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Andy Griffith, beloved ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ star, dies at 86 Andy Griffith, whose homespun mix of humor and wisdom made “The Andy Griffith Show” an enduring TV favorite, has died. He was 86.
Nov. 8, 1957
Andy Griffith ponders the problems of a cameraman at Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, Calif., while working on the movie "Onionhead,” the story of a recruit in the U.S. Coast Guard, played by Griffith, who loses all his hair and receives the eponymous nickname from his crew mates.
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Sept. 3, 1959
Mickey Wayland of Knoxville, Tenn., then Miss Tennessee, bears up under the tribute of Andy Griffith, right, and Art Lund, his co-star in the Broadway musical "Destry Rides Again." Griffith played the title character.
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Cast members from "The Andy Griffith Show," from left to right, Don Knotts as Deputy Barney Fife, Ron Howard as Opie Taylor and Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor. One of the most popular TV programs of all time, the show ran for eight years, from 1960 to 1968. It was one of only three series in TV history to bow out at the top of the ratings. (The others were “I Love Lucy” and “Seinfeld.”) Griffith said he decided to end it “because I thought it was slipping, and I didn’t want it to go down further.” A 1986 reunion movie, “Return to Mayberry,” was the top-rated TV movie of the season.
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A scene from "The Andy Griffith Show,” with Andy Griffith, left, and Ron Howard. The TV show's fictional Mayberry, N.C., was modeled after Griffith's home town of Mount Airy, N.C.
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A scene from "The Andy Griffith Show," with Ron Howard, left, as Opie Taylor, Frances Bavier as Aunt Bee and Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor.
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Oct. 20, 1967
Andy Griffith, right, laughs it up with Don Knotts on set. The two starred in “The Andy Griffith Show” for eight years, from 1960 to 1968. When asked in 2007 to name his favorite episodes, the ones atop Griffith’s list were the shows that emphasized Knotts’s character. “The second episode that we shot, I knew Don should be funny and I should play straight for him,” Griffith said. “That opened up the whole series because I could play straight for everybody else. And I didn’t have to be funny. I just let them be funny.”
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Feb. 23, 1979
Andy Griffith, on the set of the short-lived TV show "Salvage 1,” played salvage expert extraordinaire Harry Broderick, the hero of the series.
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Nov. 24, 1986
Andy Griffith, right, and Don Knotts — in full Deputy Barney Fife regalia — became friends while performing in the 1955 Broadway production of “No Time for Sergeants,” and remained so until Knotts’s death in 2006 at 81.
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March 15, 1987
Andy Griffith was named top male performer in a new TV program, "Matlock," at the 13th Annual People's Choice Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. The show, which began in 1986, would run until 1995, becoming one of the longest-running TV series of all time.
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Sept. 14, 1993
Andy Griffith starred as the wily, witty defense lawyer Ben Matlock in "Matlock." Southern bred-and-mannered with a practice in Atlanta, the character — law-abiding, fatherly and lovable — was much like Sheriff Andy Taylor with silver hair and a shingle.
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Oct. 16, 2002
Andy Griffith, center, shares a laugh with North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley and Griffith's wife, Cindi, during a ceremony naming part of Route 52 the Andy Griffith Parkway, in Griffith's home town of Mount Airy, N.C. Mount Airy was the basis of the fictional Mayberry, N.C., the town in which “The Andy Griffith Show” was set.
Chuck Burton
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Oct. 16, 2002
Andy Griffith, left, smiles after the unveiling of a sign for the Andy Griffith Parkway during a ceremony in Griffith's home town of Mount Airy, N.C.
Chuck Burton
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Ron Howard and Andy Griffith starred in 2003’s "The Andy Griffith Show Reunion: Back to Mayberry."
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Ron Howard, Andy Griffith and Don Knotts star in 2003’s "The Andy Griffith Show Reunion: Back to Mayberry."
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Oct. 28, 2003
Andy Griffith sits in front of a bronze statue of Andy and Opie from "The Andy Griffith Show," after the statue was unveiled during a ceremony in Raleigh, N.C. The show’s fictional town of Mayberry was set in North Carolina, where Griffith grew up.
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Nov. 2, 2003
Andy Griffith, right, and actor Jim Nabors attend the "CBS at 75" gala at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York. Nabors’s character Gomer Pyle first appeared on “The Andy Griffith Show.”
Evan Agostini
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March 7, 2004
Andy Griffith, left, and Don Knotts speak at the second annual TV Land Awards at The Hollywood Palladium, in Los Angeles. “The Andy Griffith Show” won the Legend Award at that year’s ceremony; the previous year, Griffith’s performance as Sheriff Andy Taylor won the TV Land Award for Single Dad of the Year.
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Nov. 9, 2005
Andy Griffith, far right, applauds as singer Aretha Franklin, center, receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. Griffith and former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan also received the award during the ceremony. The medal is presented to those who have made contributions to national security, world peace or culture.
Lawrence Jackson
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Nov. 9, 2005
President George W. Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil award, to Andy Griffith in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C.
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June 14, 2007
Andy Griffith in the 2007 film "Waitress."
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