She Played Daisy Duke on "The Dukes of Hazzard." See Catherine Bach at 67. — Best Life (2024)

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Chemistry. Catherine Bach's age distinction with her co-stars, Tom Wopat and John Schneider, was once a key issue in creating a believable on-screen chemistry between the 3 actors. Bach was 23 years previous when she used to be forged in "The Dukes of Hazzard," while Wopat and Schneider had been each in their early 30s ...

After the series ended, Bach had roles in a number of low-profile films. From 1992 to 1994, she starred in the Canadian family drama series, African Skies. In 2006, she guest-starred on Monk, and in 2010 had a small cameo in the comedy film You Again.

Catherine Bach is an American actress. She is known for playing Daisy Duke in the television series The Dukes of Hazzard and Margo Dutton in African Skies. In 2012, she joined the cast of the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless as Anita Lawson.

(WKRG/BIKER DAD) — March 1st has a special meaning for fans of the 80s show Dukes of Hazard. It's Catherine Bach's birthday. Bach, whose role as Daisy Duke is still legendary today, turns 67 on March 1, 2021.

Daisy's yellow 1974 Plymouth Road Runner lasted only the first 26 complete episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard (1979)'s 146 episodes. It was destroyed & replaced in the 27th, The Runaway (1980). The last 119 episodes, Daisy Duke drove the 1980 Jeep CJ7.

Her father had German ancestry and her mother had Mexican ancestry. Cut-off denim shorts are sometimes referred to as "Daisy Dukes" as often worn by her character Daisy Duke on the television series The Dukes of Hazzard (1979). Descended from the Verdugo family, one of California's earliest landed families.

The first several episodes of the series were filmed in Covington before production moved to California. The famous shot of the airborne General Lee, the Duke cousins' muscle car, was filmed at nearby Oxford College. Courtesy of Georgia Department of Economic Development.

In 2015, after Dylann Roof murdered nine Black congregants in a South Carolina church, TV Land, the only network airing the series at the time, took the show off the air. (It hasn't returned to broadcast TV since, but currently streams on Amazon.) The war over the General Lee has even pitted Duke against Duke.

Coy Duke (Byron Cherry) is another blonde-haired cousin who moves to Uncle Jesse's farm along with his cousin Vance after Bo and Luke left Hazzard to join the NASCAR circuit in season 5.

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In June 2015, TV Land announced it would pull reruns of the series from its lineup because of controversy surrounding the flag atop the Dukes' car. Warner Brothers also announced it would no longer sell products featuring the Confederate flag — including "Dukes of Hazzard" merchandise.

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After Dukes of Hazzard ended, she appeared on a few shows including Monk and Hawaii Five-O. She hasn't worked since before the pandemic so hopefully, we will see her in something soon! She recently reunited with Wopat and Schneider at the 2023 Gallatin Comic Con in Tennessee.

Status Quo Is God: At the end of the episode Enos is cleared but Daisy still intends to go through with the wedding. However, Enos breaks out in hives (he says this always happens when something good happens to him) so they postpone the wedding indefinitely — or at least until the Reunion Show.

Catherine Bach's age difference with her co-stars, Tom Wopat and John Schneider, was a key factor in creating a believable on-screen chemistry between the three actors. Bach was 23 years old when she was cast in "The Dukes of Hazzard," while Wopat and Schneider were both in their early 30s.

It was Jessica Simpson Vs Britney Spears in the audition room battle of the blonde pop stars. Both were desperate to play Daisy Duke, but just one would be selected to slip into a skimpy pair of denim shorts and star in the Hollywood re-make of the 1970-80s hit TV show, The Dukes of Hazzard. Simpson, of course, won.

Guns'n'Roses front man Axl Rose made Daisy Duke jean shorts cool for men to wear and appealing for women to look at through the high point of '90s slacker rock.

April Scott: Daisy Duke.