He played the mechanic Cooter Davenport on the hit television series before serving two terms as a Democratic congressman from Georgia.
I met him briefly in the late 90s. He came across as a good, honest-to-goodness man.
RIP.
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.
The actual duke boys turned out to be the IRL villains
Uncle Jesse in real life invested heavy in oil projects and left an estate of over $5M.
I thought it was Jon Schneider that was a villain, did Tom Wopat end up veering right too?
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.
