He played the mechanic Cooter Davenport on the hit television series before serving two terms as a Democratic congressman from Georgia.
He played the mechanic Cooter Davenport on the hit television series before serving two terms as a Democratic congressman from Georgia.
The actual duke boys turned out to be the IRL villains
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.
Uncle Jesse in real life invested heavy in oil projects and left an estate of over $5M.