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Big Bad John

as Good Ole Boy

1990
Once Upon a Texas Train

as Old Timer

1988
Please Don't Eat the Babies

as Gramps Jebediah

1983
Scream

as John

1981
Black Noon

as Joseph

1971
The Horse Soldiers

as Deacon Clump

1959
Forty Guns

as

1957
Dragoon Wells Massacre

as Hopi Charlie

1957
The Buckskin Lady

as Lon

1957
The Quiet Gun

as Sampson

1957
Thunder Over Arizona

as Old Jonas

1956
The Big Sky

as Poordevil

1952
Sugarfoot

as Johnny Behind-the-Stove

1951
Lawless Breed

as The Deputy

1946
Sing Cowboy Sing

as Henchman

1937
Hittin' the Trail

as Sidekick Hank

1937
Hank Worden Hank Worden

Birthday

1901-07-23

Place of Birth

Rolfe, Iowa, USA

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)
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