Andy Griffith, the American actor known for the 1960s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show and legal drama Matlock has died, according to a friend. Griffith was 86.
Paramedics were called to his home in Manteo, North Carolina Tuesday morning, the friend told local TV station WITN.
Griffiths was also a Grammy Award-winning Southern-gospel singer and had an early career on stage and in films before moving into TV.
On The Andy Griffith Show he played the mild-mannered sheriff of the sleepy town of Mayberry, N.C. Don Knotts, a long-time friend of Griffith had the role of his inept deputy and a young Ron Howard played his son, Opie.
How very sad. He was always a favorite of mine as a child watching the Andy Griffith Show. A very gentle and kind man. May he rest in peace.
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Griffith did some really nasty against-type acting in such TV movies as Pray for the Wildcats. I thought his Salvage series was also fun. I enjoyed his work.
That's too bad... but truth be told I thought he was already dead.
He was in a movie about five years ago.
Still, just thinking of him brings back memories of watching the AG Show with my grandmother, who loved him and Opie.
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The Andy Griffith Show. "One of the first and best depictions of regional Americana, from a time, at the dawn of mass-culture, when American regions were still, well, regional. This gentle small-town comedy gave us Mayberrys quirks without ridiculing or patronizing them. And Griffiths Sheriff Taylor, whod rather wield a wry comment than a gun, was a weekly example of Americans talking through their problems."
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An interesting first-person view of the show from AG being interviewed by Larry King.
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