2006-09-19 03:51:04 · 12 answers · asked by pumkinboy62 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
I am from Mt Airy,AKA Mayberry,and Andy is alive and well. he lives in Mateo N.C. He has visited Mt Airy in the pasted year or two,when TV land made a statue of him and Opie in Raleigh and in Mt.Airy .He also has some gospel Cd's out now too.And he based the show on MtAiry a great place to live.
2006-09-19 04:28:38 · answer #1 · answered by Ms Scarlet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Andy Griffith
Actor
Born: 1 June 1926
Birthplace: Mount Airy, North Carolina
Best known as: Star of TV's The Andy Griffith Show
Adny Griffith's 1960s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show remains one of the best-loved television shows of the 20th century. Griffith got his start playing a country yokel on radio and in recorded routines like "What It Was, Was Football." He parlayed that hayseed persona into a similar role in No Time for Sergeants, which Griffith made into a hit as a TV movie (1955), a Broadway show (1955), and then as a 1958 feature film. Two years later he began his run as Andy Taylor, the good-hearted sheriff of small-town Mayberry, North Carolina on The Andy Griffith Show. The gentle comedy co-starred Ron Howard as Griffith's freckled son Opie, and Don Knotts as the comical deputy Barney Fife. The show ran until 1968 and continued its popularity in decades of daily reruns. In the 1980s, Griffith scored again with another long-running series, Matlock, in which he played gruff, country-crafty trial lawyer Ben Matlock. The series ran from 1986 to 1995 and was such a hit with senior citizens that it became a running punch line for comedians. Curiously, despite Griffith's extreme popularity, he was never nominated for an Emmy Award for either Matlock or The Andy Griffith Show.
Extra credit: The Andy Griffith Show also starred Francis Bavier as Aunt Bee and Jim Nabors as cheerful half-wit Gomer Pyle, who was spun off into the show Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.... After Griffith's show ended in 1968, some of the supporting characters stepped into a sequel, Mayberry, R.F.D., which ran from 1968-71... Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy, North Carolina, promotes itself as the real-life inspiration for his show... Griffith attended the University of North Carolina... He is no relation to actress Melanie Griffith.
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2006-09-19 11:48:36 · answer #2 · answered by KIT-KAT 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is not dead, he lives in a few different places now, but doesn't have much to do with the show stuff anymore. Oh, and by the way, for the dude that complained abou the color episodes... the later episdoes were filmed in color. But those episodes suck, the black and white ones are better.
2006-09-19 11:05:10 · answer #3 · answered by francesfarmer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's still alive. Don Knotts (Barney) died this past February though.
2006-09-19 11:00:04 · answer #4 · answered by Kris 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He changed his name to Matlock and moved to the big city to practice law.
2006-09-19 10:58:40 · answer #5 · answered by that'sBS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's on early in the mornings & get this...
They put it in color.
In color!
Mother fu*kers with their technology.
What the he*ll
You just wait.
2006-09-19 10:54:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He married Barney and lived happily ever after....
2006-09-19 10:59:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
he is still alive and retired I believe and has a statue of him in Mayberry, NC
2006-09-19 11:00:17 · answer #8 · answered by valgal115 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is still alive
2006-09-19 14:14:05 · answer #9 · answered by Brian S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he just sings Gospel
2006-09-19 10:52:50 · answer #10 · answered by jody n 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋