HANK WORDEN - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 294505

HANK WORDEN
Younger image, shown looking up at a mustached man in a 1937 movie still
Photograph signed: "Best Wishes/Hank Worden". B/w, 10x8. Shown with an unidentified actor in a movie still from 1937. Character actor Hank Worden (1901-1992), born Norton Earl Worden, made his film debut in 1935 in an uncredited role in Barbary Coast, and he would go on to make dozens of films until 1990 (Almost an Angel). An expert horseman and wrangler, Worden appeared in a number of Tex Ritter Westerns and in 14 films with John Wayne. His credits include The Plainsman (1936), Stagecoach (1939), Northwest Passage (1940), Brigham Young (1940), So Proudly We Hail! (1943), National Barn Dance (1944), Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945), The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), Fort Apache (1948), The Searchers (1956), The Alamo (1960), The Music Man (1962), True Grit (1969), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978), Every Which Way But Loose (1978) and The Ice Pirates (1984). Worden also made guest appearances on a number of TV series, including several episodes of The Lone Ranger (1949-1957) and two episodes of such Western series as Rawhide (1960), Bonanza (1960-1961) and Wagon Train (1960-1961), and he had a recurring role as "The Elderly and Senile Room Service Waiter" on the TV cult favorite, Twin Peaks (1990-1991). Worden appeared in 13 movies in 1937, all Westerns! Many of these cast him as Tex Ritter's sidekick. Corners lightly creased. Otherwise, fine condition.