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Remembering Rick Hurst, Beloved Character Actor and ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ Favorite

June 26, 2025 — Rick Hurst, the veteran character actor best known to generations of television fans as the lovable Deputy Cletus Hogg on The Dukes of Hazzard, has passed away. He was 79. Born on January 1, 1946, in Houston, Texas, Richard Douglas Hurst began his acting career in the late 1960s. He quickly … Read more