- By the time Patterson was doing Green Acres (1965) he was in his late 70s and almost completely deaf, but the producers loved his portrayal so much they worked around his hearing impairment by having the dialogue coach lying on the floor, out-of-shot, tapping Hank's leg with a yardstick as a cue to speak his line.
- Great-uncle of Téa Leoni
- He played the same character (Fred Ziffel) in three different series: The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Petticoat Junction (1963) and Green Acres (1965).
- He appeared in two 1950s science-fiction films that involved giant spiders: Tarantula (1955) and The Spider (1958).
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