Larry Pennell Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Larry "Bud" Pennell (born February 21, 1928), aka Alessandro Pennelli, is an American television and film actor. Born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, he is mainly a supporting actor, best known for his role as "Dash Riprock," the conceited, image-conscious, and macho Hollywood movie star courting "Elly May Clampett" (played by Donna Douglas) in the hit television series The Beverly Hillbillies. Pennell started acting in 1955, as "Oliver Brown" in the movie Seven Angry Men, the low-budget movie about abolitionist John Brown, starring Raymond Massey. That role led him to a lead in Hell's... MORE

Larry "Bud" Pennell (born February 21, 1928), aka Alessandro Pennelli, is an American television and film actor. Born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, he is mainly a supporting actor, best known for his role as "Dash Riprock," the conceited, image-conscious, and macho Hollywood movie star courting "Elly May Clampett" (played by Donna Douglas) in the hit television series The Beverly Hillbillies. Pennell started acting in 1955, as "Oliver Brown" in the movie Seven Angry Men, the low-budget movie about abolitionist John Brown, starring Raymond Massey. That role led him to a lead in Hell's Horizon, with John Ireland and Hugh Beaumont, also in 1955. After a few small parts in movies he drifted between television and movie appearances. In 1959 he played opposite Jimmy Stewart (as "John Michael ('Chip') Hardesty") in the hit movie The FBI Story, in the role of "George Crandall". After 1959 he mainly stuck with television, making guest appearances in shows like Death Valley Days, The Outlaws, Sea Hunt, Wagon Train, The Big Valley, The Virginian, and Dragnet. In 1961 he was given a lead role in the television series Ripcord, an action/adventure series about skydiving, he co-starred, as "Ted LESS