Denver Pyle

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Denver Dell Pyle (May 11, 1920 – December 25, 1997) was an American film and television actor. He was known for portraying Briscoe Darling Jr. in several episodes of The Andy Griffith Show, and playing Jesse Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard from 1979-85. Pyle was born in Bethune, Colorado on May 11, 1920 to farmer Ben H. Pyle and his wife Maude; His brother, Willis, was an animator known for his work with Walt Disney Animation Studios and UPA. After graduating from high school, Pyle briefly attended Colorado State University, but dropped out to enter show business, moving to Los Angeles in 1940. He worked as a drummer and band member until the United States entered World War II, when he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. Pyle was wounded in action in the Battle of Guadalcanal and received a medical discharge in 1942. Near the end of the war, he served in the United States Merchant Marine. In 1955, Pyle married Marilee Carpenter, a production assistant at 20th Century Fox. They had sons David and Tony. Marilee and Denver divorced in 1970. In 1983, Pyle married Tippie Johnston. That union lasted until his death. Pyle died of lung cancer on Christmas 1997. Memorial services were held January 6, 1998, at First Baptist Church in Waxahachie, Texas. He is buried in an unmarked grave at the Forreston Cemetery in Forreston, Texas. His remains are interred beside those of his second wife's parents, J.T. Johnston and Erin Birch Johnston. CLR

Known For: Acting

Born: Bethune, Colorado, USA, 1920-05-11

Died: 1997-12-25

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1947	The Guilt of Janet Ames	Man in Opening Scene (uncredited)	57
2	1947	Devil Ship	Carl	60
3	1947	Where the North Begins	Jim Rockwell	60
4	1948	Train to Alcatraz	Hutch Hutchins	60
5	1948	Marshal of Amarillo	The Night Clerk	0
6	1948	The Man from Colorado	Easy Jarrett	67
7	1948	The Man from Colorado	Easy Jarrett (uncredited)	67
8	1949	El Paso	Vigilante (uncredited)	57
9	1949	Streets of San Francisco	Ed Quinn	0
10	1949	Red Canyon	Hutch	50
11	1949	Hellfire	Rex	58
12	1949	Rim of the Canyon	Cash Collins (uncredited)	44
13	1949	Too Late for Tears	Young Man at Union Station (uncredited)	68
14	1949	Flame of Youth	Lytz	0
15	1949	The Big Wheel	Track Intern	52
16	1950	The Flying Saucer	Turner	36
17	1950	Captain China	Steve	50
18	1950	Singing Guns	Richards Henchman	58
19	1950	Federal Agent at Large	'Jumpy' Jordan	48
20	1950	Dynamite Pass	Henchman	59
21	1950	Customs Agent	Al	0
22	1950	The Old Frontier	Henchman George	0
23	1951	Rough Riders of Durango	Henchman Lacey	0
24	1951	Million Dollar Pursuit	Nick Algren	58
25	1951	Drums in the Deep South	Union Soldier Breaking Window (uncredited)	54
26	1951	Hills of Utah	Bowie French	0
27	1952	Mutiny	Gunner / Mutineer (uncredited)	48
28	1952	Oklahoma Annie	Skip	80
29	1952	Man from the Black Hills	Glenn Hartley	0
30	1952	Desert Passage	Allen	42
31	1952	Fargo	Carey	65
32	1952	Canyon Ambush	Tom Carlton-Replaced (credit only)	50
33	1952	The Maverick	Bud Karnes	0
34	1953	Fort Vengeance	Rider Warning About Wagon Train (uncredited)	62
35	1953	A Perilous Journey	Bartender	40
36	1953	Gunsmoke	Greasy (uncredited)	64
37	1953	Rebel City	Greeley	50
38	1953	Goldtown Ghost Riders	Bernie Malloy (uncredited)	50
39	1953	Column South	Confederate Spy in Yankee Uniform (uncredited)	60
40	1953	The Lone Hand	Regulator (uncredited)	52
41	1953	Topeka	Jonas Bailey	50
42	1953	Vigilante Terror	Henchman Sperry	50
43	1953	Texas Bad Man	Tench	0
44	1954	Ride Clear of Diablo	Reverend Moorehead	58
45	1954	The Command	Infantryman (uncredited)	62
46	1954	The Boy from Oklahoma	Bagley	52
47	1954	Johnny Guitar	Posseman (uncredited)	74
48	1954	Drum Beat	Fairchild (uncredited)	60
49	1954	The Yellow Mountain	(uncredited)	51
50	1955	Ten Wanted Men		58
51	1955	Rage at Dawn	Clint Reno	61
52	1955	Run for Cover	Harvey (uncredited)	66
53	1955	To Hell and Back	Thompson	66
54	1955	Top Gun	Hank Spencer (uncredited)	59
55	1956	Please Murder Me	Det. Lt. Bradley	60
56	1956	I Killed Wild Bill Hickok	Jim Bailey	43
57	1956	The Naked Hills	Bert Killian / Narrator	46
58	1956	Yaqui Drums	Lefty Barr	0
59	1956	7th Cavalry	Dixon	57
60	1957	Gun Duel In Durango	Ranger Captain	54
61	1957	Destination 60,000	Mickey Hill	0
62	1957	The Lonely Man	Brad, Red Bluff Sheriff	61
63	1957	Domino Kid	Bill Dragger	57
64	1957	Jet Pilot	Mr. Simpson	54
65	1958	The Left Handed Gun	Ollinger	61
66	1958	Fort Massacre	Collins	60
67	1958	China Doll	Col. Wiley	68
68	1958	Bitter Heritage	Sam Wheeler	0
69	1958	The Party Crashers	Mr. Bickford	47
70	1959	Good Day for a Hanging	Deputy Ed Moore	62
71	1959	King of the Wild Stallions	MacGuire's Henchman	60
72	1959	The Horse Soldiers	Jackie Jo	69
73	1959	Cast a Long Shadow	Preacher Harrison	64
74	1960	Home from the Hill	Mr. Bradley	68
75	1960	The Alamo	Thimblerig (the Gambler)	71
76	1962	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	Amos Carruthers	78
77	1962	Geronimo	Senator Conrad	54
78	1963	Terrified	Sheriff Dixon	30
79	1964	Black Like Me	Man in pick-up truck	59
80	1964	Mail Order Bride	Preacher Pope	66
81	1964	Cheyenne Autumn	Sen. Henry (uncredited)	67
82	1965	The Rounders	Bull	56
83	1965	Shenandoah	Pastor Bjoerling	69
84	1965	The Great Race	Sheriff	71
85	1965	Mara of the Wilderness	Kelly	20
86	1966	Gunpoint	Cap	60
87	1966	Incident at Phantom Hill	1st Hunter	61
88	1967	Welcome to Hard Times	Alfie - Stage Driver	50
89	1967	Tammy and the Millionaire	Grandpa Mordecai Tarleton	50
90	1967	Bonnie and Clyde	Frank Hamer	75
91	1968	Bandolero!	Muncie Carter	65
92	1968	5 Card Stud	Sig Evers	62
93	1971	Mean Justice	Tom Rawling	70
94	1971	Hitched	Ben Barnstable	60
95	1971	Something Big	Junior Frisbee	52
96	1973	Cahill: United States Marshal	Denver	61
97	1974	Hog Wild	Dr. Larson	0
98	1974	The Legend of Hillbilly John	Grandpappy John	53
99	1974	Murder or Mercy	Amos Champion	0
100	1975	Escape to Witch Mountain	Uncle Bene	64
101	1975	The Boy Who Talked to Badgers	Ben as an Adult	68
102	1975	Winterhawk	Arkansas	66
103	1976	The Adventures of Frontier Fremont	Old mountain man	0
104	1976	Hawmps!	Col. Seymour Hawkins	43
105	1976	Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson	The Indian Agent (McLaughlin)	54
106	1976	The Last of Mrs. Lincoln	Senator Austin	0
107	1976	Welcome to L.A.	Carl Barber	50
108	1976	Guardian of the Wilderness	Galen Clark	65
109	1978	Legend of the Northwest		60
110	1978	Return from Witch Mountain	Uncle Bene	59
111	1978	How Bugs Bunny Won the West	Narrator	60
112	1978	Once Upon a Starry Night	Mad Jack	0
113	1979	When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion	Self	0
114	1981	Legend of the Wild	Narrator (Voice)	50
115	1983	Mercur: The Town that Can't Stay Dead	Narrator	0
116	1986	Return to Mayberry	Briscoe Darling	62
117	1987	Delta Fever	Walt	0
118	1992	John Wayne's 'The Alamo'	Self	60
119	1994	Maverick	Old Gambler on Riverboat	69
120	1994	Father and Scout	George Rosebrock	44
121	1997	The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!	Uncle Jesse Duke	52

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1949	The Lone Ranger	Deputy French	67
2	1949	The Lone Ranger	Colby	67
3	1949	The Lone Ranger	Stack	67
4	1949	The Lone Ranger	Deputy Allen	67
5	1950	The Gene Autry Show		42
6	1950	The Gene Autry Show	Frank Blake	42
7	1950	The Gene Autry Show	Burr Ramsey	42
8	1950	The Gene Autry Show	Dodge Hartman	42
9	1951	The Adventures of Kit Carson		53
10	1951	The Roy Rogers Show		64
11	1952	Adventures of Superman	Emile Hatch	67
12	1952	Hopalong Cassidy		52
13	1953	I'm the Law		57
14	1954	Annie Oakley	Dr. Barnes	52
15	1954	Annie Oakley	Tom Malloy	52
16	1954	Public Defender	Tom Gayley	60
17	1954	Public Defender	George Hansen	60
18	1954	The Lone Wolf	Kargar	70
19	1954	Lassie		61
20	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Mr. Royal (uncredited)	78
21	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Dr. Larson	78
22	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Amos Briggs (uncredited)	78
23	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Ben as an Adult (voice)	78
24	1955	The Millionaire	Arthur Darner	50
25	1955	Buffalo Bill Jr.		50
26	1955	The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp		68
27	1955	The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp	Ben Thompson	68
28	1955	The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp	Hoss Mackey	68
29	1955	Gunsmoke	Willie Calhoun	66
30	1955	Gunsmoke	Hank Shinn	66
31	1955	Gunsmoke	Mike Blocker	66
32	1955	Gunsmoke	Gus	66
33	1955	Gunsmoke	Aaron	66
34	1955	Gunsmoke	Haggen	66
35	1955	Gunsmoke	Pa	66
36	1955	Gunsmoke	Claudius	66
37	1955	Gunsmoke	Caleb	66
38	1955	Gunsmoke	Clab Chummer	66
39	1955	Gunsmoke	Caleb Nash	66
40	1955	Gunsmoke	Dr. Henry S. Rand	66
41	1955	Gunsmoke	Judge Blent	66
42	1955	Gunsmoke	Cyrus Himes	66
43	1955	Cheyenne		58
44	1955	Cheyenne	Cyrus Burton	58
45	1955	Cheyenne	John Hanson	58
46	1955	Frontier		50
47	1955	My Friend Flicka	Alec	57
48	1955	The 20th Century Fox Hour	Lester	54
49	1955	The 20th Century Fox Hour	Charley	54
50	1955	Fury	Carter	59
51	1956	The Adventures of Jim Bowie		45
52	1956	State Trooper	Mark Schmedler	50
53	1956	Broken Arrow	Fred Graf	50
54	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	John Baker	55
55	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Sheriff	55
56	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Marshal Quimby	55
57	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Sheriff Tom	55
58	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Seth Robson	55
59	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Marshal Joe Sully	55
60	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Nat Sledge	55
61	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel		74
62	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel	Pete Hollister	74
63	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel	Clay Sommers	74
64	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel	McKay	74
65	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel	Advent	74
66	1957	Wagon Train	Bragg	63
67	1957	Perry Mason	Robert Crane	77
68	1957	Perry Mason	Jackson Sidemark	77
69	1957	Perry Mason	Tom Quincy	77
70	1957	Perry Mason	Tilden Stuart	77
71	1957	Perry Mason	Emery Fillmore	77
72	1957	Perry Mason	Frank Honer	77
73	1957	Maverick		68
74	1957	Casey Jones	Frank Reeder	55
75	1957	26 Men		42
76	1958	Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer	Braddock	66
77	1958	Jefferson Drum	Bart Resdake	45
78	1958	Bronco		52
79	1958	The Texan		55
80	1958	The Texan	Sheriff	55
81	1958	The Texan	Chip Andrews	55
82	1958	The Texan	Houston Blackston	55
83	1958	The Rifleman		70
84	1958	Behind Closed Doors	Roger Woodson	0
85	1958	Lawman		56
86	1958	Bat Masterson	Dan Morgan	61
87	1958	Bat Masterson	Walsh (uncredited)	61
88	1959	Rawhide	John Wesley 'Daddy' Quade	72
89	1959	The Deputy	Akins	62
90	1959	Bonanza	Price Buchanan	75
91	1959	Bonanza	Claude Roman	75
92	1959	Bonanza	Sheriff Ed	75
93	1959	Bonanza	Marcus Caldwell	75
94	1959	Riverboat	Jim Bledsoe	62
95	1959	Men Into Space		70
96	1959	Wichita Town		42
97	1959	Law of the Plainsman	Burke Carew	60
98	1959	The Twilight Zone	Stu Tillman	84
99	1959	Bourbon Street Beat		50
100	1959	The Detectives		56
101	1960	The Tall Man	Marshal Dave Leggert	63
102	1960	Thriller	Ortho Wheeler	64
103	1960	The Aquanauts	Captain Leo Stohl	55
104	1960	National Velvet		75
105	1960	The Andy Griffith Show	Briscoe Darling	76
106	1960	Stagecoach West		60
107	1960	Route 66		63
108	1961	Cain's Hundred	Chief Amos Trask	47
109	1961	Dr. Kildare	R. E. Lenger	55
110	1961	Ben Casey		56
111	1961	The Dick Van Dyke Show	Uncle George	75
112	1962	The Virginian	Pico Brown	65
113	1962	Empire	Tom Rawling	68
114	1963	The Lieutenant		60
115	1963	Channing	Sam Riddle	70
116	1963	Mr. Novak	Brill	65
117	1963	The Great Adventure	Gen. Mills	0
118	1964	Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.	Titus Purcell	71
119	1965	Tammy	Mordecai Tarleton	50
120	1967	Cimarron Strip		50
121	1967	Hondo		65
122	1967	The Guns of Will Sonnett		62
123	1967	The High Chaparral	General Warren	65
124	1968	The Doris Day Show	Buck Webb	53
125	1971	Cannon		65
126	1972	The Waltons		71
127	1972	The Streets of San Francisco		69
128	1972	Kung Fu	Dr. Joseph Colton	77
129	1973	Barnaby Jones	Stayley Kircher	69
130	1974	Petrocelli		71
131	1974	The Manhunter		50
132	1975	Karen		50
133	1977	How the West Was Won	Sgt. Tripp	69
134	1977	Grizzly Adams		70
135	1978	Dallas	Blackie Callahan	69
136	1979	The Dukes of Hazzard	Jesse Duke	74
137	1983	The Dukes	Uncle Jesse (voice)	37
138	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Eben Connors	75
139	1986	L.A. Law	Harold Nordoff	71
140	1995	Cybill		58
141	1995	What a Cartoon!	Podunk Possum (voice)	72

Denver Pyle

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