Andy Griffith young would seem to be best represented by The Andy Griffith Show, perhaps the most beloved ... turned people ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Nabors, the Alabama-born comic actor ... Nabors became an instant success when he joined “The Andy Griffith Show” in the early 1960s. The character of Gomer Pyle, the ...

HONOLULU — Jim Nabors, the Alabama-born comic actor who starred as TV’s dim but good-hearted Southern rube Gomer Pyle and constantly surprised audiences with his twang-free operatic singing ...