Dennis Fimple

Dennis Fimple

Nascimento : 1940-11-11, Taft, California, U.S.

Morte : 2002-08-23

História

He appeared in a variety of TV shows including Here Come the Brides, Petticoat Junction, Matt Houston, M*A*S*H, Centennial, Simon & Simon, Highway to Heaven, Sledge Hammer!, Knight Rider, Quantum Leap and ER. He also had roles in films such as Truck Stop Women (1974), The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975), Mackintosh and T.J. (1975), Stay Hungry (1976), King Kong (1976), The Shadow of Chikara (1977), Goin' South (1978), The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch (1982) and Maverick (1994), and shared the lead in Bootleggers (1974) and Creature from Black Lake (1976). His most popular role was that of the lovable but none-too-bright Devil's Hole Gang member, Kyle Murtry, on the ABC comedy/western series, Alias Smith and Jones, starring Pete Duel and Ben Murphy. Fimple appeared in seven episodes and remains a favorite of fans of the series. In 1993-1994, he appeared as Garral in seven episodes of the Beau Bridges/Lloyd Bridges comedy/western series Harts of the West on CBS. His last role was in the 2003 Rob Zombie horror film, House of 1000 Corpses, as the foul-mouthed Grandpa Hugo. Fimple was born in Taft, California, the son of Dolly and Elmer Fimple.[1] He graduated from Taft Union High School in 1958.[2] He died in Frazier Park, California in August 2002 from a car accident.

Perfil

Dennis Fimple

Filmes

A Casa dos 1000 Cadáveres
In Memory Of
Na década de 70, dois casais estão fazendo uma viagem em busca de diversão. Ao parar em uma loja de horrores na beira de uma estrada, eles conhecem a história do Dr. Satan (Walter Phelan), um famoso médico que matava suas vítimas aos poucos. Dr. Satan foi preso e enforcado, mas nunca encontraram seu corpo. Animados com a história, os jovens decidem visitar a árvore onde Dr. Satan foi enforcado para tentar descobrir onde está seu corpo atualmente.
A Casa dos 1000 Cadáveres
Grandpa Hugo Firefly
Na década de 70, dois casais estão fazendo uma viagem em busca de diversão. Ao parar em uma loja de horrores na beira de uma estrada, eles conhecem a história do Dr. Satan (Walter Phelan), um famoso médico que matava suas vítimas aos poucos. Dr. Satan foi preso e enforcado, mas nunca encontraram seu corpo. Animados com a história, os jovens decidem visitar a árvore onde Dr. Satan foi enforcado para tentar descobrir onde está seu corpo atualmente.
Por Água Abaixo
Fisherman
O veterano comandante John Dodge nunca será um oficial cumpridor das normas, mas ele é um marinheiro brilhante que sempre desejou comandar um submarino nuclear. Ao invés disso, ele recebe a missão de comandar o Stingray, um submarino movido a diesel, que sobreviveu à 2ª Guerra Mundial, cuja tripulação é uma coleção de desajustados e incompetentes. Para coroar essa missão, Dodge recebe ordens de atacar os melhores da Marinha norte-americana em um crucial jogo de Guerra.
Maverick
Stuttering
Em meio à uma série de aventuras, o inveterado jogador de pôquer Bret Maverick (Mel Gibson) tenta arrumar os três mil dólares que lhe faltam para participar de um jogo milionário em uma barca do Mississipi, no qual o vencedor vai receber meio milhão de dólares. Para entrar neste jogo poderoso, ele vai juntar forças com uma interessante e misteriosa jogadora.
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Straw Hat
H.D. Dalton is a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns home to discover things have drastically changed -- the family farm has been abandoned, his old girlfriend Jolie is a now a widowed mother, and his sister Cheryl has put his father in a nursing home.
Death Falls
Griff
A terminally ill man gets his buddy to bust him out of the hospital. But, in the process, the duo antagonizes a city policeman, who trails them to the boonies surrounding their hometown. The local sheriff and their lady friend (who think more kindly of the pair) strive to find the fugitives before the less-compassionate posse, which includes a deranged, rifle-toting foe of the two. Written by Kim Williams, IMDb.
O Gigante da Montanha
Henderson (Townsman)
Um gigante recluso que vive em Thunder Mountain é falsamente acusado e perseguido por pessoas de uma pequena cidade da fronteira ocidental por sequestrar três crianças da cidade.
Hawken's Breed
Crowley
Hawken is a rugged drifter and loner who meets and comes to rescue a young Shawnee woman, named Spirit in 1840s Tennessee, whom he leaves after saving her from a rouge group of Shawnee Indians. After taking up residence with an old fur trapper and old friend named Jeb Kline, Hawken later meets Spirit again whom runs away from a local fur trader named Tackett, whom she is sold to. Soon, Hawken is up against Tackett and a posse of hired killers, as well as a greedy and racist land owner, named Hickman, who's long abused son Noel whom narrates the entire story, comes to his and Spirit's aid to help them survive.
Body Slam
Elmo
M. Harry Smilac is a down-on-his-luck music manager who is having a hard time attracting talent and booking gigs for his band, Kicks (The most recent of the gigs is a Dairy Queen opening!!). When making arrangements for a campaign fund-raiser, he mistakes Rick Roberts, a professional wrestler, for a musician and hires him. At that moment he becomes a wrestling manager and starts to book matches for him and his teammate Tonga Tom. The team is a success, and Harry decides to take his wrestlers and his band on a "Rock n' Wrestling" tour. The tour is a success, and Harry feels what it is like to be a winner again.
A Summer to Remember
Smitty
Silent since losing his hearing to meningitis, young Toby Wyler takes a bitter stance against the world and his family, refusing to accept his new stepfather. But when a highly trained orangutan named Casey is thrown from a truck near Toby's home, the boy soon has a secret friend he can communicate with via sign language.
Armas e Amores aka Segundo Turno
Rupert George
A Segunda Guerra Mundial vista pela ótica dos trabalhadores de uma fábrica de implementos de guerra. Duas mulheres e um trumpetista, todos três sem nenhuma experiência neste tipo de trabalho, vivem dias de grande aventura longe do front.
The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch
Lamont
It's quiet in Chastity Gulch, a small town in the Wild West. The men of the village are all in the army and fight their battles far away. The women are getting very bored! At once a bunch of robbers drops into the saloon. They love the beer but are also looking for beautiful women. Will the town whores keep these delightful men for themselves or will the doctor's wife and the mayor's wife also get a part of the fun?
Of Mice and Men
Whit
George and Lenny travel through the Depression-era west working at odd jobs, hoping to make enough money to buy their own farm. George must always watch over his intellectually disabled friend, and keep him out of danger, both to himself and to others. After they take a new job at a ranch, Lenny gets into far more trouble than George can talk his way out of, leaving George to decide whether to help him, or leave him to his fate.
The $5.20 an Hour Dream
Aiken
A debt-ridden divorced mother and factory worker strives to get a higher-paying job on the traditionally all-male main assembly line.
The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
Blackface / Charlie Bright
A light-hearted view of the Dalton Gang's legendary raid on Coffeyville, Kansas and the years leading up to it as the brothers form themselves into a gang of horse thieves and train and bank robbers with their arch enemy, Detective Will Smith, constantly on their heels.
The Evictors
Mr. Bumford
In the 1940s, a young couple moves into a remote house near a small town in Louisiana. The house has a history of violence that seems to be repeating itself…
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Lem
Dewey and Wallace are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as prison inmates to find out where a gang of thieves have hidden their loot. While they're undercover, however, the governor dies, and because no one else knows about the ruse Dewey and Wallace are stranded in prison.
Smokey and the Good Time Outlaws
The Salt Flat Kid
Two guys come to Nashville and try to make it on the country music scene. Their vision is to play at the Grand IL' Opry. Rejection after rejection pushes them to the verge of quitting and moving back to wherever they came from.
Com a Corda no Pescoço
Hangman
Henry Moon (Jack Nicholson) é capturado enquanto tentava chegar ao México e acaba sendo levado para a forca. O único jeito de escapar da morte certa é casando-se com alguém. Henry consegue uma moça e acaba sendo perdoado de seus crimes, porém, ele deve agora tentar encarar um relacionamento de verdade.
B.J. and the Bear
Second Deputy
In this pilot film, B.J. McKay, a guitar-playing independent trucker who travels with a fun-loving chimpanzee named Bear, finds himself caught up with a bunch of young women trying to flee a white slaver who happens to be the local sheriff.
The Shadow of Chikara
Posey
Confederate veterans of the last battle of the Civil War set out to find a hidden treasure.
King Kong
Sunfish
Uma expedição de exploração de petróleo chega a uma ilha isolada e encontra um colossal gorila gigante.
The Wackiest Wagon Train In The West
McGirk
This comical western chronicles the silly adventures of a bumbling wagonmaster and his clutzy assistant as they attempt to take seven passengers across the prairie. Among the passengers are two wealthy Bostonians, an aspiring showgirl, a teacher, and bachelor. The story is adapted from Dusty's Trail, a television sitcom.
O Guarda-Costas
Bubba
É um filme de comédia dramática de 1976, dirigido por Bob Rafelson, com roteiro de Charles Gaines (adaptado de sua novela de 1972 de mesmo nome). A história centra-se em um jovem de Birmingham (Alabama), interpretado por Jeff Bridges, que está envolvido em um acordo desonesto. A fim de fechar o acordo, ele precisa comprar uma academia para completar um lote multi-parcelado. Quando ele visita a academia, no entanto, vê que está romanticamente interessado na recepcionista (Sally Field) e esboça um estilo de vida despreocupado, como o do fisiculturista austríaco "Joe Santo" (Arnold Schwarzenegger) que está treinando para a competição de Mr. Universo.
Creature from Black Lake
Pahoo
Two men exploring the Louisiana swamps run into a Bigfoot-type creature.
Mackintosh and T.J.
Schuster
Roy is a ranch hand and a drifter. He takes a young man into his care and helps him to grow up.
A Vingança do Falcão
Scoby
Smallpox plagues Chief Winterhawk's tribe. He seeks cure from the white men, who in turn, in fear of getting the smallpox, kill two of his companions. Winterhawk comes back to kidnap a girl and her brother from the white men's settlement, and thus begins the chase...
A Gangue da Tortinha de Maça
Rudy Hooks
No século XIX, três irmãos orfãos são forçados a ficar com o solteirão convicto Russel Donovan (Bill Bixby) em uma cidade. Após um terremoto, eles descobrem uma grande pepita de ouro que vale milhões de dólares. Porém, a riqueza está criando mais problemas do que soluções, portanto, eles "aceitam dar" o ouro para dois ladrão, sendo que a única forma deles conseguirem a pepita é tirá-la do cofre do banco onde está em segurança.
You and Me
A young boy and a biker become friends on the road.
White House Madness
Bob Haldeman
The Nixon Administration falls apart in a farcical manner in the time of the Watergate Scandal.
The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe
Farron
Poe's fiance, Lenore, falls into a coma and is taken for dead. She is rescued at the last possible moment from being buried alive, but the experience has driven her insane. On the advice of his friend, Dr. Forrest, Poe commits Lenore to the asylum run by Dr. Grimaldi. On a visit to the asylum, Poe and Forrest sense that something strange is going on, and decide to sneak back in after dark and investigate.
Bootleggers
Dewey Crenshaw
A bunch of bootleggers run booze in the South.
Truck Stop Women
Curly
A mother and daughter who run a brothel for truckers fight back when the Mafia tries to take over their operation.
Honky Tonk
In the wild west con-man 'Candy' Johnson heads to Nevada to set up his own gambling den and teams up with Lucy Cotton, a young woman he meets there. This failed television pilot film is loosely based on Honky Tonk (1941), which starred Clark Gable.
The Culpepper Cattle Co.
Wounded Man in Bar
Working as an assistant on a long cattle drive, the young Ben Mockridge contends between his dream of being a cowboy and the harsh truth of the Old West.
Summertree
Shelly
Jerry, not a member of the 'protest generation' but is instead, an 'All American boy,' is drafted into the Army, just as things begin to go well for him. He decision to flee to Canada sparks off conflict with his parents, ending in the film's conclusion - in Vietnam.
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
Hotel clerk
An alcoholic drifter decides to run for sheriff in a small town. However, in order to get elected, he must find out who killed a visiting preacher.