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…
Filmography
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Love, American Style
1969
The Mod Squad
1968
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
Cimarron Strip
1967
Custer
1967
The Loner
1965
Laredo
1965
Green Acres
1965
The Legend of Jesse James
1965
Daniel Boone
1964
Petticoat Junction
1963
Burke's Law
1963
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
The Virginian
1962
Straightaway
1961
87th Precinct
1961
Miami Undercover
1961
The Absent-Minded Professor
1961
Mister Ed
1961
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
The Westerner
1960
The Tall Man
1960
Gunfighters of Abilene
1960
The Alaskans
1959
The Twilight Zone
1959
Johnny Ringo
1959
Lock-Up
1959
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
Riverboat
1959
Bonanza
1959
Lone Texan
1959
Gunmen from Laredo
1959
No Name on the Bullet
1959
Black Saddle
1959
Rawhide
1959
Monster on the Campus
1958
The Decks Ran Red
1958
Bat Masterson
1958
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
The Rifleman
1958
The Texan
1958
Bronco
1958
The Saga of Hemp Brown
1958
Terror in a Texas Town
1958
Earth vs. the Spider
1958
Attack of the Puppet People
1958
Sea Hunt
1958
The New Adventures of Spin and Marty
1957
The Amazing Colossal Man
1957
Trackdown
1957
Perry Mason
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Gunsight Ridge
1957
Beginning of the End
1957
The Storm Rider
1957
Julie
1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Strange Intruder
1956
The First Traveling Saleslady
1956
Tarantula
1955
Highway Patrol
1955
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
1955
Navy Log
1955
Cheyenne
1955
Gunsmoke
1955
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955
Phantom Trails
1955
Buffalo Bill Jr.
1955
Southwest Passage
1954
Jack Slade
1953
City Detective
1953
Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders
1953
The Abbott and Costello Show
1952
Death Valley Days
1952
Hopalong Cassidy
1952
California Conquest
1952
Gang Busters
Gang Busters
1952
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
Don Daredevil Rides Again
1951