Denver Pyle
Denver Dell Pyle (May 11, 1920 – December 25, 1997) was an American film and television actor and director. He was well known for a number of TV roles from the 1960s through the 1980s, including his portrayal of Briscoe Darling Jr. in several episodes of The Andy Griffith Show, as Jesse Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard from 1979 to 1985, as Mad Jack in the NBC television series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, and as the titular character's father, Buck Webb, in CBS's The Doris Day Show. In many of his roles, he portrayed either authority figures, or gruff, demanding father figures, often as comic relief.Perhaps his most memorable film role was that of Texas Ranger Frank Hamer in the movie Bonnie and Clyde (1967), as the lawman who relentlessly chased down and finally killed the notorious duo in an ambush.
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The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
Father and Scout
Maverick
Delta Fever
Legend of the Wild
Legend of the Northwest
Welcome to L.A.
The Last of Mrs. Lincoln
Hawmps!
Guardian of the Wilderness
Death Among Friends
Escape to Witch Mountain
Winterhawk
The Adventures of Frontier Fremont
Murder or Mercy
Cahill: United States Marshal
Hitched
The Legend of Hillbilly John
Something Big
5 Card Stud
Bandolero!
Bonnie and Clyde
Tammy and the Millionaire
Welcome to Hard Times
Incident at Phantom Hill
Gunpoint
Mara of the Wilderness
Shenandoah
The Rounders
Black Like Me
Mail Order Bride
Terrified
Geronimo
Cast a Long Shadow
The Horse Soldiers
King of the Wild Stallions
The Party Crashers
Fort Massacre
The Left Handed Gun
China Doll
Jet Pilot
The Lonely Man- DEDestination 60,000
Gun Duel in Durango
7th Cavalry
Yaqui Drums
The Naked Hills
Please Murder Me
I Killed Wild Bill Hickok
Top Gun
To Hell and Back
Rage at Dawn
The Yellow Mountain
The Command
Ride Clear of Diablo
Topeka
Rebel City
Gunsmoke
Texas Bad Man
The Maverick
Canyon Ambush
Man from the Black Hills
Desert Passage
Fargo
Hills of Utah
Million Dollar Pursuit
Rough Riders of Durango
The Old Frontier
Customs Agent
Dynamite Pass
Federal Agent at Large
The Flying Saucer
Flame of Youth
Streets of San Francisco
The Man from Colorado
Marshal of Amarillo