Sign in Sign up

Acting

Denver Pyle

Career: Active from 1947 to 1997, with a break from 1984 to 1993, busiest in 1956 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 11
top three billing

Average score: 59/100

Highest rated: To Hell and Back
86/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 137 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Denver Pyle Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.3, average 5.4
Psychological
3.8, average 5.5
Uncanny
0.9, average 2.5
Cringe Humor
0.9, average 2.2

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

Classic Western 6
Historical Drama 4
Character-Driven 3
Historical Setting 3
Melancholy 2
Iconic Theme Song 2
Classic Sitcom 2
Family-Friendly 2
Slow Burn 2
Nostalgic 2
Heroic Protagonist 2
Revenge Plot 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

220

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1990s

5 titles · average score 62

The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!

58

as Uncle Jesse Duke

Cybill

69

TV show · as Denver Pyle (uncredited)

What a Cartoon!

79

TV show · as Podunk Possum (voice)

Father and Scout

39

as George Rosebrock

Maverick

67

as Old Gambler on Riverboat

1980s

7 titles · average score 67

Delta Fever

as Walt

L.A. Law

77

TV show · as Harold Nordoff

Return to Mayberry

67

as Briscoe Darling

Murder, She Wrote

76

TV show · as Eben Connors

The Dukes

50

TV show · as Uncle Jesse (voice)

Mercur: The Town that Can't Stay Dead

as Narrator

Legend of the Wild

as Narrator (Voice)

1970s

33 titles · average score 62

The Dukes of Hazzard

75

TV show · as Jesse Duke

How Bugs Bunny Won the West

as Narrator

Dallas

73

TV show · as Blackie Callahan

Legend of the Northwest

as Abner

Grizzly Adams

72

TV show · as Mad Jack

The Love Boat

53

TV show · as Eric Springer

The Adventures of Frontier Fremont

as Old mountain man

Guardian of the Wilderness

as Galen Clark

Barnaby Jones

70

TV show · as Stayley Kircher

The Waltons

65

TV show · as Cousin Homer Lee Baldwin

Mean Justice

as Tom Rawling

Cannon

67

TV show · as Sheriff Hogsett

1960s

47 titles · average score 65

The Doris Day Show

44

TV show · as Buck Webb

Bonnie and Clyde

83

as Frank Hamer

Tammy and the Millionaire

61

as Grandpa Mordecai Tarleton

The High Chaparral

71

TV show · as General Warren

Gunpoint

61

as Cap

Tammy

TV show · as Mordecai Tarleton

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

76

TV show · as Titus Purcell

Terrified

28

as Sheriff Dixon

The Virginian

70

TV show · as Pico Brown

The Dick Van Dyke Show

84

TV show · as Uncle George

The Andy Griffith Show

81

TV show · as Briscoe Darling

Thriller

74

TV show · as Ortho Wheeler

1950s

113 titles · average score 64

The Twilight Zone

91

TV show · as Stu Tillman

Bonanza

73

TV show · as Warden / Claude Roman

Cast a Long Shadow

63

as Preacher Harrison

Perry Mason

82

TV show · as Jackson Sidemark / Tilden Stuart

Wagon Train

71

TV show · as Bragg

Have Gun, Will Travel

78

TV show · as Advent / Pete Hollister

Please Murder Me

56

as Det. Lt. Bradley

I Killed Wild Bill Hickok

as Jim Bailey

7th Cavalry

54

as Dixon

To Hell and Back

86

as Thompson

Rage at Dawn

58

as Clint Reno

Lassie

64

TV show · as Mr. Madden

1940s

15 titles · average score 60

The Lone Ranger

48

TV show · as Vance Kiley / Arley McQueen

Too Late for Tears

84

as Young Man at Union Station (uncredited)

The Big Wheel

47

as Track Intern

El Paso

59

as Vigilante (uncredited)

Red Canyon

60

as Hutch

Rim of the Canyon

56

as Cash Collins (uncredited)

Hellfire

65

as Rex

Marshal of Amarillo

as The Night Clerk

The Man from Colorado

57

as Easy Jarrett / Easy Jarrett (uncredited)

Devil Ship

as Carl

Where the North Begins

as Jim Rockwell

The Guilt of Janet Ames

60

as Man in Opening Scene (uncredited)