Earle Hodgins
Acting
Born October 5, 1893, 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."
Filmography
- 1962Saintly Sinners — Uncle Clete
- 1962The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance — Clute Dumfries (uncredited)
- Mister Ed
- Guestward, Ho!
- 1960Inherit the Wind — Dr. Britton's Tonic Spieler with Chimp (uncredited)
- The Westerner — Saul
- Law of the Plainsman — Bartender
- Mr. Lucky
- Rawhide
- The Twilight Zone — Agee
- Wichita Town
- The Donna Reed Show
- 1958The Missouri Traveler — Old Sharecropper
- The Rifleman
- Wanted: Dead or Alive — Stableman
- Harbor Command
- Have Gun, Will Travel — Old Timer
- Maverick — Johnson, Ernest Plunkett
- Sugarfoot — The Old Man
- 1957The D.I. — Guard
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre — Pat Duncan
- 1956Friendly Persuasion — Shooting Gallery Operator (uncredited)
- 1956The Fastest Gun Alive — Medicine Man (uncredited)
- 1956The Young Guns — Rancho
- 1955East of Eden — Shooting Gallery Concessionaire (uncredited)
- Gunsmoke — Uncle Oliver, Tubby, Dobie, Judge
- 1955Guys and Dolls — Pitchman (uncredited)
- Lassie
- 1954The Forty-Niners — Hotel Clerk
- City Detective
- 1953City of Bad Men — Cooch
- 1953The Great Jesse James Raid — 'Soapy' Smith
- 1953Thunder Over the Plains — Auctioneer (uncredited)
- Hopalong Cassidy
- Boston Blackie
- 1951Callaway Went Thataway — Somerset Club Doorman (untitled)
- Dragnet
- 1951Texas Carnival — Frightened Cab Passenger (uncredited)
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
- 1951Westward the Women — Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
- 1950Bunco Squad — Professor Markett (uncredited)
- The Cisco Kid — Gramps - the Organ Player, Idaho, Circle J Hand
- 1950The Savage Horde — Buck Yallop
- 1950Where Danger Lives — Postville Cowboy (uncredited)
- 1949Canadian Pacific — Sandy McNair (uncredited)
- 1949Henry, the Rainmaker — Mr. Peabody
- 1949Radio Riot
- 1949Sheriff of Wichita — Jess Jenkins
- 1949Shockproof — Race Caller (Uncredited)
- 1949Slightly French — Carnival Barker (uncredited)
- The Lone Ranger — Storekeeper
- 1948Borrowed Trouble — Sheriff
- 1948Hazard — Doctor (uncredited)
- 1948If You Knew Susie — Auctioneer (uncredited)
- 1948Let's Live Again — Novelty Salesman
- 1948Oklahoma Badlands — Jonathan Walpole
- 1948Old Los Angeles — Horatius P. Gassoway
- 1948Silent Conflict — Doc Richards
- 1948The Main Street Kid — Judge Belin
- 1948Whispering Smith
- 1947Desire Me — Festival Barker (uncredited)
- 1947Fun on a Weekend — Heckler (uncredited)
- 1947Hollywood Barn Dance — Francis D. Cartwright
- 1947Key Witness — Racetrack Security Guard (uncredited)
- 1947Oregon Trail Scouts — The Judge
- 1947The Marauders — County Clerk Tom
- 1947The Return of Rin Tin Tin — Joe - The Dog Handler
- 1947The Sea of Grass — Brewton Ranch Hand (uncredited)
- 1947Unexpected Guest — Joshua Colter
- 1947Vigilantes of Boomtown — Governor
- 1946Accomplice — Marshal Jeff Bailey
- 1946Crime of the Century — Eddie
- 1946Deadline at Dawn — Barker (uncredited)
- 1946Down Missouri Way — Press Agent
- 1946Fool's Gold — Sandler
- 1946Gallant Journey — Mahoney's Barker (uncredited)
- 1946Gun Town — Sheriff
- 1946Rustler's Round-up — Sheriff Fin Elder
- 1946That Brennan Girl — Street Car Conductor (uncredited)
- 1946The Best Years of Our Lives — Diner Attendant at Lucia's (uncredited)
- 1946The Devil's Playground — Deputy Dan'l
- 1946The Last Crooked Mile — Carnival Barker
- 1946Traffic in Crime — Bartender
- 1946Valley of the Zombies — Fred Mays (Fred Murks)
- 1945Bedside Manner — Grover Cleveland 'Chatty' Perkins (uncredited)
- 1945Crime, Inc. — Carnival Barker (uncredited)
- 1945Oregon Trail — Judge J. Frothingham Smythe
- 1945The Southerner — Wedding Guest (uncredited)
- 1945The Topeka Terror — Don Quixote 'Ipso-Facto' Martindale
- 1945Under Western Skies — Mayor Dave Mayfield
- 1944Alaska — Tobin
- 1944Firebrands of Arizona — Sheriff Hoag
- 1944Hidden Valley Outlaws — Eddie Purcell
- 1944It Happened Tomorrow
- 1944Mystery of the Riverboat — Jean Duval [Ch. 5]
- 1944San Antonio Kid — Happy Jack
- 1944Sensations of 1945 — Police Detective (uncredited)
- 1943Bar 20 — Tom
- 1943Batman — Joe
- 1943Border Patrol — Cook
- 1943Calling Dr. Death
- 1943Colt Comrades — Wildcat Willie
- 1943Crazy House — Barker
- 1943False Colors — Lawyer Jay Griffin
- 1943Gildersleeve's Bad Day — Reporter Earle (uncredited)
- 1943Hoppy Serves a Writ — Jim Belman
- 1943Idaho — Bartender
- 1943King of the Cowboys — Ike
- 1943Riders of the Deadline — Sourdough
- 1943Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground — Judge Higgins
- 1943The Avenging Rider — Deputy Joe
- 1943The Lone Star Trail — Mayor Cyrus Jenkins
- 1942Call of the Canyon — Pie-Eating Contest Referee (uncredited)
- 1942Deep in the Heart of Texas — Judge Peabody
- 1942Fall In — Cigar Store Customer
- 1942Inside the Law — Police Chief
- 1942My Favorite Spy — 2nd Speaker in Park
- 1942Red River Robin Hood — Deputy Pete
- 1942Riding the Wind — Bert MacLeod
- 1942Scattergood Rides High — Auctioneer (uncredited)
- 1942Scattergood Survives a Murder — Coroner
- 1942Shut My Big Mouth — Stagecoach Guard
- 1942Silver Queen — Desk Clerk (uncredited)
- 1942The Bashful Bachelor — Joseph Abernathy
- 1942The Old Chisholm Trail — Chief Hopping Crow
- 1942The Power of God — Tom York
- 1942The Pride of the Yankees — Bottle Game Operator (uncredited)
- 1942The Spoilers — Miner (uncredited)
- 1942USS VD: Ship of Shame — Show Barker (uncredited)
- 1942Undercover Man — Sheriff Blackton
- 1941A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob — Sylvester P. Wurple (uncredited)
- 1941Criminals Within — Wallace
- 1941Keep 'Em Flying — Tunnel of Love Attendant (uncredited)
- 1941Las Vegas Nights — Barker at Fickle Fanny
- 1941Sailors on Leave — Con Man (uncredited)
- 1941Scattergood Baines — Jim Barton
- 1941Scattergood Pulls the Strings — Deputy
- 1941Sierra Sue — Brandywine
- 1940Bad Man from Red Butte — Hiram T. Cochran
- 1940Boom Town — Rodeo Barker (uncredited)
- 1940Boss of Bullion City — Mike Calhoun
- 1940Florian — Concession Owner
- 1940Law and Order — Sheriff Fin Elder
- 1940Men Against the Sky — Barker
- 1940Mexican Spitfire — H. Sharpe - Divorce Lawyer
- 1940My Favorite Wife — Court Clerk Beside Judge Bryson (uncredited)
- 1940Santa Fe Marshal — Rufus Tate
- 1940The Range Busters — Uncle Rolf
- 1940The Sagebrush Family Trails West — 'Doc' Sawyer
- 1940Trail of the Vigilantes — Medicine Man
- 1940Under Texas Skies — Town Barber
- 1939Almost a Gentleman — Sheriff Ira Willis
- 1939Daredevils of the Red Circle — Hinkle--Barker
- 1939Dodge City — Spieler (uncredited)
- 1939Fixer Dugan — Sideshow Barker
- 1939Panama Lady — Foreman
- 1939Porky and Teabiscuit — Auctioneer (voice) (uncredited)
- 1939Range War — Deputy
- 1939The Day the Bookies Wept — Horse Auctioneer (uncredited)
- 1939The Long Shot — Collins
- 1939The Spellbinder — First Marriage License Clerk (uncredited)
- 1939Thunder Afloat — Fisherman (uncredited)
- 1938Barefoot Boy — Sheriff
- 1938Call The Mesquiteers — 'Doctor' Algernon Irving
- 1938Frontier Town — Frontier City Rodeo Announcer
- 1938Lawless Valley — Sheriff Heck Hampton
- 1938Next Time I Marry — Hitchhiking Preacher (uncredited)
- 1938Partners of the Plains — Sheriff
- 1938Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus — Circus Barker (uncredited)
- 1938Pride of the West — Tom Martin
- 1938Tarnished Angel — Revivalist
- 1938The Old Barn Dance — Terwilliger
- 1938The Purple Vigilantes — J. T. McAllister
- 1938The Rangers' Round-Up — Doc Aikman
- 1938Under Western Stars — Radio Announcer
- 1937A Lawman Is Born — Sheriff Rock Lance
- 1937All Over Town — Barker
- 1937Borderland — Major Stafford
- 1937Get Rich Quick Porky — Oil Land Hustler (voice) (uncredited)
- 1937Headin' East — Fred W. Calhoun
- 1937Heroes of the Alamo — Stephen F. Austin
- 1937Hills of Old Wyoming — Thompson
- 1937I Cover the War! — Blake
- 1937Law for Tombstone — Jack Dunn
- 1937Mountain Justice — Wheel of Life Barker
- 1937Outlaws of the Prairie — Neepah
- 1937Porky's Garden — Huckster (voice)
- 1937Range Defenders — Sheriff Honest Dan Gray
- 1937Roaring Six Guns — Sundown
- 1937Round-Up Time in Texas — Barkey McCusky
- 1937Sky Racket — Henchman Spike Hodgins
- 1937Smoke Tree Range — Sheriff Day (as Earl Hodgins)
- 1937Texas Trail — Major Jordan
- 1937Trail of Vengeance — Buck Andrews
- 1936Aces and Eights — Marshal
- 1936Border Caballero — Doc Shaw
- 1936Crash Donovan — Patrolman (uncredited)
- 1936Ghost Town Gold — Fight Referee (uncredited)
- 1936Guns and Guitars — Prof. Parker (as Earl Hodgins)
- 1936King of Burlesque — Burlesque Barker (uncredited)
- 1936Oh, Susanna — Professor Ezekial Daniels
- 1936Ridin' On — Henchman (uncredited)
- 1936The Singing Cowboy — Henry Blake
- 1936The Village Smithy — Narrator (voice)
- 1936The Walking Dead
- 1936Ticket to Paradise — Cab Starter
- 1935Cowboy G-Man — Doc Carter
- 1935Guns Along The Trail — Dr. Carter
- 1935Little Big Shot — Tour Barker
- 1935Moonlight on the Prairie — Doc Cody
- 1935Paradise Canyon — Doc Carter
- 1935The Cyclone Ranger — Pancho Gonzales
- 1935The Perfect Gentleman — Music Hall Stage Manager (uncredited)
- 1935The Texas Rambler — 'Flash' Carson
- 1934The Circus Clown — Circus Barker
- 1934Two Alone — Carnival Barker (uncredited)
- 1934Whirlpool — Carnival Barker (uncredited)