Before he became Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show, actor Don Knotts performed whenever he could and however he could. That included a tour of duty in the 1940s performing for the ...

When Don Knotts took on the role of Barney Fife on the classic series The Andy Griffith Show, it was clear the actor was a great talent. But the mannerisms, the facial expressions, and persona Knotts ...

When you watch reruns of The Andy Griffith Show—most notably its first five seasons—you can't help but get taken in by the easy-going chemistry between Griffith's role as Mayberry's Sheriff Andy ...

Since 1960, The Andy Griffith Show has been making audiences laugh. The rapport between Andy Griffith and real-life friend and side-kick, Don Knotts, is the reason we continue to love this show and ...

Don Knotts, the skinny, lovable nerd who kept generations of television audiences laughing as bumbling Dep. Barney Fife on "The Andy Griffith Show," has died. He was 81. Knotts died Friday night of ...

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Morgantown, W.Va. | An unfinished statue of Barney Fife apparently won't be heading to Don Knotts' hometown after all. Knotts' widow endorses a statue, but says the monument should be of her husband, ...

"It captures Don Knotts the person beautifully, while he holds Barney Fife's hat," daughter Karen says. By Ryan Parker Don Knotts has been memorialized in his hometown of Morgantown, WV. A bronze ...

LOS ANGELES - Don Knotts, who kept generations of TV audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on "The Andy Griffith Show" and would-be swinger landlord Ralph Furley on "Three's Company," has ...

Don Knotts, the rail-thin comic actor who was perhaps best known to millions of television viewers as the bungling Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife in "The Andy Griffith Show" and the squirrelly landlord in ...