- Andy Griffith
Andy Samuel Griffith (born June 1, 1926) is a Tony Award-nominated and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, producer, writer, director and Grammy Award-winning southern gospel singer. He gained prominence in the starring role of "A Face in the Crowd," before he was better known for his starring roles, playing the title characters in the long-running 1960s sitcom, "The Andy Griffith Show", for CBS and in the long-running 1980s and 1990s legal drama, … - Andy Samuel Griffith
Andy Griffith is best known for his starring roles in two very popular TV series, "The Andy Griffith Show" (1960) and "Matlock" (1986). Griffith earned a degree in music from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the 1950s he became a regular on the Ed Sullivan Show and the Steve Allen Show. He was featured in the Broadway play "No Time for Sergeants" (1955) for which he received a Tony nomination, and he later appeared in the film version. His film debut... - Don Knotts
Jesse Donald Knotts (July 21 1924 - February 24 2006) was an American comedic actor best known for his portrayal of Barney Fife on the 1960s television sitcom "The Andy Griffith Show" (a role which earned him five Emmy Awards), and as landlord Ralph Furley on the television sitcom "Three's Company". He also appeared opposite Tim Conway in a number of comedy films aimed at children. - Ron Howard
Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954 in Duncan, Oklahoma) is a American actor, film director, and producer, primarily for his roles on sitcoms, movies and television, who came to prominence in the 1960s as Andy Griffith's son, Opie Taylor, on "The Andy Griffith Show", and later as Tom Bosley's son & Henry Winkler's best friend, Richie Cunningham, on "Happy Days" (a role he played from 1974 to 1980). - Danny Thomas
Danny Thomas (January 6 1914 - February 6 1991) was an American nightclub comedian and television and film actor, best known for starring in the television sitcom "Make Room for Daddy", later retitled "The Danny Thomas Show" to capitalize on Thomas's popularity. Danny Thomas was born Amos Alphonsus Muzyad Yaqoob in Deerfield, Michigan, to Charles and Margaret Jacobs. He was of Lebanese descent, of Maronite Catholic belief. - Earle Hagen
Earle H. Hagen (born July 9 1919) is a 20th century American composer. He created much music for movies and television and is well remembered for co-writing & whistling the melody of the main theme to "The Andy Griffith Show" (The Fishin' Hole), and "Harlem Nocturne", later used as the theme to "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer". He also co-wrote the theme song to Tim Conway's short-lived Western comedy, "Rango". - Jim Nabors
James Thurston "Jim" Nabors to Fred and Mavis Nabors, is an American actor, singer, and comedian. He is best known for his portrayal of the good-hearted but naïve Gomer Pyle on two highly successful 1960s sitcoms, "The Andy Griffith Show" and its spinoff "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.". Given his goofy demeanor and high-pitched voice on both "Andy Griffith" and "Gomer Pyle", … - Frances Bavier
Frances Bavier (December 14, 1902 - December 6, 1989) was an Emmy Award winning American character actress, best remembered for her role as Aunt Bee on "The Andy Griffith Show" in the 1960s. She played the same role on "Mayberry R.F.D."(1968-70). A convincing actress, nobody seemed to notice or care that the New York-born Bavier did not speak with a Southern accent, as some of the other characters did. - Howard McNear
Howard T. McNear (January 27, 1905 - January 3, 1969) was an American film, television and radio character actor. McNear was born in Los Angeles, California to Luzetta M. Spencer and Franklin E. McNear. He died in the San Fernando Valley from the effects of a stroke. He was best known for his performance as Floyd Lawson on "The Andy Griffith Show". The role was played through the years to adapt to his initial stroke. - George Lindsey
George Lindsey (born December 17, 1935) is an American character actor. Born in Jasper, Alabama, near Birmingham, Lindsey graduated from Florence State College with a Bachelor of Bioscience. Before moving to Los Angeles, he was a public high school teacher in Madison County, Alabama. In 1964, he got his big break as the slow-witted but kindly hick "Goober Beasley" on the now legendary "The Andy Griffith Show". - Hal Smith
Harold John "Hal" Smith (August 24, 1916 - January 28, 1994) was an American character actor and voice-over artist. - Howard Morris
Howard Morris (September 4, 1919 - May 21, 2005) was an American comic actor and director. - Bill Bixby
Bill Bixby was a popular three-time Emmy Award-nominated American film and television actor, director and frequent game show panelist. His career spanned over three decades, appearing on stage, in motion pictures and starring in five TV series. His lead television roles were as Ray Walston's young reporter, Tim O'Hara, … - Allan Melvin
Allan Melvin (born February 18, 1922) is an American actor with a long history of sitcom and voice-over work. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Melvin began his career on television as a prolific character actor in the 1950s. He often played a slightly loud, occasionally abrasive, but generally friendly second banana. TV fans of this era usually remember him best as Corporal Henshaw, Sergeant Bilko's right hand man on "The Phil Silvers Show". - Betty Lynn
Betty Lynn (Born August 29 1926 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American television actress. She is best known for playing Thelma Lou (Barney Fife's girlfriend) in "The Andy Griffith Show". In 2006, Betty Lynn relocated to Mount Airy, NC, the town on which Mayberry was based and the actual birthplace of Andy Griffith. - Aneta Corsaut
Aneta Corsaut (b. November 3 1933, Hutchinson, Kansas - d. November 6 1995, Studio City, California) was an American television actress. She is best known for playing Helen Crump on "The Andy Griffith Show". Corsaut also appeared in several episodes of "Matlock (television series)", a later show also starring Andy Griffith. She and Steve McQueen both had their film debuts in the 1958 film, … - Elinor Donahue
Elinor Donahue (born April 19, 1937, in Tacoma, Washington) is an American actress. She was born Mary Eleanor Donahue. Her mother, a theatrical costumer, moonlighted as a department store saleswoman in order to pay for her daughter's dancing lessons. Appearing in dancing-chorus film roles from the age of five, Donahue was at one point a ballet-school classmate of future Fred Astaire partner Barrie Chase. - Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson (May 16, 1931 - September 16, 1994) Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was an American television actor best remembered for the character Howard Sprague in "The Andy Griffith Show" and its spin-off "Mayberry R.F.D." Andy Griffith hired him for the Howard role after seeing him on Broadway in 1964's, "Hughie". Dodson also appeared in episodes of "My Friend Flicka", "Maude", "Barney Miller", "Archie Bunker's Place", "Newhart", "Matlock", … - Clint Howard
Clinton E. Howard (born April 20, 1959) is an American film and television actor. - Aaron Ruben
Aaron Ruben was an American television director known for "The Andy Griffith Show" (1960) "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C." (1964) and "Sanford and Son" (1972). Ruben started his TV producing and directing career in 1954 when he directed the TV series of "Caesar's Hour" (1954). He then directed "The Phil Silvers Show" (1955) and "Keep in Step" (1959). And then he started producing on "The Andy Griffith Show" (1960), "Gomer Pyle, … - Ken Berry
Kenneth Ronald "Ken" Berry (born November 3, 1933, in Moline, Illinois) is an American dancer, and comedic actor. Berry, like Dan Dailey ("The Governor and JJ") and Buddy Ebsen ("The Beverly Hillbillies"), began his career as a dancer and went on to star in 1960s sitcoms. While in the Army, Berry made his television debut on Arlene Francis' "Soldier Parade". - Hope Summers
Hope Summers was a character actress best-known for her work on "The Andy Griffith Show". Her year of birth has also been given as 1900 and 1901. She was born in Mattoon, Illinois. A regional actress who had often performed in one-woman shows, Summers was past 50 when she came to Hollywood to begin her career as a character player. She made her television debut in 1951 on the series "Hawkin Falls, … - Denver Pyle
Denver Dell Pyle was an American film and television actor. - Jack Burns
Jack Burns (born November 15, 1933) is an American comedian. He launched his career as part of a short-lived double act with George Carlin. Longer lasting was a later teaming with Avery Schreiber, who he met when they were both members of The Second City. Burns and Schreiber were best known for a series of routines in which Burns played a talkative taxicab passenger, with Schreiber as the driver. - Rance Howard
Rance Howard (born Harold Rance Beckenholdt) (born November 17, 1928 in Oklahoma) is an American actor who has starred in film and on television. He has made appearances in over 100 films. Howard married actress Jean Speegle Howard (b. January 31 1927 in Duncan, Oklahoma, d. September 2 2000 in Burbank, California) in 1949. They were the parents of director Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard. He is also the grandfather of actress Bryce Dallas Howard. - Parley Baer
Parley Baer (5 August 1914 - 22 November 2002) was an American character actor in film, television, and radio. - Bernard Fox
Bernard M. Fox (born 11 May, 1927) is a Welsh-born British film and television actor. - James Best
James Best (born July 26, 1926, in Powderly, Kentucky) is an American character actor best known for his role as bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in the television series "The Dukes of Hazzard". He has two daughters, Janeen and Jojami, as well as a son named Gary. Best was born Jewel Guy in Powderly, Kentucky in 1926. After his mother died in 1929, he was sent to live in an orphanage. - Harvey Bullock
Harvey Bullock (born June 4, 1921 in Oxford, North Carolina - April 23, 2006) was an American television and film writer and producer. His work with R.S. Allen included episodes for "The Andy Griffith Show", "Hogan's Heroes", "Love, American Style", and "Alice" along with the films "Who's Minding the Mint", "With Six You Get Eggroll" and "Girl Happy". He graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts in English. - William Christopher
William Christopher (born October 20, 1932) is an American actor who is best known for playing Father Mulcahy on the television series "M*A*S*H" and Private Lester Hummel on "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C." - Maggie Peterson
Maggie Peterson (Born 10 January 1941 in Greeley, Colorado) is an American television actress. She is best known for playing Charlene Darling on "The Andy Griffith Show". - Gavin MacLeod
Gavin MacLeod is best known for his 10 years as Captain Stubing in ABC's smash-hit series The Love Boat . Gavin also spent seven happy years costarring in the award-winning television series The Mary Tyler Moore Show . As Murray Slaughter , the acid-tongued news writer, he was nominated twice by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as best actor in a comedy series. - Paul Henning
Paul Henning (September 16, 1911 - March 25, 2005) was an American producer and writer, most famous for the successful sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies", but was crucial in the development of several "rural" comedies for CBS. Henning was born on a farm and grew up in Independence, Missouri. While working in a drugstore as a teenager, he met future President Harry S. Truman, who advised him to become a lawyer. Although he did attend the Kansas City School of Law, … - Paul Hartman
Paul Hartman was an American dancer, stage performer and television character actor. Born in San Francisco, California, Hartman, like Fred Astaire, began performing as a dancer with his sister, and developed a career that spanned the golden musical era of the 1940s-50s. As a character actor he played a barber on "Petticoat Junction" and a landlord on "Love American Style". - Jerry van Dyke
Jerry Van Dyke (born July 27, 1931, in Danville, Illinois) is an American comedian and actor. He is the younger brother of comedian and actor Dick Van Dyke, and made his acting debut on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" with several guest appearances as Rob Petrie's brother, Stacie. Van Dyke began his stand-up comedy career while still in high school in Danville, and was already a veteran of strip joints and nightclubs when he joined the Air Force Special Services in 1952. - Edgar Buchanan
Edgar Buchanan was an American actor with a long career in both film and television, most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the "Petticoat Junction" and "Green Acres" television sitcoms of the 1960s. As Uncle Joe "who is moving kinda slow", he took over as proprietor of the Shady Rest Hotel following the death of Bea Benaderet, who had played Kate Bradley. - Ronnie Schell
Ronald Ralph Schell (born December 23, 1931 in Richmond, California) is an American actor, stand-up comedian and cartoon voice actor. Early in his career he appeared as himself as a contestant on "You Bet Your Life" opposite Groucho Marx, demonstrating a comic barrage of jive talk. Perhaps Ronnie will always be best remembered for playing Private Duke Slater on the Jim Nabors vehicle "Gomer Pyle, USMC". - Jamie Farr
Jamie Farr (born Jameel Joseph Farah on July 1, 1934) is an American television and film actor and popular game show panelist. He is perhaps best known for playing the role of cross-dressing Corporal (later Sergeant) Maxwell Klinger in the 1970s and 1980s U.S. television sitcom, "M*A*S*H". - Teri Garr
Since Garr announced publicly that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, she has become a leading advocate in raising awareness for MS and the latest treatments for the disease. She is actively involved with the National MS Society and the MS community, and travels across the United States speaking about her experiences living with MS, empowering others with MS to educate themselves about the disease and to seek treatment early. - Dick Elliott
Richard "Dick" Elliott (April 30, 1886 - December 22, 1961) was a character actor from the 1930s until the time of his death. He played many different roles, typically as a somewhat blustery sort, such as a politician. He had a single, memorable line in "It's a Wonderful Life", where he scolded Jimmy Stewart, who was trying to say goodnight to Donna Reed, advising him to stop hemming and hawing and just go ahead and kiss her.
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