Posted on 07/03/2012 7:10:28 AM PDT by Semper911
Former UNC President Bill Friday says Andy Griffith died this morning in Dare County. Friday, who is a close friend of the actor, confirmed that to WITN News.
Dare County Sheriff Doug Doughtie confirms to WITN News that an ambulance went to Andy Griffith's home at 7 a.m. this morning.
The sheriff says he is checking to get more information on the condition of the person who the ambulance was called for.
The 86-year-old Griffith lives on Roanoke Island, not far from the Lost Colony, a play he performed in right after high school.
Griffith was born in Mount Airy, and is most known for his role as "Andy Taylor" from 1960 to 1968.
(Excerpt) Read more at witn.com ...
Howard Morris played Bass. My favorite character from the show. Although, supposedly he only appeared in 6 episodes.
I don't know if there was a subliminal message, but I'd like to know how many sheriffs in the south went around unarmed. There are very small towns like Mayberry up north where I live, but rest assured, all the law enforcement people are armed. I realize it was a comedy show and there were times when Sheriff Taylor used a gun to guard a criminal. But the fact that he went unarmed while his deputy was armed and also that there were no black people in a southern town always amused me.
Funny is funny. There are no age barriers. When I was a kid we used to watch and laugh at Jack Benny, The Three Stooges, and all the other well-known comedians many of whom were thirty-sixty years older than me. I find it strange that many young people today will not watch anyone not much older than themselves. I don't know if young people (usually males) today still watch the Stooges. I remember one time in the nineties talking to some young people at work and mentioning John Belushi. One them, who was about twenty years old, asked me who he was.
Jack Benny was one of the great ones.
His humor was often, tho not always a bit subtle. Something today’s kids just would not appreciate.
Great commercial. A cracker praising a cracker.
LOL!
Despite those jokes, though, that show has a much larger fan base than that. I’ve always enjoyed it myself. Today’s courtroom and whodunit dramas are just a little bit *too authentic* for my tastes to be enjoyable entertainment.
Wow. How sad. Now that only leaves Opie, Aunt Bea and Gomer.
Couldn’t agree more with you, I only hope the liberal pos rots in hell with the rest of satans spawn.
You’re right.
He was a great fake. He was a great liar. He was great at pretending to be something he wasn’t in exchange for money.
Wait...what part of that is admirable, again?
There’s a reason why actors used to be held in contempt. It is because they lie/pretend/play dressup for a living...all favorite activities of 6 year old children everywhere.
A friend of mine used to be one of his neighbors and told me that he had a really nasty disposition. Between that and his shilling for Obamacare makes me think that A Face in the Crowd was somewhat autobiographical.
Well, by your (narrow) standards I myself should be held in contempt since I made a career out of singing and playing really crappy songs in casinos for money. Were they good songs? Some were, some weren’t. But because I did my job well, know one ever knew what I thought. What I thought was not my job. My job was to perform your favorite song and leave you thinking I liked it, even if I didn’t.
I’ve often pondered the duplicity of the job, but that didn’t stop me: the pay was great and none of it really mattered after all, did it? You still wouldn’t know which song was my favorite and which one I loathed. That was my job.
My daughter worked with him on a film in NC about twenty years ago. Said he looked older than his age, that there was a lot of acid beneath all that sugar. He was disappointed by the lack of acclaim, which was partly because his celebrity persona was too much like his characters. But as his portrayal of Lonesome Rhodes shows, the man could act with the best of them. He gave the public what it wanted and became famous and rich, but wanted more.
Not many black people in the mountainous areas of the South. That’s why they were pro-union during the civil war.
Lucifer's agents of evil: Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Osama bin Laden, Mao Tse-tung and, of course, Andy Samuel Griffith.
I believe it. That’s what happens when you are on TV for so many years. You trade recognition and respect for security, so it’s hard to feel sorry for someone after they willingly make that decision.
If you’re thinking Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier) is still alive, I’m sorry to tell you that she left this earthly realm in 1989.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Bavier
You are correct that Ron Howard (Opie) and Jim Nabors (Gomer) are still alive. George Lindsey, who played Goober Pyle after Gomer went off to the USMC, was the other recently-deceased cast member of the show.
I coulda sworn she was the pilot of a plane I was on the other day.
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