Jerry Haynes

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Jerome Martin "Jerry" Haynes (January 31, 1927 – September 26, 2011), an American actor from Dallas, Texas, was born Jerome Martin "Jerry" Haynes (January 31, 1927 – September 26, 2011.

Mr. Peppermint, a character he played for 30 years as the host of one of television's longest-running children's shows, Mr. Peppermint (1961–1969), which was renamed Peppermint Place for its second run (1975–1996).

He worked in local and regional theater for a long time, and appeared in more than 50 films.

Gibby Haynes, a 1944 graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School, was the father of Butthole Surfers frontman Gibby Haynes.

Early life

Louise Schimmelpfennig Haynes and Fred Haynes were born in Dallas, Texas. Haynes was inducted into the Woodrow Wilson High School Hall of Fame in 1990. Jerry graduated from Southern Methodist University after attending Louisiana State University and Yale.

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Acting career

Haynes appeared in his first role in 1961, wearing a red-and-white stripe jacket and straw hat as well as a candy-striped magic cane. Mr. Peppermint's original show ran for nine years as a live show on WFAA-TV (Channel 8, the ABC affiliate of the Dallas Morning News), with Mr. Peppermint interacting with a variety of puppet characters and including everything from cartoons to French lessons.

Haynes was the first to announce the Kennedy assassination on local radio, as well as his WFAA program manager, Jay Watson, early in his show's run. The two men watched the Presidential motorcade pass on Main Street and then heard the deadly shots as the limousine turned onto Elm Street during lunch. The men were quickly located and interviewed eyewitnesses who were then on the air shortly after.

Mr. Peppermint first appeared at 7:30 a.m. and ran for one hour, but usually winning its time slot. However, national trends shifted, and the show was replaced by a talk show geared to the adult audience in 1970. Haynes joined the Channel 8 news team, focusing on sports (as he did for a few years before the Mr. Peppermint role) as well as sports director Verne Lundquist (later of CBS Sports fame), and Dallas Cowboys head football coach Tom Landry and their then-star quarterback Roger Staubach — all of whom appeared on television (in much the same "subpoena and polite manner) as his Mr. Peppermint himself). Haynes wrote about the Cowboys' home in Texas Stadium as it neared completion and prepared for its inaugural season in 1971.

Haynes wore the candy-striped suit once more, this time for a redesigned Peppermint Place, a taped half-hour kids' magazine-style service that still originates from the WFAA studios. The show lasted in that style for more than 20 years, eventually being syndicated to 108 markets around the country before finally ending in 1996.

The bulk of Haynes' film career was spent in made-for-television films, particularly those set in his hometown Texas. His first film appearance was in the 1981 docudrama Crisis at Central High School, which was about the integration of Little Rock's Central High School in Dallas. There are Texas-themed films in which he has appeared, including Houston: The Legend of Texas (1986), Evidence of Love (1990), Bonnie & Clyde: The True Story (1992), and It's in the Sea (1995).

Owen Bradley, Cline's main film performer, appeared in Places in the Heart, as Deputy Jack Driscoll, and in the 1985 Patsy Cline biopic Sweet Dreams as Deputy Jack Driscoll. He also appeared in RoboCop (1987) and Boys Don't Cry (1999).

In four documentary films discussing the Kennedy assassination of the Kennedy family (1989), Rush to Judgment (1989), and A New Look at the Zapruder Film (1998).

In 1996, the Lone Star Film & Television Awards given him a Lifetime Achievement Award. He appeared in the Red River, New Mexico, Fourth of July parade in a candy-striped Jeep.

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