Personal Info
Hank Patterson
Acting
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 Adve…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
The Absent-Minded Professor
as Fisherman Spectator (uncredited)
Gunfighters of Abilene
as Andy Ferris
No Name on the Bullet
as Ed - Chess Player (uncredited)
Gunmen from Laredo
Lone Texan
as Jack Stone (uncredited)
The Saga of Hemp Brown
as Gil Henry
Earth vs. the Spider
as Hugo
Monster on the Campus
as Townsend - Night Watchman
Terror in a Texas Town
as Brady
The Decks Ran Red
as Moody
TV Shows
Love, American Style
as Farmer · 1 ep.
The Mod Squad
1 ep.
Cimarron Strip
1 ep.
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1 ep.
Custer
1 ep.
Green Acres
as Fred Ziffel · 30 ep.
Laredo
1 ep.
The Loner
as The Bartender · 1 ep.
The Legend of Jesse James
as Porter · 1 ep.
Daniel Boone
as Fiddler · 1 ep.