Date of birth: 1893-10-05
Place of birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Earl Hodges, Earl Hodgin, Earl Hodgins, Earl Hudgins

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."

1958-01-21
Byron Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from the Eatondale Orphan Asylum, receives a ride into the rural

1935-07-19
John Wyatt is a government agent sent to smash a counterfeiting operation near the Mexican border. J

1942-10-01
Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.

1942-05-08
When Martin Knox, a friend of Scattergood's who owns a horse-breeding farm, is killed in a harness r

1941-02-21
Young Scattergood Baines arrives in the small New England town of Coldriver. Through some shrewd bus

1941-05-23
Small-town store owner Scattergood Baines helps a runaway boy find his father, who has escaped after

1937-06-05
A cowboy aids an orphaned girl whose cattle are being rustled by an outlaw gang.

1950-05-22
A charismatic gunfighter who is on the run takes refuge in a frontier cattle town and attempts to he

1943-05-10
Gildersleeve has jury duty.

1936-06-06
A card sharp steps in when a Mexican family's ranch is threatened by swindlers and cheats.

1937-10-10
A stagecoach line hires an agent to stop a string of robberies of gold shipments.

1942-05-08
A gang of crooks wrestles with the temptation to rob the bank that they now manage.

1946-09-29
A private detective and his assistant are hired to find a missing husband by the detective's former

1938-08-03
A spoiled boy sent to the country to grow-up. He has to deal with life, friends and crooks.

1951-12-16
There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solut

1948-03-19
One of Hoppy's Bar 20 ranch hands is tricked into participating in nefarious activities after being

1938-07-07
Caldwell and Nixon have their men rob the stage and then critcize the Sheriff for not catching the r

1940-01-26
U.S. Marshal Hopalong Cassidy is called when a town becomes overun with bad guys. Disguised as a mem

1935-03-15
A trio of former cattle rustlers try to go straight, but find that they can't shake off their reputa

1938-02-09
Working undercover, the Rangers are after Bull and his gang. Ted successfully joins Dr. Aikmans trav

1938-03-07
The Three Mesquiteers are forced to track down a train robbery ring after some of the gang hijack th

1953-10-27
Set in 1869, after the Civil War, Texas had not yet been readmitted to the Union and carpetbaggers,

1936-01-03
Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway

1946-05-26
A woman falls under the hypnotic spell of a resurrected madman.

1936-12-04
The narrator sets the scene for a warped version of the classic poem, and the hijinks when assistant

1945-04-15
A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a ch

1936-08-19
Oh, Susanna! is a 1936 American Western musical film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry

1935-10-06
A government agent goes undercover in a traveling medicine show to infiltrate a gang of counterfeite

1947-11-01
A World War II European orphan, Paul, has lost all faith in humanity. Brought to the United States b

1940-08-22
A phantom-like gunman is murdering the hands at the Circle T Ranch and the Range Busters are recruit

1937-09-01
Sinclair has a government lease on range land that is about to expire. George Ringold wants the land

1938-01-29
Autry and his buddies have a horse selling business which is threatened by a tractor company which c

1936-06-22
A wrongfully-imprisoned man becomes determined to find who was responsible for the death of a local

1936-05-11
A rodeo singer funds a little girl's operation with a show, on television.

1947-06-21
Based on and built around the west coast radio program, "The Hollywood Barn Dance", although no memb

1943-12-17
Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brut

1945-07-14
Escaping the law, Jim Parker arrives in a town that is controlled by Dalt Higgins and his crony judg

1937-08-09
Two vaudevillian comedians try to stage a show in a theatre that has a reputation for being being ha

1944-08-16
A geologist has found oil on the neighboring ranches and teams up with Ace who has his gang create a

1946-12-25
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return

1945-01-26
The Topeka Terror is a western film of 1945 directed by Howard Bretherton. The land-rush opening of

1949-01-25
Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye o

1942-07-14
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

1944-11-18
A man who has been framed on a murder charge is placed in the custody of a crooked U.S. marshal, who

1936-03-01
Tex Weaver is working under cover to bring in a gang of bank robbers. When he is killed, Tim Ross, a

1936-06-24
A man on his way to closing a million dollar deal has an accident and gets amnesia.

1949-02-10
Harry tries to entertain a family of rich hillbillies.

1948-12-09
Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and be

1944-06-30
As dancer Ginny Walker performs on stage, a veiled woman in the audience stands up, accuses Ginny of

1956-09-12
After he's continually harrassed and bullied by his town's citizens, the orphaned teenage son of a n

1941-06-27
A young soldier uncovers a ring of spies when he investigates his brother's mysterious murder.

1938-01-24
David Ross organizes the ranchers into a vigilante group to rid the town of outlaws. The plan succee

1944-03-31
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings

1937-06-21
An outlaw falsely accused of murder realizes the only way to clear himself is to become a lawman.

1937-08-07
In early spring of 1833, the smoldering resentment of American settlers in Texas against their oppre

1937-10-01
A government agent sets out to capture a gang of airmail bandits who use a death ray to blow planes

1937-06-29
Stony's brother George has been accused of murder and the Mesquiteers have returned to prove his inn

1962-02-01
Directed by Jean Yarbrough Ex-con Joseph Braden (Ron Hagerthy) has his car temporarily stolen by a p

1957-05-30
Gunnery Sergeant Jim Moore is one of the toughest Drill Instructors on Parris Island. But he's got a

1939-03-31
Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.

1947-02-15
The ranch of Red Ryder (Allan Lane) and his aunt, The Duchess (Martha Wentworth), is being used as t

1938-01-14
Lorna Drake has inherited a ranch. Hoppy teaches her a bit about ranching and handles Scar Lewis, th

1938-04-20
In his starring debut, Roy gets elected to Congress in order to bring water to the ranchers in his d

1938-03-04
Regan is passing off counterfeit money at rodeos betting on his man Denby. When Tex appears and wins

1938-12-09
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." H

1939-06-10
Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to creat

1955-12-23
In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for e

1946-02-28
Ex-convict Hank Rogers is searching for his brother Jim, a newspaperman, and becomes involved with a

1947-10-09
A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.

1938-10-28
A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist o

1946-10-09
The son of an Army friend is about the join an outlaw gang. Hoppy prevents this and brings the gang

1939-01-06
A racetrack melodrama, The Long Shot features Marsha Hunt and Gordon Jones as trainers of a thorough

1937-04-24
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prej

1937-02-26
Hoppy goes undercover as an outlaw (which permits him, for once, to drink and be mean to children) t

1937-07-04
Bob Adams, ace newsreel cameraman, is told by his boss, "Get the picture---we can't screen alibis."

1939-04-08
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a r

1939-09-15
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.

1939-07-28
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending crim

1935-11-22
A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actr

1944-12-01
The sheriff camps outside of town and tries to arrest Froggy and Sunset, but a gang of outlaws helps

1939-09-13
A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.

1942-02-27
It's the ranchers whose cattle are dying of thirst versus Henry Dodge whose dam holds all the water.

1939-04-21
Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kan

1941-09-30
If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune.

1955-04-10
In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelmin

1937-12-13
A cattle rancher comes to the aid of farmers by heading to NYC to stop the racketeers hijacking thei

1937-04-16
An evil deputy is using Indian half-breeds to rustle cattle. This causes trouble between the cattlem

1935-05-14
Flash Carson is after the Conroy ranch. Having killed Conroy, he is now after the heir Billie Conroy

1945-04-30
Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own co

1946-03-18
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of m

1960-07-07
Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The

1937-11-26
The U.S. Army needs more horses for the Spanish-American War. Hoppy must turn his Bar 20 cowhands in

1941-11-12
To fight a poisonous weed, ranchers are burning their land. Gene is the Inspector brought in and he

1940-01-12
Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita'

1934-06-30
A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.

1953-07-17
The famed outlaw is talked into saddling up for one more bank robbery.

1937-08-28
Porky invests his savings. Mayhem ensues.

1953-09-11
Outlaws plan a robbery to take place during a championship prizefight in Carson City, Nevada.

1962-04-13
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a sma

1935-11-02
A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.

1938-11-03
After doing time for a crime he didn't commit, a cowboy tries to find the men who framed him.

1940-01-17
The story concentrates on a travelling medicine show maintained by Bobby Clark and his relatives Min

1947-04-25
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by t

1937-03-28
There is a range war between the ranchers led by Tilden and the outlaw gang of Link Carson. Wanted o

1946-08-01
A cowboy sets out to break up a gang of rustlers.

1940-03-01
A lawman sets out to disrupt the operations of a crooked town boss.

1940-06-01
A cowboy arrives in a town, and is immediately mistaken for his twin brother who is wanted for murde

1940-11-28
Bill Ralston arrives in town planning to settle down but quickly gets caught up in the fight between

1940-09-29
The story opens as Stony returns to his home town, only to discover that his sheriff father has been

1940-12-13
A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.

1939-09-08
Buck Colins heads a group of local ranchers who are trying to prevent the railroad from completing i

1940-08-30
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both lov

1956-10-30
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to vio

1947-03-28
At the reading of his late cousin's will, California learns the estate will be divied among whoever

1943-03-12
Posing as a cattle buyer, Hoppy crosses over into Oklahoma where the Jordan brother's and their outl

1943-12-03
When Ranger Hoppy's falsely accused young ranger friend is killed while supposedly trying to escape

1956-07-12
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee

1937-12-01
Charles Starrett plays two-fisted frontiersman Dart Collins in this slick Columbia "B" western. Coll

1948-07-23
Finishing a trail drive, Hoppy and the boys head to town and immediately get caught up in the confli

1946-12-23
Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hus

1938-12-02
Trouble-prone Billy Peck and his gang descend on a traveling circus that has just hit town, and befo

1948-02-07
In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, e

1941-03-14
Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where sh

1948-05-28
A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before h

1940-05-17
Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her hu

1940-09-06
A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve d

1940-06-05
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by

1942-12-11
Dusty Gardner, and other Texas ranchers, are driving a herd of cattle to Abilene, Kansas along the C

1948-01-01
A young boy is struck by lightning, and discovers afterwards that he has the power of telepathy.

1946-08-09
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.

1946-06-28
Police Chief Jim Murphy, in a crime-ridden city, deputizes newspaper-reporter Sam Wire, to work as a

1942-02-19
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.

1934-01-26
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie

1935-09-07
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.

1947-05-04
Red Ryder battles an unscrupulous fur thief named Hunter for the right to trap beaver and otter on t

1943-05-20
Wrongfully arrested, Tim must escape and find the men who murdered his partner and stole the gold.

1943-08-06
Rancher Blaze Barker returns to Dead Falls after being framed by land-grabbers and spending two year

1942-01-02
This film was made by the U.S. government during World War II to show its young servicemen the resul

1942-11-01
An honest cowpoke (Tim Holt) comes to the rescue when the ranchers of Red River, AZ have their prope

1944-04-01
Lawyer Leland is using land rights to kick the ranchers off their land. When Wild Bill and Gabby arr

1943-02-05
In order to obtain a stage coach mail contract, a new road must be built. A gang of outlaws try to p

1943-06-18
Hoppy, California and Johnny partner up with brother and sister ranch owners, two of several who are

1946-01-18
Indian Agent Kip Lewis arrives in Gun Town where Buckskin Sawyer is having her payroll shipments rob

1947-07-01
Hoppy, California and Lucky take refuge from a storm inside a supposedly abandoned church outside a

1948-04-24
Also known as California Outpost, Old Los Angeles stars Bill Elliot in one of his expanded-budget Re

1942-08-17
A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.

1948-02-22
Oklahoma Badlands is a western film directed by Yakima Canutt in 1948. Oliver Budge is after the Raw

1942-10-23
A bandit who robs both Americans and Mexicans is causing each side of the border to blame the other.

1942-09-25
Hoping to increase its box-office allure by adopting the title of a popular song, Deep in the Heart

1942-11-14
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and h

1942-06-11
When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon sing

1949-01-22
It has been almost five years since the outlaws have stolen the army payroll from Lt. Raymond D'Arcy

1943-04-02
When three Texas Rangers try to investigate kidnapped Mexicans being used as forced labor in the min

1943-03-10
A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for

1943-10-01
Stagecoach robbers take the money Hoppy was going to use to buy cattle so Hoppy, California and Lin

1943-04-09
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russel

1943-11-05
Before he was killed by Mark Foster's men, Bud Lawton willed part ownership in his ranch to Hoppy an

1944-10-24
A movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble over

1954-07-30
1849 California and the Gold Boom. Marshal Sam Nelson goes under cover to find out the identity of a

1942-11-20
An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.

1942-06-12
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy miss

1942-01-15
As the elderly man visiting his wife's grave remembers how a renewed faith in Christianity help a sh

1949-02-02
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "Fren

1937-09-11
Porky decides to start a garden. Mayhem ensues.

1949-02-13
The first of Monogram's "Father" series was Henry, the Rainmaker, assembled in a fast seven days. He

1939-05-12
A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tu

1943-07-16
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's

1943-10-08
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie.

1947-05-15
Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by P

1936-08-01
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.

1950-09-01
Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony Wells,

1950-11-16
A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the dea

1941-11-27
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to

1945-06-22
A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle

1936-02-29
Bolton has organized a feud between the Rork's and the O'Neil's. He has rustled cattle and killed a

1946-11-15
Hoppy finds a wounded girl and later finds Judge Morton who claims the girl is his daughter and he i

1946-08-15
When an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for a ne

1937-02-28
Gene and Frog arrive with a herd of horses for Gene'e brother, a diamond prospector whose work has a

1945-01-19
An Arizona teacher (Noah Beery Jr.) saves a vaudeville star (Martha O'Driscoll) and her troupe from

1942-03-19
Lum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge's Jot-'em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, b

1948-02-27
The brother of a nuclear scientist dies but is reincarnated as a dog so he can return to Earth to pr

1949-05-19
A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the

1946-09-24
Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio o

1941-03-28
A vaudeville act inherits an old, beat-up building and decides to try to turn it into a hip new nigh

1934-04-10
An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.

1951-11-15
Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on t

1936-10-26
The three Mesquiteers try to recover the gold stolen by a gang in its effort to ruin the banker/mayo

1935-07-20
Edited version of Paradise Canyon. An undercover agent for the government is sent to round up a gan

1951-10-05
A Texas carnival showmen team is mistaken for a cattle baron and his sister.