article_snippet.sent: I laughed and learned more from Jimmie in one hour than from anyone else in a whole year," co-star John Schneider, who played Bo Duke, said on Twitter.
article_snippet.sent: Best served in the Army during World War II before launching his acting career.
article_snippet.sent: In the 1950s and 1960s, his accumulated scores of credits, playing a range of colorful supporting characters in such TV shows as "The Twilight Zone," "Bonanza," "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Gunsmoke.
article_snippet.sent: " his later appeared in a handful of Burt Reynolds' movies, including "Hooper" and "The End.
article_snippet.sent: Jimmie was my teacher, mentor, close friend and collaborator for 26 years," Latshaw said.
article_snippet.sent: I directed two of his feature films, including the recent 'Return of the Killer Shrews,' a sequel his co-wrote and was quite proud of as his had made the first one more than 50 years earlier.