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Denver Dell Pyle (May 11, 1920 – December 25, 1997) [1] [2] 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 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 ...
Best began his contract career in 1949 at Universal Studios, where he met fellow actors Julie Adams, Piper Laurie, Tony Curtis, Mamie Van Doren and Rock Hudson.Initially, he performed in several uncredited roles for Universal, such as in the 1950 film One Way Street, but credited performances soon followed that same year in the Westerns Comanche Territory, Winchester '73, and Kansas Raiders.
Briscoe is the patriarch of the family, and was played by Denver Pyle. He describes himself as "Briscoe Darling, tiller of soil, feller of trees". [2]: 107-108 Known for his gruff demeanor and poor manners, Briscoe would often make blunt or unintentionally offensive remarks due to his social ignorance. He wore a floppy hat and overalls to ...
I removed the following three apparently bogus (?) wives from "Personal life" section and replaced them with his two actual wives cited in 1997 NY Times obituary and Marilee Carpenter Pyle's 2010 LA Times obit. Denver married his first wife Betty O'Brian (1919–1987) on July 4, 1942. They had a son David Matthew Pyle (born September 16, 1945 ...
Missi Pyle (born November 16, 1972) [1] is an American actress and singer. She has appeared in a number of films, including Galaxy Quest (1999), Josie and the Pussycats (2001), Bringing Down the House (2003), Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008), The Artist (2011), Gone Girl (2014), Captain Fantastic ...
[4] and with Denver Pyle in 1976's Guardian of the Wilderness, the story of Galen Clark, the man who created Yosemite National Park. Berry also earned broader success as a Disney star in the films Herbie Rides Again in 1974, with Helen Hayes and Stefanie Powers, and The Cat from Outer Space in 1978, with Sandy Duncan and McLean Stevenson.
Fremont, originally from St. Louis, gives up his job as a tinsmith in favor of a life as a mountain man. In the mountains he befriends and protects many local animals. Denver Pyle co-stars as "the old mountaineer". Three of the stars, Dan Haggerty, Denver Pyle and Don Shanks, also appeared together in the TV series The Life And Times Of Grizzly ...
Ken Curtis as Festus Haggen and James Arness as Matt Dillon, 1968. Curtis was a singer before moving into acting, and combined both careers once he entered films. [6] Curtis was with the Tommy Dorsey band in 1941, and succeeded Frank Sinatra as vocalist until Dick Haymes contractually replaced Sinatra in 1942.