Jerry Haynes

Jerry Haynes was an American actor from Dallas, Texas, best known for playing Mr. Peppermint on a Dallas children's television program. He took on the character in 1961 at WFAA, wearing a striped jacket and straw hat and sharing the screen with puppets. The original run ended in 1969, and the show returned in 1975 as Peppermint Place, a taped half-hour program that reached 108 markets before it finished in 1996. Haynes also worked extensively in regional and local stage productions and made more than fifty movies. Most of his film work was in television movies with Texas settings, including Houston: The Legend of Texas and A Killing in a Small Town. On the big screen he played Deputy Jack Driscoll in Places in the Heart (1984), Owen Bradley in Sweet Dreams (1985), and minor parts in RoboCop and Boys Don't Cry (1999). The Lone Star Film and Television Awards gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996.