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Sat 24
Have Gun, Will Travel: The Posse — Denver Pyle
Drifter Dobie O'Brien claims Paladin is the killer being sought by a lynch-minded posse. Paladin: Richard Boone. Sheriff: Harry Carey Jr. McKay: Denver Pyle. Curley: Ken Curtis.
Air Time & Details for Denver Pyle, Sat 24, 5:00 pm -
Sun 25
Life and Times of Grizzly Adams: The Skyrider — Denver Pyle
Anxious to become the first man to fly, an inventor uses the mountain as the test site for his human-powered aircraft. Dan Haggerty. Mad Jack: Denver Pyle. Milton Wright: Russ Tamblyn. Nakuma: Don Shanks.
Air Time & Details for Denver Pyle, Sun 25, 6:00 am -
Sun 25
Red Canyon — Denver Pyle
Action yarn about a cowboy (Howard Duff), a wild stallion and a gang of horse thieves, all leading up to the climactic big race. Ann Blyth, George Brent. Jonah: Edgar Buchanan. Hutch: Denver Pyle. Cordt: John McIntire. Brackton: Chill Wills. Virgil: Lloyd Bridges. George Sherman directed.
Air Time & Details for Denver Pyle, Sun 25, 12:00 pm -
Mon 26
Bonanza: The Boss — Denver Pyle
The Cartwrights try to rally the town against a tyrannical freight-line owner.
Air Time & Details for Denver Pyle, Mon 26, 8:00 pm -
Tue 27
Bonanza: Little Man---10 Feet Tall — Denver Pyle
In the Season 4 finale, a young Italian immigrant loses respect for his physically weak father after meeting Hoss.
Air Time & Details for Denver Pyle, Tue 27, 7:00 pm -
Tue 27
The Andy Griffith Show: The Darlings Are Coming — Denver Pyle
Hillbilly family the Darlings made their first appearance in this episode, in which the betrothed Charlene develops a crush on Andy. Briscoe: Denver Pyle. Charlene: Margaret Ann Peterson. Darling Brothers: Dillard Brothers. Dud: Hoke Howell. Opie: Ronny Howard.
Air Time & Details for Denver Pyle, Tue 27, 8:30 pm -
Wed 28
The Real McCoys: McCoys, Ahoy — Denver Pyle
With fire in his eyes, Grampa leads the clan in a battle with the Navy. Walter Brennan. Captain: Denver Pyle. Luke: Richard Crenna. Kate: Kathleen Nolan.
Air Time & Details for Denver Pyle, Wed 28, 5:00 am -
Wed 28
Cahill, United States Marshal — Denver Pyle
A widowed lawman learns that his two sons were involved in a deadly bank heist after being lured into the criminal lifestyle by a notorious bandit.
Air Time & Details for Denver Pyle, Wed 28, 9:30 am -
Wed 28
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Thu 29
The Rounders — Denver Pyle
Two aging but freewheeling horse wranglers dreaming of better days and hoping to make enough money to retire enter their wild, stubborn roan, who has a taste for alcohol, in a bucking-bronco contest at a rodeo.
Air Time & Details for Denver Pyle, Thu 29, 12:00 am -
Fri 30
The Rifleman: The Clarence Bibs Story — Denver Pyle
A janitor-turned-gunfighter whose reputation hangs on one lucky shot---and a lot of gall.
Air Time & Details for Denver Pyle, Fri 30, 11:30 am -
Fri 30
Bonanza: The Passing of a King — Denver Pyle
The Cartwrights battle Jeremy Roman, who is taking advantage of his father's ill health to perpetrate outrages.
Air Time & Details for Denver Pyle, Fri 30, 2:00 pm -
Fri 30
The Andy Griffith Show: Mountain Wedding — Denver Pyle
Ernest T. Bass (Howard Morris) made his first appearance in this classic episode, in which he's determined to marry Charlene Darling, even though she's wed to Dud Wash. This is also the show that finds Barney dressed as a bride. Dub Taylor appears as a preacher. Charlene: Margaret Ann Peterson. Dud: Hoke Howell. Briscoe: Denver Pyle.
Air Time & Details for Denver Pyle, Fri 30, 8:30 pm -
Fri 30
Cheyenne Autumn — Denver Pyle
John Ford's final Western is an account of the defiant 1887 migration of 300 Cheyenne Indians from their reservation in Oklahoma territory to their original home in Wyoming.
Air Time & Details for Denver Pyle, Fri 30, 9:00 pm
Filmography
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Biography
About Denver Pyle
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Had he been born a decade earlier, American actor Denver Pyle might well have joined the ranks of western-movie comedy sidekicks. Instead, Pyle, a Colorado farm boy, opted for studying law, working his way through school by playing drums in a dance band. Suddenly one day, Pyle became disenchanted with law and returned to his family farm, with nary an idea what he wanted to do with his life.
Working in the oil fields of Oklahoma, he moved on to the shrimp boats of Galveston, Texas. A short stint as a page at NBC radio studios in 1940 didn't immediately lead to a showbiz career, as it has for so many others; instead, Pyle was inspired to perform by a mute oilfield coworker who was able to convey his thought with body language. Studying under such masters as Michael Chekhov and Maria Ouspenskaya, Pyle was able to achieve small movie and TV roles.
He worked frequently on the western series of Roy Rogers and Gene Autry; not yet bearded and grizzled, Pyle was often seen as deputies, farmers and cattle rustlers. When his hair turned prematurely grey in his early '30s, Pyle graduated to banker, sheriff and judge roles in theatrical westerns -- though never of the comic variety. He also was a regular on two TV series, Code 3 (1956) and Tammy (1966).
But his real breakthrough role didn't happen until 1967, when Pyle was cast as the taciturn sheriff in Bonnie and Clyde who is kidnapped and humilated by the robbers -- and then shows up at the end of the film to supervise the bloody machine-gun deaths of B&C. This virtually nonspeaking role won worldwide fame for Pyle, as well as verbal and physical assalts from the LA hippie community who regarded Bonnie and Clyde as folk heroes! From this point forward, Denver Pyle's billing, roles and salary were vastly improved -- and his screen image was softened and humanized by a full, bushy beard.
Returning to TV, Pyle played the star's father on The Doris Day Show (1968-73); was Mad Jack, the costar/narrator of Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1978-80); and best of all, spent six years (1979-85) as Uncle Jesse Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard. Looking stockier but otherwise unchanged, Denver Pyle was briefly seen in the 1994 hit Maverick, playing an elegantly dishonest cardshark who jauntily doffs his hat as he's dumped off of a riverboat. Pyle died of lung cancer at Burbank's Providence St. Joseph Medical Center at age 77.