Earl 'Hap' Hogan

born: 09 February 1880 Zanesville, Ohio, United States of America

died: 14 October 1944 Calabasas, Los Angeles, California, United States of America (heart attack, age 64)

American actor. According to his 1944 obituary, he "had been in the theatrical profession for 30 years." For a reported 20 years, he frequently worked in tandem with fellow actor/extra Fred Behrle; they were known as "the twins," and if one of them were cast in a certain picture, the other would invariably be as well. When Behrle died in 1941, Hogan served as the informant on Behrle's death certificate. Over three years later, Hogan suffered a fatal heart attack while filming a picture on the old Warner Bros. Ranch in Calabasas. Eerily, Behrle had suffered a similar fate when he passed: being stricken by his own heart attack while filming a picture on a studio ranch -- in his case at the Columbia Ranch in Burbank which, even more eerily, now serves as the current Warner Bros. Ranch.

Real name: Earl Richard Traynor Height: 5'7½"

Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography.

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1931 Pardon Us Prisoner 1935 Southern Exposure Juryman #1 1936 On The Wrong Trek Hobo REGISTRATION CARD (click any image to enlarge) Acknowledgements: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZVJ-VLR (WWI draft reg. card) Earl Hap Hogan, "U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942" (Ancestry.com) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPSB-V74S (death certificate) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/683811747/ (Citizen-News [Hollywood, CA], 21 May 1941) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/683811826/ (Citizen-News [Hollywood, CA], 22 May 1941) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/380786651/ (Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct 1944) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/607711403/ (Topanga Journal and Malibu Monitor, 20 Oct 1944) Jesse Brisson (bio notes and research; identification in Pardon Us, Southern Exposure, On The Wrong Trek) Jim Jarvis (registration card) This page was last updated on: 10 April 2023