Willard "Digger" Barnes is a fictional character in the popular American television series Dallas created by David Jacobs. Digger was played by actors David Wayne, Keenan Wynn, and (as a younger man) David Marshall Grant. As the patriarch of the Barnes family, Digger was the father of Cliff Barnes and step-father Pam Ewing. Digger shocked Pamela on his deathbed by revealing that Hutch McKinney was her father but that he had always loved her as though she were his own.