Denver Pyle
Denver Dell Pyle was an American film and television actor and director. He was well known for a number of television roles from the 1960s through the 1980s, including his portrayal of Briscoe Darling 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 main 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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🎬 Movies
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
actor
1997
Maverick
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1994
Return to Mayberry
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1986
Return from Witch Mountain
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1978
Legend of the Northwest
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1978
Welcome to L.A.
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1976
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
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1976
Hawmps!
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1976
Winterhawk
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1975
Escape to Witch Mountain
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1975
The Legend of Hillbilly John
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1974
Cahill: United States Marshal
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1973
Hitched
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1973
Something Big
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1971
5 Card Stud
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1968
Bandolero!
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1968
Bonnie and Clyde
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1967
Welcome to Hard Times
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1967
Gunpoint
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1966
The Great Race
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1965
Shenandoah
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1965
The Rounders
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1965
Mail Order Bride
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1964
Geronimo
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1962
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
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1962
The Alamo
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1960
Cast a Long Shadow
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1959
The Horse Soldiers
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1959
China Doll
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1958
The Left Handed Gun
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1958
Jet Pilot
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1957
Domino Kid
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1957
The Lonely Man
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1957
Please Murder Me
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1956
Top Gun
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1955
To Hell and Back
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1955
Run for Cover
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1955
Rage at Dawn
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1955
The Yellow Mountain
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1954
The Command
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1954
Ride Clear of Diablo
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1954
The Maverick
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1952
Canyon Ambush
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1952
Fargo
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1952
Man from the Black Hills
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1952
Mutiny
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1952
Drums in the Deep South
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1951
The Old Frontier
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1950
Singing Guns
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1950
Captain China
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1950
The Big Wheel
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1949
Hellfire
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1949
Red Canyon
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1949
El Paso
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1949
The Man from Colorado
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1948
Train to Alcatraz
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1948
