He played the mechanic Cooter Davenport on the hit television series before serving two terms as a Democratic congressman from Georgia.
Ben Jones, ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ Actor and Congressman, Dies at 84
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/obituaries/ben-jones-dead.html
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ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 9 pts · 2d
I met him briefly in the late 90s. He came across as a good, honest-to-goodness man.
RIP.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
When i opened this I was expecting the worst and instead pleasantly surprised to not see how horrible of a person they were for once. Seems to be all I see whenever an older famous person dies anymore.
KC_Royalz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
The actual duke boys turned out to be the IRL villains
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1d
I thought it was Jon Schneider that was a villain, did Tom Wopat end up veering right too?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1d
Wopat was a drunk driver, coke head, assaulted a woman on set. He got off with no real consequences.
His excuse for two big bags of cocaine was that he used it infrequently thus it lasted a long time, thus he was not a dealer. Judge bought it.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1d
Uncle Jesse in real life invested heavy in oil projects and left an estate of over $5M.