Earle Hodgins

DOB: 1893-10-05

DOD: 1964-04-14

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."

Starred In

1935
Movie

Paradise Canyon

1941
Movie

Scattergood Baines

1937
Movie

Smoke Tree Range

1950
Movie

The Savage Horde

1936
Movie

Aces and Eights

1937
Movie

Law for Tombstone

1942
Movie

Inside the Law

1946
Movie

Accomplice

1938
Movie

Barefoot Boy

1951
Movie

Westward the Women

1948
Movie

Silent Conflict

1938
Movie

Pride of the West

1940
Movie

Santa Fe Marshal

1935
Movie

The Cyclone Ranger

1936
Movie

King of Burlesque

1936
Movie

The Village Smithy

1945
Movie

Crime, Inc.

1936
Movie

Oh, Susanna

1940
Movie

The Range Busters

1937
Movie

Roaring Six Guns

1938
Movie

The Old Barn Dance

1936
Movie

Guns and Guitars

1936
Movie

The Singing Cowboy

1943
Movie

Calling Dr. Death

1945
Movie

Oregon Trail

1937
Movie

All Over Town

1944
Movie

San Antonio Kid

1945
Movie

The Topeka Terror

1949
Movie

Shockproof

1944
Movie

Alaska

1936
Movie

Border Caballero

1936
Movie

Ticket to Paradise

1949
Movie

Radio Riot

1948
Movie

Whispering Smith

1956
Movie

The Young Guns

1944
Movie

Sensations of 1945

1941
Movie

Criminals Within

1937
Movie

A Lawman Is Born

1937
Movie

Sky Racket

1937
Movie

Range Defenders

1962
Movie

Saintly Sinners

1957
Movie

The D.I.

1939
Movie

Almost a Gentleman

1938
Movie

Frontier Town

1938
Movie

Next Time I Marry

1955
Movie

Guys and Dolls

1947
Movie

Key Witness

1938
Movie

Tarnished Angel

1946
Movie

Fool's Gold

1939
Movie

The Long Shot

1937
Movie

Mountain Justice

1937
Movie

Borderland

1937
Movie

I Cover the War!

1939
Movie

Dodge City

1939
Movie

Thunder Afloat

1939
Movie

The Spellbinder

1942
Movie

Riding the Wind

1939
Movie

Fixer Dugan

1941
Movie

Sailors on Leave

1955
Movie

East of Eden

1937
Movie

Headin' East

1935
Movie

The Texas Rambler

1945
Movie

The Southerner

1946
Movie

Deadline at Dawn

1960
Movie

Inherit the Wind

1937
Movie

Texas Trail

1941
Movie

Sierra Sue

1940
Movie

Mexican Spitfire

1934
Movie

The Circus Clown

1953
Movie

City of Bad Men

1938
Movie

Lawless Valley

1947
Movie

The Sea of Grass

1937
Movie

Trail of Vengeance

1946
Movie

Rustler's Round-up

1940
Movie

Law and Order

1940
Movie

Under Texas Skies

1939
Movie

Range War

1940
Movie

Boom Town

1947
Movie

Unexpected Guest

1948
Movie

Borrowed Trouble

1946
Movie

That Brennan Girl

1948
Movie

If You Knew Susie

1948
Movie

Hazard

1940
Movie

My Favorite Wife

1940
Movie

Florian

1946
Movie

Traffic in Crime

1942
Movie

Shut My Big Mouth

1934
Movie

Two Alone

1935
Movie

Little Big Shot

1943
Movie

The Avenging Rider

1943
Movie

Colt Comrades

1946
Movie

Gun Town

1947
Movie

The Marauders

1948
Movie

Old Los Angeles

1942
Movie

Call of the Canyon

1948
Movie

Oklahoma Badlands

1942
Movie

Undercover Man

1942
Movie

Silver Queen

1942
Movie

The Spoilers

1949
Movie

Sheriff of Wichita

1943
Movie

Border Patrol

1943
Movie

Bar 20

1943
Movie

Idaho

1943
Movie

False Colors

1954
Movie

The Forty-Niners

1942
Movie

Fall In

1942
Movie

My Favorite Spy

1942
Movie

The Power of God

1949
Movie

Slightly French

1937
Movie

Porky's Garden

1939
Movie

Panama Lady

1943
Movie

Batman

1943
Movie

Crazy House

1947
Movie

Fun on a Weekend

1936
Movie

Crash Donovan

1950
Movie

Bunco Squad

1950
Movie

Where Danger Lives

1941
Movie

Keep 'Em Flying

1936
Movie

Ridin' On

1946
Movie

Down Missouri Way

1948
Movie

Let's Live Again

1949
Movie

Canadian Pacific

1946
Movie

Gallant Journey

1941
Movie

Las Vegas Nights

1934
Movie

Whirlpool

1936
Movie

Ghost Town Gold

1961
Tv

Mister Ed

1957
Tv

Maverick

1959
Tv

Mr. Lucky

1951
Tv

Dragnet

1955
Tv

Gunsmoke

1954
Tv

Lassie

1959
Tv

Rawhide

1950
Tv

The Cisco Kid

1950
Tv

The Cisco Kid

1958
Tv

The Rifleman

1957
Tv

Sugarfoot

1959
Tv

Wichita Town

1957
Tv

Maverick

1955
Tv

Gunsmoke

1955
Tv

Gunsmoke

1955
Tv

Gunsmoke

1960
Tv

The Westerner