William Scott Pyle

Place: Bethune

Born: 1920

Death: 1997

Biography:

William Scott Pyle was an American film and television actor and director. He was born in Bethune, Colorado in 1920 and died in 1997. 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 Times of Grizzly Adams, and as the titular 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. He is also known for his role as Texas Ranger Frank Hamer in the movie Bonnie and Clyde (1967).