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