Denver Pyle Filmography

Father and Scout

Actors: Bob Saget, Brian Bonsall, Troy Evans, Stuart Pankin, David Graf

Synopsis: A father gets a crash-course in the outdoors in this made-for-television comedy for kids. Comedian Bob Saget stars as an urban-living dad who decides to take his son Michael (Brian Bonsall) -- working his way to Eagle Scout -- on a camping trip. Poor dad is well-meaning, but fumbles his way Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Coal Miner's Slaughter

Synopsis: A pre-Will and Grace Megan Mullally guest stars in this episode as Molly Connors, the feisty daughter of West Virginia coal miner Eben Connors (Denver Pyle). When Eben dies in a suspicious mining accident, Molly sweeps into town to accuse the mine's owner of being responsible for her dad's death. Read More

Delta Fever

Return to Mayberry

Actors: Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, Jim Nabors, Ron Howard, Howard Morris

Synopsis: Inspired by the success of previous TV sitcom "reunion" films, Return to Mayberry debuted on April 13, 1986. Eleven of the original cast members of the classic Andy Griffith Show were reunited in this marvelous blast from the past. The plot finds former sheriff Andy Taylor (Griffith, of course) Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Season 07

Synopsis: The seventh and final season of Dukes of Hazzard finds the familiar cast back in harness, with the exception of Don Pedro Colley in the recurring role of Chickasaw County Sheriff Ed Little. Once again, hot-rodding cousins Luke and Bo Duke (Tom Wopat, John Schneider), aided and abetted by sexy Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Go West, Young Dukes

Synopsis: Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) produces a document which "proves" that the Duke farm was deeded to his great-grandfather Thaddeus Hogg by Jesse's great-grandfather Jeremiah Duke way back in 1862. Investigating this surprising turn of events, the Dukes refer to a diary left behind by their great-grandma Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Season 06

Synopsis: Season six of Dukes of Hazzard finds hot-rodding cousins Luke and Bo Duke returning to Hazzard County for good and all, cueing the exit of another set of Duke cousins, Coy and Vance. This is because series stars Tom Wopat and John Schneider, who'd ankled the series during season five in the midst Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Share and Share Alike

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After Bo (John Schneider) and Luke (Tom Wopat) stumble across a stash of stolen credit cards, Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) hatches a scheme to get his hands on the cards and frame the Dukes for theft in the process. But Boss has reckoned without his formidable wife Lulu (Peggy Rea), who has just Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: New Deputy in Town

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Tracy Scoggins guest stars as Linda Mae Barnes, a voluptuous female deputy who is escorting a male prisoner through Hazzard County. Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) is not only enchanted by Linda Mae's beauty, but he's also impressed by the gal's mercenary streak. The Duke boys are likewise appreciative Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Season 05

Synopsis: There are many Dukes of Hazzard fans who would just as soon pretend that the series' fifth season never existed. Although perennial co-stars Catherine Bach, Denver Pyle, Sorrell Booke, and James Best are back, and Sonny Shroyer has returned in his familiar role as Deputy Enos Strate (after a brief Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: The Dukescam Scam

Crew: Director

Synopsis: As means of repaying an old debt of honor, Jesse (Denver Pyle) comes to the rescue of an incarcerated Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke). Thrown in the slammer by Sheriff Roscoe (James Best) for robbing his own bank, Boss begs Jesse to post bail, which Jesse does by mortgaging his farm. Little do the Dukes Read More

How Bugs Bunny Won the West

Synopsis: This video presents its own unique version of the infamous wild west, and features Warner Brothers icons Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck as two of the most prominent figures in American history. Actor Denver Pyle narrates. How Bugs Bunny Won the West was directed by Hal Geer. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: The Great Insurance Fraud

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In an effort to collect a million bucks on Boss Hogg's ($Sorrell Booke}) phony insurance policies, con artists Lavinia (Melanie Vincz) and Ward (Brian Libby) stage an equally phony car accident at Bottomless Lake. Unknowingly, the Duke cousins sideswipe the (unoccupied) "death car" just before it Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Lawman of the Year

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In mid-escape from the authorities, Coy (Byron Cherry) and Vance (Christopher Mayer) take time to investigate some shady-looking characters hanging around a jewelry store. These characters turn out to be crooks hired by Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) to rob the store and frame the Duke boys for the Read More

Legend of the Wild

Synopsis: The Old West calls to one lone individual in this western film. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: To Catch a Duke

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A gang of jewel thieves make their getaway in the "General Lee", convincing Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) that Bo (John Schneider) and Luke (Tom Wopat) are members of the gang. Later on, the stolen jewels are found in the car belonging to Sheriff Roscoe (James Best), who is promptly fired--and making Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Season 04

Synopsis: The Dukes of Hazzard spends most of its fourth season entertainingly covering ground already traveled during the series' previous three seasons. Cousins Luke and Bo Duke (Tom Wopat, John Schneider) continue burning up the byways of Hazzard County in "The General Lee," their souped-up Dodge Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Bye, Bye Boss

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Convict Digger Jackson (Charles Napier) has escaped from prison, swearing revenge on Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke). By and by, Jackson kidnaps Boss and holds him for ransom, but no one has any inclination to pay up--and the only people who could possibly rescue Boss, Bo (John Schneider) and Luke (Tom Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: The Great Bank Robbery

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Just one day before he is eligible for his pension, longtime bank employee Clarence Stovall (Bill Erwin) is fired by Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke). In a brief fit of pique, Clarence steals $30,000 from the bank--and it is up to the Dukes to return the money without getting either Clarence or Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Goodbye, General Lee

Synopsis: The time has come for Hazzard County's annual "Drag 'N' Fly" car-jumping contest, and Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) is determined to win by removing the Dukes from the running. With the help of a shady professor named Crandall (Walker Edmiston in his first series appearance), Boss has Luke Duke (Tom Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Season 03

Synopsis: Season three of Dukes of Hazzard is substantially the same as season two, with cousins Luke and Bo Duke (Tom Wopat, John Schneider) manning their hopped up hot rod "The General Lee" in order to confound and confuse crooked county commissioner Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) and dumb-bumb sheriff Roscoe Read More

The Renewal

Hog Wild

Actors: Michael Biehn, Patti D'Arbanville, Tony Rosato, Angelo Rizacos, Martin Doyle

Synopsis: In this uninspired attempt at teen comedy, Tim (Michael Biehn) has returned home in disgrace as far as his dad is concerned -- he was expelled from his military academy. The next thing Tim knows he is fighting off a gang of bikers that are terrorizing the high schoolers, and worse yet, he is Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: The Great Santa Claus Chase

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the series' only Christmas episode, Bo (John Schneider) and Luke (Tom Wopat) are delivering Christmas trees to needy families when their cargo is hijacked by the hired goons of Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke). Accused of staging the hijacking themselves, the Duke boys have to do some quick thinkin' Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: R.I.P. Henry Flatt

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The latest graft-ridden scheme hatched by Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) involves plowing up a veteran's cemetery in order to build a new highway. Unfortunately, this would reveal that the grave supposedly occupied by the late con artist Henry Flatt is empty--mainly because Flatt (played by Hal Smith Read More

Carnival of Thrills

Synopsis: Carnival of Thrills is a 2 hour episode of the no-brainer TV series Dukes of Hazzard. Bo Duke (John Schneider) falls for beautiful carnival owner Robin Matson. Upon unraveling himself from her little finger, Bo agrees to perform a death-defying stunt. Matson convinces him to jump his beloved hot Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Season 02

Synopsis: So popular were the first 13 episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard that CBS ordered a full complement of 24 hour-long installments for the series' second season. Thematically, little changed from season one to season two: Hot-rodding cousins Luke and Bo Duke (Tom Wopat, John Schneider) continue manning Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Season 01

Synopsis: Introduced as a mid-season replacement on CBS' Friday-night schedule, Dukes of Hazzard spends most of its first season establishing, reestablishing, and then re-reestablishing the ongoing battle of wills and wits between Hazzard County hot rodders (and cousins) Luke Duke (Tom Wopat) and Bo Duke (John Schneider Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard [TV Series]

Actors: Tom Wopat, John Schneider, Catherine Bach, Denver Pyle

Synopsis: Wildly popular during its six-season run on CBS, The Dukes of Hazzard focused on the ongoing adventures of Bo Duke (John Schneider) and Luke Duke (Tom Wopat), two cousins living in Hazzard County in the Deep South. Jefferson Davis Hogg (Sorrell Booke) is a corrupt local political bigwig who has Read More

Bearheart of the Great Northwest

Return from Witch Mountain

Actors: Bette Davis, Christopher Lee, Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann, Jack Soo

Synopsis: The Fury meets The Misadventures of Merlin Jones in this comic-book sequel to Disney's Escape to Witch Mountain. Reprising their roles as the psychic siblings from another world are Kim Richards as Tia and Ike Eisenmann as Tony. Their Uncle Bene (Denver Pyle) gives the kids a treat by letting them Read More

Legend of the Northwest

Synopsis: Legend of the Northwest is a surprisingly violent effort given the "family" audience it is aimed at. The principal character is a dog of unswerving loyalty. The dog's master is shot and killed by an intoxicated hunter. Grimly, the faithful hound tracks down the miscreant and sees to it that Read More

The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams [TV Series]

Actors: Dan Haggerty, Denver Pyle, Don Shanks, John Bishop

Grizzly Adams: Season 01

Actors: Dan Haggerty, Denver Pyle, Don Shanks, John Bishop

Grizzly Adams: Season 02

Actors: Dan Haggerty, Denver Pyle, Don Shanks, John Bishop

Mountain Man

Actors: Denver Pyle, John Dehner, Ken Berry, Cheryl Miller, Don Shanks

Synopsis: This family adventure chronicles the adventures and exploits of George Clark (Denver Pyle), one of the early naturalists. Clark was a friend and peer of John Muir, the man whose writings did so much to encourage the development of the national park system in the U.S. The two men attempt to save Read More

Hawmps!

Actors: James Hampton, Christopher Connelly, Slim Pickens, Denver Pyle

Synopsis: Joe Camp, the writer and director of Benji, tried his hand with another breed of animal in this comedy. A U.S. Cavalry unit in Texas is having a hard time dealing with horses who aren't acclimated to the hot, dry weather, so it becomes the subject of an experiment -- instead of horses, the cavalry Read More

Welcome to L.A.

Actors: Keith Carradine, Sally Kellerman, Geraldine Chaplin, Harvey Keitel, Lauren Hutton

Synopsis: Alan Rudolph's first feature Welcome to L.A. displays his characteristic mood of romantic despair utilizing a La Ronde-like circle of sexual adventures and failed affairs centered around song-writer Carroll Barber (Keith Carradine) which spread out through the city. Barber is an aloof womanizer Read More

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson

Actors: Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy, Harvey Keitel, Allan Nicholls

Synopsis: "Truth is whatever gets the loudest applause." Debunking western myths even more than he did in McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), Robert Altman's Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976) sardonically explores the gap between western history and legend in show biz-obsessed Read More

Winterhawk

Actors: Leif Erickson, Woody Strode, Denver Pyle, L.Q. Jones, Michael Dante

Synopsis: This melodramatic adventure follows the exploits of a young Blackfoot Indian who goes to the Anglos for some badly needed smallpox serum. Instead of helping him, they attack. The young man is enraged and retaliates by kidnapping two young people from the unfriendly settlement. He takes them Read More

The Last of Mrs. Lincoln

Actors: Julie Harris, Michael Cristofer, Robby Benson

Synopsis: Julie Harris stars as Mary Todd Lincoln in this look at the twilight of the former First Lady's life. After her husband's assassination, she finds herself heavily in debt and denied a pension due to her Southern ancestry, and spends the remainder of her life deeply depressed, dying impoverished Read More

The Adventures of Frontier Fremont

Synopsis: The Adventures of Frontier Fremont was one of the better Sunn Classics "four-wallers." Fremont (Dan Haggerty), a mild-mannered citizen of 19th-century St. Louis, gives up his job as a tinsmith in favor of a life in the mountains. Here he becomes friends with the animals and with other like-minded Read More

Death Among Friends

Synopsis: Canadian actress Kate Reid plays a lady p.i. in Death Among Friends. Kate is hired to solve the murder of a multimillionaire financier. As tipped off by the title, she need look no farther than the dead man's circle of friends. Refreshingly, both the heroine and her police contact, John Anderson Read More

Escape to Witch Mountain

Actors: Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence, Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann

Synopsis: This fast-paced Disney endeavor stars Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann as two adolescents with acute psychic powers. The kids are actually space aliens, but suffer from amnesia and are unaware of their origins. Pursued by greedy business-mogul Ray Milland, who wants to harness their special powers Read More

The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams

Synopsis: In this wilderness adventure (which later inspired a TV series), Dan Haggerty stars as Adams, a trapper who flees for the mountains when he is wrongly accused of a crime. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder or Mercy

Synopsis: Made for television in 1974, a doctor (Melvyn Douglas) is accused of murdering his terminally ill wife. The defense receives a shot in the arm when a famed lawyer returns from retirement to help the case. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Sidekicks

Synopsis: This comedy western is the failed pilot for a TV series based on the 1971 feature film Skin Game. Like the original, this tells the story of two bungling con artists, one white the other black, who ride around trying to collect an outlaw bounty and outsmart slave traders. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Cahill: United States Marshal

Actors: Ken Wolger, John Wayne, Gary Grimes, George Kennedy, Neville Brand, Clay O'Brien

Synopsis: John Wayne plays a lawman who has to deal with the problems of fatherhood in a big way in Cahill: United States Marshall. Wayne is J.D. Cahill, whose singular desire to track down law breakers strains his relationship with his two teenage sons --17-year-old Danny (Gary Grimes) and 12-year-old Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Winterkill

Synopsis: Venerable character actor Paul Fix guests in this episode as Wade Tillman, a self-styled septugenarian Robin Hood. Outraged at the isurmountable medical bills facing himself and his fellow nursing-home residents, Tillman resorts to robbery and extortion to buck the system. Within its usual "cops Read More

The Legend of Hillbilly John

Actors: Honor Hound

Synopsis: Based primarily on the "Silver John" tales of Manly Wade Wellman, this enthusiastically silly low-budgeter tells the story of young John (Hedge Capers), a balladeer who returns home to find that his Grandpappy (Denver Pyle) -- also named John -- has decided to do battle with the Devil by playing a Read More

Hitched

Synopsis: The made-for-TV family-Western Hitched is a sequel to the 1971 TV movie Lock, Stock and Barrel, with Sally Field stepping into the role originally played by Belinda Montgomery. Newly married couple Roselle and Clare Bridgeman (played by Field and Tim Matheson) head westward to seek their fortune Read More

The Waltons: The Reunion

Synopsis: The Baldwin sisters are once again visited by one of their less reputable relatives. This time, their guest is cousin Homer (Denver Pyle), who hopes to persuade Miss Emily (Mary Jackson) and Miss Mamie (Helen Kleeb) to hold a Baldwin family reunion. In truth, however, Homer plans to use the Read More

Bonanza: Riot!

Actors: Michael Landon, David Canary, Aldo Ray, Marco St. John, Gregory Walcott

Synopsis: The shadow of the recent Attica uprising looms large over the October 3, 1972 Bonanza episode "Riot!" While on a tour of the Nevada State Prison, Ben Cartwright and several other prominent men are taken hostage by rioting prisoners. Though some of the inmates hope to escape, most of the others Read More

Something Big

Synopsis: In this western, an outlaw anxiously awaits the arrival of his betrothed, who is under the false impression that her fiancé is worth a fortune. Unfortunately, the fellow has earned nothing during his stint in the West. Desperate to keep her, he begins plotting the theft of a Mexican bandit's loot. Read More

Bonanza: The Wagon

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Denver Pyle, Salome Jens

Synopsis: When one of his prisoners escapes, sadistic prison-wagon boss Price Buchanan (Denver Pyle) abducts Hoss Cartwright and forces him to take the missing convict's place. Facing five years at hard labor, Hoss formulates an escape plan with another railroaded prisoner, Madge Tucker (Salome Jens). Read More

The Doris Day Show: Season 02

Actors: Doris Day, Denver Pyle, Philip Brown, Tod Starke, Naomi Stevens

Synopsis: Although The Doris Day Show has posted reasonably good ratings during its first season on the air, neither the star nor the producers felt that the format -- newly widowed city girl Doris Martin (Doris Day) and her two sons leading the simple life on the farm owned by Doris' bucolic uncle Buck Read More

Bandolero!

Actors: James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch, George Kennedy, Andrew Prine

Synopsis: James Stewart and Dean Martin are atypically cast as outlaws in Bandolero! The film begins as Dee Bishop (Martin) and his gang are about to be hanged. The Scripture-spouting executioner turns out to be Dee's brother Mace (Stewart), who helps the desperadoes escape. They are pursued by a sheriff (George Kennedy Read More

The Doris Day Show: Season 01

Actors: Doris Day, Denver Pyle, Fran Ryan, James Hampton, Philip Brown

Synopsis: Newly widowed Doris Martin (Doris Day) and her two sons Toby (Tod Starke) and Billy (Philip Brown) move into the farm owned by Doris' uncle Buck Webb (Denver Pyle) as The Doris Day Show launches its first season. Featured in the early episodes are James Hampton as Buck's versatile hired hand Read More

Bonanza: The Passing of a King

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Jeremy Slate

Synopsis: Taking advantage of the illness of his powerful rancher father Claude Roman (Denver Pyle), mean-spirited Jermey Roman (Jeremy Slate) runs roughshod over everyone. In addition to browbeating his sister Mary (Diane Muldaur) and reneging on a legitimate business deal with the Cartwrights, Jeremy also Read More

Five Card Stud

Actors: Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Inger Stevens, Roddy McDowall, Katherine Justice

Synopsis: Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum play deadly adversaries in this curious mixture of the western and mystery genres. During a poker game in Rincon, Colorado, a stranger in the game is lynched for cheating. One of the gamblers, Van Morgan (Dean Martin), tries to prevent the lynching but is rebuffed Read More

Bonnie and Clyde

Actors: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Gene Wilder

Synopsis: Producer/star Warren Beatty had to convince Warner Bros. to finance this film, which went on to become the studio's second-highest grosser. It also caused major controversy by redefining violence in cinema and casting its criminal protagonists as sympathetic anti-heroes. Based loosely on the true Read More

Welcome to Hard Times

Actors: Henry Fonda, Janice Rule, Keenan Wynn, Janis Paige, John Anderson, Warren Oates

Synopsis: Long before he scored with the epic Ragtime, novelist E.L. Doctorow wrote a minor novel upon which this stark 1967 film is based. It was adapted for the screen by veteran western director Burt Kennedy. In a forlorn town called Hard Times in the Old West, a cowardly mayor, Will Blue (Henry Fonda) Read More

Tammy and the Millionaire

Actors: Debbie Watson, Frank McGrath, Denver Pyle, George Furth, Donald Woods

Synopsis: In this drama, sweet and honest Tammy is hired as a secretary by a powerful industrialist with a handsome young son. Meanwhile a society dame is angered that the millionaire hired Tammy because she wanted her own girl to have a shot at the son. To ruin the new secretary's chances, the dame and her Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The Darling Fortune

Actors: Aneta Corsaut, Denver Pyle

Synopsis: Once again, the hillbilly Darling family storms into Mayberry. With a fortune in hand-nearly three hundred dollars, cash!-Briscoe Darling (Denver Pyle) has come to town looking for brides for his goonish sons. Acting upon an old mountain superstition, the boys all choose the first woman they see Read More

Mara of the Wilderness

Actors: Adam West, Linda Saunders, Theo Marcuse, Denver Pyle, Sean McClory

Synopsis: In this Alaskan adventure, kindly forest ranger Adam West endeavors to civilize a beautiful young girl who was raised by wolves after she saves him from a bear trap. Obstructing West's attempts are a greedy fellow who wants to sell her to a carnival. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Incident at Phantom Hill

Actors: Robert Fuller, Jocelyn Lane, Dan Duryea, Tom Simcox, Linden Chiles

Synopsis: In this western, set at the end of the Civil War, a group of rebels steal a million bucks from a Union shipment, and stash the gold in a cave near Phantom Hill, Texas. They are subsequently captured. The ring leader bargains with his captors offering to reveal the loot's location in exchange for Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Final Fadeout

Synopsis: Appropriately enough, the 271st and final episode of Perry Mason concerns a murder which takes place during the filming of a TV show. No sooner has Perry (Raymond Burr) been able to establish the innocence of chief suspect Jackson Sidemark (Denver Pyle) than Sidemark himself is knocked off by the Read More