Hank Patterson was an American actor and musician. He is most known for playing stableman Hank Miller on Gunsmoke and Fred Ziffel on Petticoat Junction and Green Acres.
Patterson was born in Springville, Alabama, one of seven children of Green Davis Patterson, an insurance agent, and Mary Isabell Mollie Newton Patterson. By the 1890s his family had moved to Taylor, Texas, where he spent most of his boyhood. He attended school through eighth grade. In 1917 he registered for a World War I draft card in Lubbock County, Texas.
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