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Earle Hodgins

Earle Hodgins

Birthday: 1893-10-06 | Place of Birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Earle Hodgins (October 6, 1893 – April 14, 1964) was an American actor. Early in his career, Hodgins was active in stock theater, including working in the Ralph Cloninger troupe of Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Siegel Stock company of Seattle, Washington. He appeared in over 330 films and television shows between 1932 and 1963. He specialized in playing fast-talking con men—often in westerns, such as The Lone Ranger, Judge Roy Bean, The Cisco Kid, The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, Rawhide, Maverick, Lawman, The Rifleman, Cheyenne, Have Gun – Will Travel, Gunsmoke and Hopalong Cassidy. In the 1960-1961 season, he appeared in three episodes of Joanne Dru's ABC sitcom, Guestward, Ho! as the aging ranch wrangler known as "Lonesome." In one of those episodes, "Lonesome's Gal", he was cast opposite ZaSu Pitts. Thereafter, the two died within a year of each other. Hodgins' other television roles were as carnival barkers, medicine-show salesmen, and the like. He was known for shooing away obstreporous children from his stage, snapping at them, "Get away, son, ya bother me". Hodgins married Sue Hanley, who was described in a newspaper item as "a Seattle society girl."

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1954
The Forty-Niners

as    Hotel Clerk

1948
Silent Conflict

as    Doc Richards

1948
Borrowed Trouble

as    Sheriff

1947
The Marauders

as    County Clerk Tom

1947
Oregon Trail Scouts

as    The Judge

1946
The Devil's Playground

as    Deputy Dan'l

1946
Valley of the Zombies

as    Fred Mays (Fred Murks)

1946
Accomplice

as    Jeff Bailey

1946
Rustler's Round-up

as    Sheriff Fin Elder

1945
The Topeka Terror

as    Don Quixote 'Ipso-Facto' Martindale

1945
Under Western Skies

as    Mayor Dave Mayfield

1944
San Antonio Kid

as    Happy Jack

1944
Firebrands of Arizona

as    Sheriff Hoag

1943
Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground

as    Judge Higgins

1943
The Lone Star Trail

as    Mayor Cyrus Jenkins

1943
Bar 20

as    Tom

1943
Colt Comrades

as    Wildcat Willie

1942
Riding the Wind

as    Bert MacLeod

1942
Red River Robin Hood

as    Deputy Pete (as Earl Hodgins)

1941
Sierra Sue

as    Brandywine

1941
Criminals Within

as    Wallace

1940
The Sagebrush Family Trails West

as    'Doc' Sawyer

1939
Panama Lady

as    Foreman

1939
Almost a Gentleman

as    Sheriff Ira Willis

1938
Call The Mesquiteers

as    'Doctor' Algernon Irving

1938
The Purple Vigilantes

as    J. T. McAllister

1938
Partners of the Plains

as    Sheriff

1938
Lawless Valley

as    Sheriff Heck Hampton

1938
Pride of the West

as    Tom Martin

1937
Borderland

as    Major Stafford