Dale Critchlow is a Black Angus cattle farmer near Preston, ID, which served as the main setting for the film Napoleon Dynamite. Jared Hess, the director of the film, recruited Dale to play the role of Lyle, the gritty farmer with a certain way with animals and tribal artifacts.

Dale on IMDB

Lyle's most notable moments:

- "Nothing on here works smooth," grumbled Lyle right before blasting a cow point-blank with a shotgun in front of a schoolbus of children.



- During the delicious lunchbreak at the chicken farm, Lyle announces in his wonderful whining mumble, "Over there at the pigpen I found a couple of Shoshone arrowheads."