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Duration | 1978–80, 1986 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Created by | David Jacobs | ||||||||||||||||||||
Spin-off appearances | Dallas: The Early Years | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Willard "Digger" Barnes is a character in the popular American television series Dallas created by David Jacobs. Digger was played by actors David Wayne and Keenan Wynn in the show's first three seasons from 1978 to 1980, and as a young man by David Marshall Grant in the made-for-TV movie prequel The Early Years in 1986. As the patriarch of the Barnes family, Digger was the father of Cliff Barnes and step-father of Pam Ewing. Digger shocked Pamela on his deathbed by revealing that Hutch McKinney was her father but that he had always loved her as though she were his own.