Griffith, who would have turned 100 on June 1, eventually found success again with ‘Matlock’ ...

After a few years away from primetime, he realized that leaving his show might have been a mistake.

MOUNT AIRY, N.C. (WGHP) — For generations of television viewers, Andy Griffith was Sheriff Andy Taylor, who was the wise and ...

While fans of Andy Griffith know he was a man of many talents — singer, actor, musician, writer and director — few knew he ...

Like many performers, music was a common thread in Griffith’s life. He was part of the brass band at church, where minister Ed Mickey taught him to play the trombone and sing. Upon his 1944 graduation ...

Rush, who played a friend of Ron Howard's Opie Taylor on "The Andy Griffith Show," died at 74 after a leukemia diagnosis ...

Andy Griffith's movie career ended before it had really started — and helped lead him to TV stardom on The Andy Griffith Show. Biographer Daniel de Vise, author of Andy and Don: The Making of a ...

Former child actor Dennis Rush, best remembered by generations of viewers as Howie Pruitt on The Andy Griffith Show, died on ...

As a child actor, Ron Howard famously portrayed son Opie Taylor to Sheriff Andy Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show in the 1960s. His father Rance accompanied Ron throughout his early career on the ...

If you’re an avid fan of The Andy Griffith Show, actor Elinor Donahue is a familiar face from the series’ first season. She played “lady druggist” Ellie Walker on the CBS comedy for about a dozen ...

HAPPENS GET MEDICAL HELP IMMEDIATELY. NEW TONIGHT A BELOVED ACTRESS THAT APPEARED ON THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW HAS DIED THE ANDY GRIFFITH MUSEUM IN MOUNT AIRY ANNOUNCED IN A FACEBOOK POST SUNDAY. THE ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . Discovered by a do-gooder reporter while sleeping off in a bender in a drunk tank, Rhodes turns his charming "every man" spiel into a career that ...