Ben Jones, the actor who portrayed the beloved mechanic Cooter Davenport on the CBS action series The Dukes of Hazzard, has passed away at the age of 84. He died from a "massive heart attack" at his home while preparing to watch a baseball game on TV.
Ben Jones was born on August 30, 1941, in Tarboro, North Carolina, and grew up in Portsmouth, Virginia, where his father worked for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. Jones began acting at a young age, and his passion for the craft led him to attend East Carolina College and later the University of North Carolina, where he majored in radio, television, and motion pictures.