The Bad Guys!

Here are some photos and/or movie posters of some of the actors who played the bad guys, those people you've seen hundreds of times, but yet, don't remember their names.
More will be added as I get information on them.

Glenn Strange 1899 - 1973

You may of known him as the 'bartender' on Gunsmoke.
Glenn Strange was born in Weed, New Mexico, on August 16, 1899, but was raised in Cross Cut, Texas. He learned to play fiddle and guitar by ear and used to play for local dances.
In the late 1920s, Strange and his cousin, Taylor Curtis 'Cactus Mack' McPeters, joined a group of singing cowboys called the 'Arizona Wranglers'. They worked on tour and on radio all around the country. The group ended up in Hollywood and from there Strange and Cactus Mack began working in pictures.
Glenn Strange was one of the most recognized of the B western baddies. But he was also a talented songwriter and singer
In the late 1930s, Strange briefly played the sidekick to melodious Dick Foran in his westerns. One of his meatiest roles was as a baddie in Universal's 15 chapter RIDERS OF DEATH VALLEY 1941.
Strange also played in several of the "Hoppy" series. One of the "Hoppy" movies he was in, was Three Men From Texas, he played the the 2nd top baddie, under Stephen Morris.
As the B western faded, Strange migrated to TV work. He was Butch Cavendish, the outlaw that bushwhacks the Texas Rangers in the opening three-parter of the LONE RANGER TV show. Later, he portrayed Sam the barkeep at the Long Branch saloon on TV's GUNSMOKE from 1962 until shortly before his death from lung cancer in 1973.
Strange appeared in about 230 films, which included almost 200 westerns and a half dozen serials.

Morris Ankrum 'Stephen Morris' 1897 - 1964

Real name: Morris Nussbaum
Morris Nussbaum was born in Danville, Illinois.
Ankrum graduated from the University of Southern California with a law degree, then went on to become an associate professor in economics at the University of California at Berkeley. At UC-Berkeley, he founded, or was heavily involved in the college theatre, and eventually he became a drama teacher and director at the Pasadena Playhouse. His "students" included Robert Preston and Raymond Burr.
He signed a contract at Paramount in the mid 1930s, changed to a screen name of 'Stephen Morris', and became the antagonist in many of the Hopalong Cassidy westerns. Around 1939 or 1940, he changed his screen name to 'Morris Ankrum' which is the moniker that is recalled by most film fans. He seemed to exit western roles in the 1940s and begin portraying various characters such as ministers, fathers, businessman ... as well as villains.
He was the lead villian in the Hopalong Cassidy films, but had several roles as good guys in the 1950s, such characterizations in low budget sci-fi films, where he always seemed to wear a military uniform examples: ROCKETSHIP X-M, INVADERS FROM MARS, EARTH VS THE FLYING SAUCERS, more. He was also one of the 'judges' on the PERRY MASON TV show that starred Raymond Burr, and he was working on that series at the time of his death in 1964.
One of his most reknown pole was in THE BANDIT TRAIL RKO, 1941. Ankrum portrays bad guy 'Red' Haggerty, who reforms at the end and is killed while helping his relative Steve Haggerty Tim Holt win a gunfight against Roy Barcroft and gang.

Earle Hodgins sometimes spelled Earl Hodgins 1893-1964

Hodgins play several roles in the Hoppy movies, one of them was a badie, a Medicine Show Doctor who gives 'Lucky' some strange tea and gets 'Lucky' to help him steal some gold from 'Hoppy' in, the movie Slilent Conflict.
Hodgins film career began in the mid 1930s, and somehow, somewhere, he became typecast as a machine gun talking carnival barker, medicine show huckster, snake oil salesman, auctioneer, etc., and he played that role in dozens of films and TV shows. He worked at B westerns at Republic, Paramount, and other companies, in films starring the likes of William Boyd, Gene Autry, Allan Lane and Sunset Carson. He was frequently employed by Republic Pictures, and his film credits at that studio number about 55 from 1936-1950, most all of which are B westerns.
Hodgins did have other roles where he wasn't required to demonstrate his rapid fire verbal skills.
In the 1950s, he appeared in TVers such as THE CISCO KID, THE RANGE RIDER, WILD BILL HICKOK, GUNSMOKE, RAWHIDE, more.