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Rick Hurst Dies: ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ & ‘Steel Magnolias’ Actor Was 79
Rick Hurst, the actor known for playing Deputy Cletus Hogg on 'The Dukes of Hazzard', has died. He was 79.
I don’t know about y’all but I believe in an afterlife, and I can see Rick up there in Heaven with Jimmy Best and Sorrell Booke and Denver Pyle, putting on the funniest show inside those Pearly Gates. Born Jan. 1, 1946 in Houston, Hurst had several TV roles on Sanford and Son, The Partridge Family, Gunsmoke, Happy Days, Little House on the Prairie, The Six Million Dollar Man and M*A*S*H throughout the ’70s before landing the part of Boss Hogg’s cousin on The Dukes of Hazzard. Hurst has also appeared in shows like Murder She Wrote, 227, The Wonder Years, Family Matters and Melrose Place, as well as movies like Earth Girls Are Easy(1988), The Karate Kid Part III(1989), Steel Magnolias(1989), Anywhere But Here(1999).
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