Talk:Denver Pyle

message: i understand this is almost still a stub, and i'm glad somebody put it together, but right now it seems that the guadalcanal controversy, a semi-meaningless blip (IMO), overshadows his accomplishments. would anybody mind if we put that on a back burner, or minimized it somehow until more text is added to offset that subject? SaltyPig 09:09, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: here's the material i removed for now: "Denver Pyle would claim in later life that he was a Navy veteran, who had been wounded in action at Guadalcanal, however the National Personnel Records Center stated in 1991 that there was no evidence that Denver Pyle had ever served on active duty in the United States Navy.  Denver Pyle’s statements were not resolved prior to his death, and his exact status of military service remains unclear to this day." SaltyPig 04:10, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: balance

message: Is some of the information mentioned below really necessary? The attempts to expand the article is good, but to state where his grave is, what happened to his presents and the additional facts about his family when the article is about Denver Pyle seems unwarranted/petty/trivial. Just my thoughts, it's really no big deal if it stays or goes. Only an observation mostly. Additionally (and I know I could fix this), his tenure on The Andy Griffith Show is mentioned twice. 69.129.170.102 (talk) 04:35, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Personal life

message: His obituary states he was in the U.S. Navy and he is listed in the U.S. Military BIRLS Death File. He WAS in the Navy.
The "Index Record for Denver Pyle (1920) Veterans Affairs Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem Death File", in the Fold3 by Ancestry.com website has limited info as follows: Full Name: Denver Pyle, Birth Date: 11 May 1920, Death Date: 25 Dec 1997, Cause of Death: Unknown
Conflict Period: Other Service, Served for: United States of America. I could not find any "WWII Navy Muster Rolls" in Fold3 listing Denver Pyle. 
In a keyword search with "Denver Pyle" "navy" with dates 1941 - 1950 in Newspapers.com produced no mentions that I could find that Denver Pyle served in the navy. Same with "Denver Pyle" "merchant marine".
In the article "Everybody's Seen Ol' Denver Pyle" by Emery Wister in The Charlotte News Green Section on February 1, 1969, page 1C, it says, "I was a Navy cadet in the war," he recalled. 'Funny, I was classified 4-F. So the next day I went down and passed the Navy test.' The article also said, "Pyle was on a training ship and described the two years as 'the longest training cruise in history.' The Navy finally gave him a medical discharge."
In the article "A Coloradan from Bethune" by Clason Kyle in the Sunday Ledger-Enquirer Magazine on October 5, 1969, page 14, it says, "–before enlisting in the Navy, 'I was wounded in action off Guadalcanal, and received a medical discharge in 1942,' he said".
===Merchant Marines===
There are no reliable sources found as of yet that state he was in a war zone while a Merchant Marine or had a role in the war while in the Merchant Marines. More specifically, the sources do not establish defining role in World War II while serving in the Merchant Marines. Accordingly, "Category:United States Merchant Mariners of World War II" is removed until a defining role is established.
Semper fi! FieldMarine (talk) 12:25, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: U.S. Navy

message: There are no reliable sources found as of yet that state he was in a war zone while a Merchant Marine or had a role in the war while in the Merchant Marines. More specifically, the sources do not establish defining role in World War II while serving in the Merchant Marines. Accordingly, "Category:United States Merchant Mariners of World War II" is removed until a defining role is established.
Semper fi! FieldMarine (talk) 12:25, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Merchant Marines

message: The article stated that Pyle's character in John Wayne's "The Alamo" was called "the Gambler."  Actually, the character's name was "Thimblerig."  A thimble-rigger was someone who ran a con game using thimbles - similar to the "shell game."76.4.66.18 (talk) 21:23, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Pyle's role in "The Alamo"....

message: mr pyle also did several Have gun will travel episodes  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.12.89.55 (talk) 06:36, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: tv guest star

message: I removed the following three apparently bogus (?) wives from "Personal life" section and replaced them with his two actual wives cited in 1997 NY Times obituary and Marilee Carpenter Pyle's 2010 LA Times obit.
Denver married his first wife Betty O'Brian (1919–1987) on July 4, 1942. They had a son David Matthew Pyle (born September 16, 1945) and a daughter Margaret Maude Catalano (née Pyle; born March 1949). Denver and Betty divorced on January 9, 1957. 
Denver married his second wife Lucille Martino (1916–1986) on December 11, 1957. Denver had two stepsons via this marriage. Denver and Lucille divorced on July 27, 1963.
 
Denver married his third wife Loretta Weston (1958-) on September 5, 1983. They had one son Triston Jackson Pyle (born June 1986). They were married until Pyle's death.
-- Boyajian (talk) 21:27, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Bogus wife removal

message: I believe there was also a cartoon that he did a voice over for in the 80's when he played a large dog looking after some puppies, but I do not remember the name of it.
I remember him saying "Hold on pup I'm a comin'" when he went to save them  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:C440:390:C112:DA4A:5D89:F818 (talk) 15:44, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Denver Pyle

message: He was one of the bad guys on hoppalong Cassidy first aired  Jan 29 1954 .
Shown recently as season 2 episode 17 of the hoppy tv show . 2601:18A:C400:5FC0:418D:EAAA:9CB0:220E (talk) 06:09, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Denver Pyle

message: his most famous role was Uncle Jesse on The dukes of Hazzard, yet there's only one sentence about that in the main article. 71.176.222.55 (talk) 14:38, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Almost no info on Uncle Jesse role