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Mayberry needs a Sheriff.....

Requisiat in pacem Andy. It was a genuine joy to have grown up as one of your many unknown students. Thanks for being such a terrific mentor.
 
Sad news indeed,I grew up watching Andy,Barney,Aunt Bea and Opie all the time....not to mention Gomer and Goober Pyle,The Dillards....so many talents on one show.RIP Sheriff Taylor:salute:
 
the andy griffith show was /is an icon in many of our lives,but movies like "No time for sargents" should be remembered as well...and his skit about seeing his first football game...just hilarious...and i still watch matlock...
 
Daveroo said:
the andy griffith show was /is an icon in many of our lives,but movies like "No time for sargents" should be remembered as well...and his skit about seeing his first football game...just hilarious...and i still watch matlock...
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While not as funny as NTFS, "Onionhead" was a good one as well!
 
I grew up watching it and I still find myself watching it when there is a marathon on TVLAND, love that show.. Rest in peace Andy Griffith.. :salute:
 
aircav1970 said:
Sad news indeed,I grew up watching Andy,Barney,Aunt Bea and Opie all the time....not to mention Gomer and Goober Pyle,The Dillards....so many talents on one show.RIP Sheriff Taylor:salute:
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i totally have to agree. the world is a somewhat lesser place without him in it.
ever notice how dog-gone funny that show was, without any of the off color stuff that makes us laugh these days? man, i really dug that show, and not even because of how funny it was.
i loved it because i've always wanted to live somewhere like mayberry, and know people like andy and aunt bea and the rest.
 
Saw the clip on the morning TV news........had the theme tune to the show running through my head for the next 2 hrs, dang it!
 
I keep telling my wife....

For years I've said in the afterlife I want to live in Mayberry. I can be Emmett, the fix-it guy.
 
Although he is best remembered for his role as Andy Taylor, the sheriff of Mayberry in a TV Sitcom, he was very good in more serious roles. Ron Howard has nothing but positive things to say about his experience working with him. He was also successful with the courtroom drama "Matlock" from 1986 to 1995. His first movie "A Face in the Crowd" directed by the great, Elia Kazan and co-starring Patricia Neal and Walter Mathau is stunning. His character Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes is very different from how we came to remember Andy Griffith. Great acting work none the less but I, like most people, will remember him in his comedic roles.

There is a great quote sometimes attributed to the great English Shakespearean actor of the late 18th and early 19th century, Edmund Kean. "Dying is easy, comedy is hard." Mr. Griffith made comedy seem easy.


 
TV actor or not I made it part of raising my kids to add a dash of father Andy Taylor to my repertoire. You just can't go wrong.
 
Same here, I've seen every episode of the Andy Griffith Show dozens and dozens of times. Each show is very entertaining and usually there is a message of morality and character embedded within the plot. Many times when faced with issues I think, "what would Andy do?"
 
Even Joe Arpaio liked Andy.




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[/h][h=6]From "Americas Toughest Sheriff" to Americas most iconic Sheriff Andy Griffith; Rest in Peace. A great man a great show, he will be missed[/h]





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My favorite Andy Griffith show.
The possibilities were fun....

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Question for the SOH Older members ?

Wasn't Andy on " No Time For Sgt's " with Phil Silvers ? This is for all the Old Timers here at SOH . Probably got the show name and actor wrong .

Rich
 
The Phil Silvers show was "Sgt Bilko" wasn't it? Pretty sure Andy Griffith wasn't on that show. The "No Time For Sergeants" tv show lasted one season (1964/65) and starred a guy named Sammy Jackson.

edit: the Phil Silvers/Sgt Bilko show was originally titled "The Phil Silvers Show".
 
"No Time For Sergeants" starred both Andy Griffith and Don Knotts. A truly 'must see' in my book. Knotts' role was a bit part (his first big screen appearance), and Griffith liked him so much that he cast him in the role of Barney Fife in the Andy Griffith Show.
 
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