Farewell to Fife, Furley: TV's Don Knotts Dies

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Farewell to Fife, Furley: TV’s Don Knotts Dies
By Joal Ryan
Sun Feb 26, 12:10 AM ET
To the end, Don Knotts and Andy Griffith were a team.
Knotts, the jittery Deputy Barney Fife to Griffith’s imminently calm Sheriff Taylor for five Emmy-winning seasons on The Andy Griffith Show, died of lung cancer Friday in Los Angeles. The iconic comic actor was said to have been surrounded by family and a pair of friends–Griffith and his wife.
Knotts was 81.
He will be missed. 😦
 
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Wondering? Is that Bob Denver behind Don and Andy? If is, then Andy is the only one still alive in the picture.

When growing up in the 1960*s, the favorite movie when on TV was The Incrediable Mr. Limpet. We got a kick out of watching that whenever it was on. Funny movie if you ever get a chance to see it. One of the early animation/live action movies of its time.
 
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Wondering? Is that Bob Denver behind Don and Andy? If is, then Andy is the only one still alive in the picture.

When growing up in the 1960*s, the favorite movie when on TV was The Incrediable Mr. Limpet. We got a kick out of watching that whenever it was on. Funny movie if you ever get a chance to see it. One of the early animation/live action movies of its time.
No, it’s Jim Nabors. He is still with us.
 
wacky&wonderful:
No, it’s Jim Nabors. He is still with us.
Ok, after you said it was Jim Nabors, then I realized it is him. That hair under the cap and his younger looks fooled me.
(This photo must have been a few years beofre Gomer Pyle.
 
My favorite episodes of the Andy Griffith Show were those in which Don Knotts dressed like a woman. Remember when he dressed like a middle-aged woman to catch a bank thief and when he dressed like a bride to fool Ernest T. Bass into thinking he’d married the Darling girl? So funny! He deserved every one of the Emmys he won. Rest in peace, Deputy Fife!
 
Some good Barney memories:

Nip it! Nip it in the bud!

Nita . . . Juanita . . . (sung while waiting for that Mount Pilot girl to answer)
 
Rest in peace, Mr. Knotts. The more I learned about you as a person, the more I appreciated you.

About the photo of Mr. Knotts, Mr. Griffith, and Mr. Nabors, who said,
This photo must have been a few years beofre Gomer Pyle.
, as a trivia junkie I have to tell you that Mr. Nabors in that photo WAS PLAYING Gomer Pyle. Gomer worked in his relative Goober Pyles’ gas station in the first years of “The Andy Griffith Show”; “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.” was spun off, when the writers of the former had Gomer decide to join the Marines.

GOLLLLEE!
 
RIP Don Knotts. You gave me a lot of laughs when I was a kid. I used to enjoy being sick and staying home from school so I could see Andy Griffith reruns right after The Match Game and right before Let’s Make a Deal.

Barney Fife had his one bullet that he kept in his pocket, and he never could get things right. But that is what made him so loveable.
 
One of my favorite episodes was when a car ended up in the sherrif’s office. I’m trying to think of the specific episode but someone took the car apart and rebuilt it IN the office!
 
I still love watching The Andy Griffith Show and have seen every episode probably ten times or more. Barney MADE the show.
 
Don Knotts made a movie with Tim Connway called “The Private Eyes”. It was in the early '80s. It is one of my sister and mine’s favorite movies. We have both watched it so many times that we have the whole thing memorized and quote it often. My husband bought the VHS for me and my kids love it too. When I heard that Don Knotts had died, I texted my sister and told her “Inspector Winship died”. That was his name in the movie. I recommend it to anyone.

Maggie
 
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UtahMaggie:
Don Knotts made a movie with Tim Connway called “The Private Eyes”. It was in the early '80s. It is one of my sister and mine’s favorite movies. We have both watched it so many times that we have the whole thing memorized and quote it often. My husband bought the VHS for me and my kids love it too. When I heard that Don Knotts had died, I texted my sister and told her “Inspector Winship died”. That was his name in the movie. I recommend it to anyone.

Maggie
That’s funny. I was thinking about this movie exactly one second before I read your post.

He’ll always be Mr. Furley to me.
 
Barney Fife was one of the top 5 memorable TV characters ever. (IMHO)
I own a DVD of 6 old black and white Andy Griffith shows, each one with Barney. I watch them repeatedly and always laugh. The humor was timeless.
I can’t imagine anyone else who could have played that character but Don Knotts.
I saw Andy Griffith interviewed about Don on The Today Show this morning and Andy had tears in his eyes as he recalled his old friend. It was moving.
God rest Don Knotts.
 
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