Bill Friday, one of Griffith's best friends, spoke with ABC11 early Tuesday and said he had been informed that the iconic actor died Tuesday around 7 a.m. at the age of 86. The Dare County Sheriff's ...

Actor laid to rest five hours after he died. July 4, 2012— -- Legendary actor and comedian Andy Griffith was laid to rest quickly, buried by family less than five hours after he died. Griffith's ...

After Don Knotts left The Andy Griffith Show, the comedy was never the same. The genial sitcom was as popular as ever — it ...

Watching Don Knotts and Andy Griffith on The Andy Griffith Show, one gets a sense of the cameraderie and chemistry between the two actors. Their friendship may have begun professionally in the 1955 ...

For five pivotal years, Andy Griffith and Don Knotts partnered on The Andy Griffith Show to become one of the greatest television comedy teams. Their on-screen chemistry mirrored their friendship in ...

Andy Griffith with his first wife Barbara Edwards in the 1960s. Best known as a TV dad, actor Andy Griffith also had two children of his own: son Andy “Sam” Griffith Jr. and daughter Dixie Griffith.

When The Andy Griffith Show premiered in 1960, no one could have predicted just how deeply it would embed itself in the American psyche—or how far its stars would travel beyond the sleepy little town ...

Many fans know and love Aneta Corsaut as Helen Crump on The Andy Griffith Show, but her career didn’t end in Mayberry. After the series wrapped, she went on to appear in other television shows, ...

NORTH CAROLINA — The Andy Griffith Show is synonymous with North Carolina, and now lawmakers want to make it official. House Bill 557 would make The Andy Griffith Show the official TV show of the ...