Elinor joined the show as Ellie Walker, a charming druggist and Andy Taylor’s love interest. After the end of her previous ...

Don Knotts, the saucer-eyed, scarecrow-thin comic actor best known for his roles as the high-strung small-town deputy Barney Fife on the 1960s CBS series “The Andy Griffith Show” and the ...

At the same time, bring up the subject of the show to people, more often than not they'll respond with some variation of "I love Barney Fife—Don Knotts is just great!" "People connected with him ...

The Andy Griffith Show had to make due without one of their most popular actors in the late Don Knotts. They’d end up trying to replace the Barney Fife role with another actor. One of the they ...

But to his daughter, Karen, Don Knotts is simply Dad. In this revealing interview, Karen Knotts, an accomplished actor and writer in her own right, looks back at her father's life and career ...

Knotts called Griffith the next day and suggested that Sheriff Taylor needed a deputy. In his book Andy and Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show, author Daniel de Visé ...

I heard that Don Knotts was the most feared drill instructor on Parris Island during World War II. Origins: Positing improbable military backgrounds for popular entertainment figures is a ...

Late in April 1993, I interviewed funny and famously fidgety (on screen that is) comedian Don Knotts, while he was co-starring with lovely Barbara Eden (soon to be 92!) in a national tour of the N ...