Played by Tom Wopat in the original TV series, Luke is main protagonist of the show, he is dark-haired, older cousin to the character Bo Duke.

[3] Actor Randy Wayne played Luke in the prequel television film, The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning.

[4][5] He was invited to read for the part after a CBS casting agent remembered seeing him in an off-Broadway musical, A Bistro Car on the CNR.

[1] Luke and his younger cousin Bo Duke live in an unincorporated area of the fictional Hazzard County, in Georgia.

Luke's famous "hood slide" (as seen in the opening credits, originating from the second episode, "Daisy's Song") is the trick most commonly associated with the character.

[1] In the pilot episode of the series, Bo commented that Luke was probably the father of at least two of the children who live at the Hazzard County Orphanage.

During training in Montana, he met and fell in love with a woman named Anita Blackwell, who was a talented singer.