Willard "Digger" Barnes is a fictional character in the popular American television series, Dallas, played by David Wayne (1978), Keenan Wynn (1979-1980), and David Marshall Grant in Dallas: The Early Years. As the patriarch of the Barnes family, Digger Barnes was the father of Cliff Barnes and Pamela Barnes Ewing. Digger shocked Pamela on his deathbed by revealing that Hutch McKinney was her biological father but, that he had always loved her as though she were his own.