The Saga of Hemp Brown1958
- Lone Texan1959
- Terror in a Texas Town1958
- Petticoat Junction1963
- Gunsmoke1955
- Rawhide1959
- Daniel Boone1964
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre1956
- The Andy Griffith Show1960
- Burke's Law1963
- Perry Mason1957
- The Twilight Zone1959
- The Virginian1962
- Black Saddle1959
- Bat Masterson1958
- The Twilight Zone1959
- The Twilight Zone1959
- Gunsmoke1955
- Gunsmoke1955
- Gunsmoke1955
- Gunsmoke1955
- Gunsmoke1955
- Gunsmoke1955
- Gunsmoke1955
- Gunsmoke1955
- Gunsmoke1955
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre1956
- Daniel Boone1964
- Daniel Boone1964
- Bat Masterson1958
- Bat Masterson1958
- The Westerner1960