Jerry Haynes

Jerry Haynes
Jerry Haynes, dressed as Mr. Peppermint, participating in Red River, New Mexico 4th of July parade
Born
Jerome Martin Haynes

(1927-01-31)January 31, 1927
Dallas, Texas, U.S.
DiedSeptember 26, 2011(2011-09-26) (aged 84)
Longview, Texas, U.S.
OccupationActor
Years active1961–2009
SpouseDoris
ChildrenGibby Haynes

Jerome Martin "Jerry" Haynes (January 31, 1927 – September 26, 2011) was an American actor from Dallas, Texas. He is most well known as Mr. Peppermint, a role he played for 30 years as the host of one of the longest-running local children's shows in television, the Dallas-based Mr. Peppermint (1961–1969), which was retitled Peppermint Place for its second run (1975–1996). He also had a long career in local and regional theater and appeared in more than 50 films. A 1944 graduate of Dallas' Woodrow Wilson High School,[1] he was the father of Butthole Surfers frontman Gibby Haynes.[2][3]

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  3. ^ "The Candy Man," by Joe Nick Patoski, Texas Monthly July 1996