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Our family is in mourning. I think we will have to watch our copies of the Andy Griffith Show in memory of Mr. Knotts.
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Huhhhh, how sad.Everyone loves Don Knotts. Who knows, I suppose Leslie Nielson will die in about 10-15 years when he is 96. At least we will have had him for a long time.
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Okay, we now have a good question to use to trip up foreign spies!
Don Knotts was best known for his role as Barney Fife, the quintessential bumbling lawman on the Andy Griffith show of the 1950's and 60's. He starred in numerous films and a couple of other series (Three's Company comes to mind), and had lots of guest appearances on other shows.
I'm sure a bio will give you more pertinent facts. He was just a funny, funny man.
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(This is going to look wierd) However, yeah, I just found out about this from a friend of mine on Myspace. I'm gonna miss the old guy. Good, clean humor never wears out.
I'm gonna go in search of some video clips.
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There were other ones, but they are archived Andy Griffith shows that run about $2 a piece. There is also a set of vids of a TV interview with him.
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While Knotts' greatest body of work was definitely "The Andy Griffith show" his greatest acting job was (imho) "Pleasantville." The subtleness and manipulation that he used to affect the outcome of the plot was really well done, and there was none of the mugging he so overused in "Three's company."
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What a fine comedian and one whose passing has bothered me deeply. Stan the Man said it best about his humor being clean and timeless.
I'm going to bop over to Netflix and put a few of his movies on my queue. Until they arrive, it's Andy Griffith reruns for me, which will be, for the first time, a bit bittersweet.
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Oh yeah, he was awesome in Pleasantville.. I recommend reading his Times Obit, it was really well-done, and written by someone who obviously understood his unique brand of humor.
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Andy Griffith's, major SF author Octavia Butler , and Darren McGavin of Kolchak: The Nightstalker all died on Saturday. And Dennis Weaver died on Sunday. Among other things, he essentially gave a one-man-performance in the made-for-tv Duel, the first Spielberg-directed film which made Hollywood producers sit up and take notice.
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