
Denver Pyle
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 11, 1920
- Died
- December 25, 1997 (aged 77)
- Birthplace
- Bethune, Colorado, USA
Biography
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
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Filmography

The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
Movie · as Uncle Jesse Duke

Cybill
TV · as Denver Pyle (uncredited) · 1 ep

What a Cartoon!
TV · as Podunk Possum (voice) · 1 ep

Maverick
Movie · as Old Gambler on Riverboat

Father and Scout
Movie · as George Rosebrock
John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
Movie · as Self

Delta Fever
Movie · as Walt

Return to Mayberry
Movie · as Briscoe Darling

L.A. Law
TV · as Harold Nordoff · 1 ep

Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Eben Connors · 1 ep

Mercur: The Town that Can't Stay Dead
Movie · as Narrator

The Dukes
TV · as Uncle Jesse (voice) · 20 eps

Legend of the Wild
Movie · as Narrator (Voice)

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Movie · as Self

The Dukes of Hazzard
TV · as Jesse Duke · 147 eps
Once Upon a Starry Night
Movie · as Mad Jack

Return from Witch Mountain
Movie · as Uncle Bene

How Bugs Bunny Won the West
Movie · as Narrator

Legend of the Northwest
Movie · as Abner

Dallas
TV · as Blackie Callahan · 2 eps

Grizzly Adams
TV · as Mad Jack · 37 eps

How the West Was Won
TV · as Sgt. Tripp · 1 ep

The Love Boat
TV · as Eric Springer · 1 ep

Hawmps!
Movie · as Col. Seymour Hawkins

Welcome to L.A.
Movie · as Carl Barber

The Last of Mrs. Lincoln
Movie · as Senator Austin

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
Movie · as The Indian Agent (McLaughlin)

The Adventures of Frontier Fremont
Movie · as Old mountain man

Guardian of the Wilderness
Movie · as Galen Clark

Winterhawk
Movie · as Arkansas

Escape to Witch Mountain
Movie · as Uncle Bene

The Boy Who Talked to Badgers
Movie · as Ben as an Adult

Death Among Friends
Movie · as Morgan

Hog Wild
Movie · as Dr. Larson

The Legend of Hillbilly John
Movie · as Grandpappy John

Murder or Mercy
Movie · as Amos Champion

Petrocelli
TV · as Andrew Warburton · 1 ep

The Manhunter
TV · as Sam Dickerson · 1 ep

Hitched
Movie · as Ben Barnstable

Cahill: United States Marshal
Movie · as Denver

Barnaby Jones
TV · as Stayley Kircher · 1 ep

Kung Fu
TV · as Dr. Joseph Colton · 2 eps

The Streets of San Francisco
TV · as Carl Armstrong · 1 ep

The Waltons
TV · as Cousin Homer Lee Baldwin · 1 ep

Something Big
Movie · as Junior Frisbee

Mean Justice
Movie · as Tom Rawling

Cannon
TV · as Sheriff Hogsett · 1 ep

5 Card Stud
Movie · as Sig Evers

Bandolero!
Movie · as Muncie Carter

The Doris Day Show
TV · as Buck Webb · 80 eps

Bonnie and Clyde
Movie · as Frank Hamer

Welcome to Hard Times
Movie · as Alfie - Stage Driver

Tammy and the Millionaire
Movie · as Grandpa Mordecai Tarleton

Cimarron Strip
TV · as Charley Austin · 1 ep

The High Chaparral
TV · as General Warren · 1 ep

The Guns of Will Sonnett
TV · as Sam Cochran · 1 ep

Hondo
TV · as Judge Amos Blunt · 1 ep

Incident at Phantom Hill
Movie · as 1st Hunter

Gunpoint
Movie · as Cap

Shenandoah
Movie · as Pastor Bjoerling

The Great Race
Movie · as Sheriff

The Rounders
Movie · as Bull

Mara of the Wilderness
Movie · as Kelly

Tammy
TV · as Mordecai Tarleton · 26 eps

Cheyenne Autumn
Movie · as Sen. Henry (uncredited)

Mail Order Bride
Movie · as Preacher Pope

Black Like Me
Movie · as Man in pick-up truck

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
TV · as Titus Purcell · 1 ep

Terrified
Movie · as Sheriff Dixon

The Great Adventure
TV · as Gen. Mills · 1 ep

Mr. Novak
TV · as Brill · 1 ep

The Lieutenant
TV · as Maj. Matthew Morrissey · 1 ep

Channing
TV · as Sam Riddle · 1 ep

Temple Houston
TV · as Phineas Fallon · 1 ep

Arrest and Trial
TV · as Jack Felton · 1 ep

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Movie · as Amos Carruthers

Geronimo
Movie · as Senator Conrad

The Virginian
TV · as Pico Brown · 1 ep

Empire
TV · as Tom Rawling · 1 ep

Cain's Hundred
TV · as Chief Amos Trask · 1 ep

The Dick Van Dyke Show
TV · as Uncle George · 1 ep

Ben Casey
TV · as Dallas Hopewell · 1 ep

Dr. Kildare
TV · as R. E. Lenger · 1 ep

Kraft Mystery Theatre
TV · as Captain Lister · 1 ep

The Alamo
Movie · as Thimblerig (the Gambler)

Home from the Hill
Movie · as Mr. Bradley

The Andy Griffith Show
TV · as Briscoe Darling · 6 eps

Thriller
TV · as Ortho Wheeler · 1 ep

The Aquanauts
TV · as Captain Leo Stohl · 1 ep

National Velvet
TV · as Jed Corrigan · 1 ep

Stagecoach West
TV · as Hewitt · 1 ep

The Tall Man
TV · as Marshal Dave Leggert · 1 ep

Checkmate
TV · as Terry Adams · 1 ep

Route 66
TV · as Father Prior, Joe Wylie · 1 ep

Good Day for a Hanging
Movie · as Deputy Ed Moore

The Horse Soldiers
Movie · as Jackie Jo

Cast a Long Shadow
Movie · as Preacher Harrison

King of the Wild Stallions
Movie · as MacGuire's Henchman

Bourbon Street Beat
TV · 1 ep

The Twilight Zone
TV · as Stu Tillman · 1 ep

Rawhide
TV · as John Wesley 'Daddy' Quade · 1 ep

Men Into Space
TV · 1 ep

Law of the Plainsman
TV · as Burke Carew · 1 ep

Riverboat
TV · as Jim Bledsoe · 1 ep

Wichita Town
TV · 1 ep

The Detectives
TV · as Bill Darien · 1 ep

The Deputy
TV · as Akins, Frank Barton · 1 ep

Bonanza
TV · as Price Buchanan, Claude Roman, Sheriff Ed, Marcus Caldwell, Theodore 'Ted' Hackett, Sheriff Tom Stedman, Warden · 1 ep

The Left Handed Gun
Movie · as Ollinger

Fort Massacre
Movie · as Collins

The Party Crashers
Movie · as Mr. Bickford

Bitter Heritage
Movie · as Sam Wheeler

China Doll
Movie · as Col. Wiley

Bronco
TV · as Norton Gillespie, Nelson, Petrie Munger · 1 ep

The Rifleman
TV · 5 eps

Bat Masterson
TV · as Dan Morgan, Walsh (uncredited) · 1 ep

Jefferson Drum
TV · as Bart Resdake · 1 ep

Behind Closed Doors
TV · as Roger Woodson · 1 ep

The Texan
TV · as Sheriff, Chip Andrews, Houston Blackston, Joe Lufton · 1 ep

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
TV · as Braddock · 1 ep

Lawman
TV · as Glen Folsom, Sam Brackett · 1 ep

The Lonely Man
Movie · as Brad, Red Bluff Sheriff

Gun Duel in Durango
Movie · as Ranger Captain

Domino Kid
Movie · as Bill Dragger
Destination 60,000
Movie · as Mickey Hill

Jet Pilot
Movie · as Mr. Simpson

Perry Mason
TV · as Robert Crane, Jackson Sidemark, Tom Quincy, Tilden Stuart, Emery Fillmore, Frank Honer · 1 ep

Have Gun, Will Travel
TV · as Pete Hollister, Clay Sommers, McKay, Advent · 3 eps

26 Men
TV · 2 eps

Maverick
TV · as Jerry O'Brien · 1 ep

Casey Jones
TV · as Frank Reeder · 1 ep

Wagon Train
TV · as Bragg · 1 ep

The Restless Gun
TV · as Sheriff Jay · 1 ep

Tombstone Territory
TV · 1 ep

The Real McCoys
TV · 1 ep

7th Cavalry
Movie · as Dixon

Please Murder Me
Movie · as Det. Lt. Bradley

The Naked Hills
Movie · as Bert Killian / Narrator

I Killed Wild Bill Hickok
Movie · as Jim Bailey

Yaqui Drums
Movie · as Lefty Barr

The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV · 2 eps

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV · as John Baker, Sheriff, Marshal Quimby, Sheriff Tom, Seth Robson, Joe Sully, Nat Sledge · 1 ep

State Trooper
TV · as Mark Schmedler · 1 ep

Broken Arrow
TV · as Fred Graf · 1 ep

To Hell and Back
Movie · as Thompson

Ten Wanted Men
Movie

Top Gun
Movie · as Hank Spencer (uncredited)

Rage at Dawn
Movie · as Clint Reno

Run for Cover
Movie · as Harvey

Gunsmoke
TV · as Willie Calhoun, Hank Shinn, Mike Blocker, Gus, Aaron, Haggen, Pa, Claudius, Caleb, Clab Chummer, Caleb Nash, Henry Rand, Judge Blent, Cyrus Himes · 1 ep

The Millionaire
TV · as Arthur Darner · 1 ep

Buffalo Bill Jr.
TV · 2 eps

My Friend Flicka
TV · as Alec · 1 ep

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
TV · as Ben Thompson, Hoss Mackey, Oliver Tittle, Dobie Jenner · 7 eps

Fury
TV · as Carter · 1 ep

Cheyenne
TV · as Cyrus Burton, John Hanson, Nate Weyland · 1 ep

The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV · as Lester, Charley · 1 ep

Frontier
TV · as Eben, Frank · 1 ep

Crossroads
TV · as Ockschmitt, Lou 'Dial' Harrington · 1 ep

The Command
Movie · as Infantryman (uncredited)

Drum Beat
Movie · as Fairchild (uncredited)

The Boy from Oklahoma
Movie · as Bagley

Johnny Guitar
Movie · as Posseman (uncredited)

Ride Clear of Diablo
Movie · as Reverend Moorehead

The Yellow Mountain
Movie · as (uncredited)

Lassie
TV · as Mr. Madden · 1 ep

Public Defender
TV · as Tom Gayley, George Hansen · 1 ep

The Wonderful World of Disney
TV · as Mr. Royal (uncredited), Dr. Larson, Amos Briggs (uncredited), Ben as an Adult (voice), Uncle Bene, Clay Tanner · 1 ep

Annie Oakley
TV · as Dr. Barnes, Tom Malloy · 1 ep

The Lone Wolf
TV · as Kargar · 1 ep

Fort Vengeance
Movie · as Rider Warning About Wagon Train (uncredited)

The Lone Hand
Movie · as Regulator (uncredited)

Column South
Movie · as Confederate Spy in Yankee Uniform (uncredited)

Gunsmoke
Movie · as Greasy (uncredited)

Goldtown Ghost Riders
Movie · as Bernie Malloy (uncredited)

Texas Bad Man
Movie · as Tench

Rebel City
Movie · as Greeley

Topeka
Movie · as Jonas Bailey

Vigilante Terror
Movie · as Henchman Sperry

A Perilous Journey
Movie · as Bartender

I'm the Law
TV · 1 ep

You Are There
TV · as Chairman Savage, Cotta, Capt. Canfield, William Bayard Hale, William Newell, Col. Tench Tilghman, Dan DeQuille · 2 eps

Letter to Loretta
TV · as Henry · 1 ep

Mutiny
Movie · as Gunner / Mutineer (uncredited)

Oklahoma Annie
Movie · as Skip

Desert Passage
Movie · as Allen

Canyon Ambush
Movie · as Tom Carlton-Replaced (credit only)

Fargo
Movie · as Carey

Man from the Black Hills
Movie · as Glenn Hartley

The Maverick
Movie · as Bud Karnes

Adventures of Superman
TV · as Emile Hatch · 1 ep

Hopalong Cassidy
TV · 2 eps

Million Dollar Pursuit
Movie · as Nick Algren

Drums in the Deep South
Movie · as Union Soldier Breaking Window (uncredited)

Hills of Utah
Movie · as Bowie French

Rough Riders of Durango
Movie · as Henchman Lacey

The Adventures of Kit Carson
TV · as Edmund Denning, Flip Kilson, Hackett · 5 eps

The Roy Rogers Show
TV · as Henchman Nash, Bad Boy Wiley, Zeke Miller, Tom Larrabee · 1 ep

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
TV · as Henchman (uncredited) · 1 ep

Federal Agent at Large
Movie · as 'Jumpy' Jordan

Customs Agent
Movie · as Al

Dynamite Pass
Movie · as Henchman

Captain China
Movie · as Steve

The Flying Saucer
Movie · as Turner

Singing Guns
Movie · as Richards Henchman

The Old Frontier
Movie · as Henchman George

The Gene Autry Show
TV · as Frank Blake, Burr Ramsey, Dodge Hartman, First Henchman, Rawhide Vest, Curt Wayne, Professor Sharp, Sheriff, Cleanshaven Deputy-Henchman, Jim, the Sheriff, Edward Hadley · 1 ep

The Cisco Kid
TV · as Professor Jerry Roark, Bank Robber · 1 ep

Flame of Youth
Movie · as Lytz

Rim of the Canyon
Movie · as Cash Collins (uncredited)
Streets of San Francisco
Movie · as Ed Quinn

Red Canyon
Movie · as Hutch

Too Late for Tears
Movie · as Young Man at Union Station (uncredited)

El Paso
Movie · as Vigilante (uncredited)

The Big Wheel
Movie · as Track Intern

Hellfire
Movie · as Rex

The Lone Ranger
TV · as Deputy French, Colby, Stack, Deputy Allen, Grayson, Arley McQueen, Vance Kiley · 1 ep

The Man from Colorado
Movie · as Easy Jarrett, Easy Jarrett (uncredited)
Train to Alcatraz
Movie · as Hutch Hutchins

Marshal of Amarillo
Movie · as The Night Clerk

Devil Ship
Movie · as Carl

The Guilt of Janet Ames
Movie · as Man in Opening Scene (uncredited)

Where the North Begins
Movie · as Jim Rockwell



