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Denver Post
| 11 months ago
People always ask Dixie Nann Griffith, daughter of the late, beloved actor Andy Griffith, whether her father was like Sheriff Andy Taylor. "No, he wasn't, he was just my dad." While the actor was an icon to millions for his role as Mayberry's wise...
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FameBall.com
| 11 months ago
Andy Samuel Griffith (born June 1, 1926) is an American actor, director, producer, Grammy Award-winning Southern-gospel singer, and writer. He gained prominence in the starring role in director Elia Kazan's epic film A Face in the Crowd (1957) before...
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Passaic Valley Today
| 11 months ago
I read Record Columnist Bill Ervolino's wonderful article about Andy Griffith's life, and it got me to thinking about why Andy's death hit so hard. "The Andy Griffith Show" was the antithesis of modern "reality TV." No town had a deputy like Barney...
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The Independent
| 11 months ago
News in pictures From the blogs Why on earth has Michael Gove commissioned yet another report on school dinners?...How do we feel when we, the audience, have been cheated on purpose? In the uber-macho and hetero-centric world of urban music,...
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Starpulse
| 11 months ago
Comment TV Land is honoring the life and work of Andy Griffith , who passed away Tuesday at the age of 86, with a TV marathon. Griffith, born in 1926 in North Carolina, has been a part of the American TV landscape for nearly 60 years, first appearing...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
The shrewd country bumpkin is a staple of American myth, and Griffith was its finest practitioner since Will Rogers. His finest roles allowed him to explore multiple facets of that character, which he reprised as the defence attorney Ben Matlock (...
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NY Daily News
| 11 months ago
Ron Howard (c.) with co-stars Don Knotts (l.) and Andy Griffith on the set of the "Andy Griffith Show."...My dad spoke with him about six weeks ago and Andy was upbeat and enjoying his life and hoping to find a part that he could do and be creatively...
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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
That Andy Griffith was never nominated for an Emmy for either of his signature series the rural family comedy "The Andy Griffith Show" (1960-68), in which he played small-town sheriff Andy Taylor, and the legal drama "Matlock" (1986-95), in which he...
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Fox
| 11 months ago
FoxNews.com It's altogether fitting that Andy Griffin -- the man who for so many years was the television star who most represented small town America and a way of life that is so uniquely American -- has died on the day before we celebrate our...
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Celebuzz
| 11 months ago
Andy Griffith , veteran television and film actor, had a career that spanned more than six decades. On Tuesday, the news broke that the Hollywood legend had died at 86 . Beginning his career in the early 1950s with various small television roles, it...
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Sacramento Bee
| 11 months ago
Andy Griffith's gift to the show that bore his name wasn't just the homespun wisdom of the plain-spoken sheriff he played. It was the place he created: a small town where all foibles are forgiven and friendships are forever, full of characters who...
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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
Andy Griffith , who died on Tuesday at age 86, never strayed far from his native North Carolina. He grew up there and returned there in his later years, but he's most closely identified with a place in North Carolina that never existed. "The Andy...
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NY Daily News
| 11 months ago
Andy Griffith , whose portrayal of the folksy top cop in the self-titled 1960's series The Andy Griffith Show turned him into a television icon, died early Tuesday of natural causes at his home on the North Carolina coast. North Carolina has lost its...
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CNN
| 11 months ago
Griffith died Tuesday at the age of 86 on North Carolina's Roanoke Island, his family said. But the actor's legacy in this small community, once propped up by a local economy fixed on textiles and tobacco, seems ever-present. "We're the...
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AP Online
| 11 months ago
N.C. (AP) — President Barack Obama says he is saddened to hear that Andy Griffith has died at age 86 and called the actor an extraordinary talent.
Obama said in a statement Tuesday that Griffith was beloved by generations and revered by...
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ABC News
| 11 months ago
On Off Andy Griffith, the legendary entertainer who became a household name to millions of TV viewers on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Matlock," died today...Dare County, N.C., Sheriff Doug Doughtie confirmed Griffith's death to ABC News, saying that...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 11 months ago
For many of us, it will always be the first thing that springs to mind when we think of Andy Griffith. And then the evocative imagery: A father and his son, with fishing poles in hand, casually strolling toward a lake, about to embrace a carefree day...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
Griffith near bronze statue of Andy and Opie from "The Andy Griffith Show," Raleigh, N.C., Oct. 28, 2003. VOA News July 03, 2012 Iconic American actor Andy Griffith, best known for his role as a small-town sheriff in the 1960s television series The...
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Popeater
| 11 months ago
The beloved small screen icon Andy Griffith, who died at 86 on Tuesday , will be honored with multiple marathons of "The Andy Griffith Show" on TV Land. On Wednesday, July 4, TV Land will air the best of "The Andy Griffith Show" from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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San Francisco Chronicle
| 11 months ago
Andy Griffith, who died Tuesday morning at his home in Roanoke Island, N.C., at 86, was an unlikely star from the beginning to the end of his long career. He didn't look like a leading man, and he certainly didn't sound like one when he opened his...
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CNN
| 11 months ago
Actor Andy Griffith, the man who played folksy Sheriff Andy Taylor in the fictional town of Mayberry, died Tuesday at the age of 86, his family said. Griffith died at about 7 a.m. at his home on Roanoke Island, according to Dare County, North...
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National Public Radio
| 11 months ago
Andy Griffith, who played the wise sheriff of Mayberry, N.C., in one of American television's most beloved situation comedies, has died, according to a family friend and a real-life sheriff in North Carolina...TV in Washington, N.C., says an...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Jason Reed/Reuters Andy Griffith, an entertainer whose stories about small town life were a source of cheerful recognition and nostalgic pleasure for generations of Americans, has died in North Carolina . Griffith died early Tuesday morning aged 86,...
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Vanity Fair
| 11 months ago
Andy Griffith, a true-blue American television star and North Carolina's favorite son, has died at the age of 86. Griffith's robust curriculum vitae includes leading roles in Matlock and The Andy Griffith Show, numerous other television mini-series,...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
According to multiple news outlets, emergency medical crews responded to Griffith's North Carolina home on Tuesday morning...Griffith, while best-known for his CBS network television show, was also a writer, director, producer and Grammy Award-...
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AP Online
| 11 months ago
Some of the highlights of Andy Griffith's career:
1953: Has a hit single as Deacon Andy Griffith with the comic monologue "What It Was, Was Football!"
1955: Becomes a Broadway star with the hit comedy "No Time for...
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The New York Times
| 11 months ago
The Dare County sheriff, Doug Doughtie, said in a statement that Mr. Griffith died on Tuesday morning. Mr. Griffith was already a star, with rave reviews on Broadway in No Time for Sergeants and in Elia Kazan's film A Face in the Crowd when The Andy...
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KSBY
| 11 months ago
The news was reported to the North Carolina television station by Bill Friday, former president of the University of North Carolina and a Griffith friend. The Charlotte Observer later reported that its sources had confirmed Griffith's death.
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E! Online
| 11 months ago
From 1960 to 1968, Griffith's kindly sheriff raised a son, Opie, played by Ron Howard , and a high-strung deputy, Barney Fife, played by Don Knotts . That Taylor, a white lawman in the Civil Rights-era South, became a model of fairness was a tribute...
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Pop Crunch
| 11 months ago
America's Favorite Sheriff Andy Griffith Dead at 86 Actor Andy Griffith, best known for playing a Southern sheriff on his self-titled '60s sitcom, died early Tuesday in Dare County, North Carolina at the age of 86. A native of Mount Airy, North...
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CNN
| 11 months ago
Best known for his role on "The Andy Griffith Show," the actor also starred as a murder-solving Southern attorney in the television series "Matlock" during the 1980s and 1990s. He was also known for his roles in movies and on the stage, as a producer...
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BBC
| 11 months ago
Dare County Sheriff Doug Doughtie said in a statement Griffith had passed away around 07:00 EST (11:00 GMT) on Tuesday. The actor received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest US civilian award, in 2005. Born in Mount Airy, North Carolina,...
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Chicago Tribune
| 11 months ago
A former North Carolina high school music teacher, Griffith launched his career as an entertainer in the early 1950s by writing and performing comic monologues for civic clubs that he delivered in an exaggerated Southern drawl that was once described...
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Starpulse
| 11 months ago
Comment Legendary TV star Andy Griffith died at his North Carolina home at the age of 86. Griffith's close friend Bill Friday, once president at the star's alma mater of the University of North Carolina, confirmed Griffith's death; saying the actor...
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Orlando Sentinel Online
| 11 months ago
A TV dad for all time , Staff writer 11:10 a.m. EST, July 3, 2012 ''The star sets the tone of the show, sets the mood, and Andy was full of fun,'' co-star Don Knotts once said. Has television ever delivered a finer portrait of a father, friend and...
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Fox
| 11 months ago
Legendary television actor Andy Griffith, who made a name for himself with his self-titled comedy "The Andy Griffith Show" and later on the long-running series Matlock, has died at the age of 86, according to multiple reports.
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NY1
| 11 months ago
The North Carolina Governor's office says Griffith died at his home on the Outer Banks. Griffith was best known as Andy Taylor, the sheriff of Mayberry on the long running 1960s TV hit "The Andy Griffith Show". In the 1980s, Griffith became popular...
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KTUV
| 11 months ago
The station reported that former UNC President Bill Friday, who is a close friend of an actor, said Griffith died Tuesday morning in Dare County...Griffith was 86 years old and was born and raised in Mount Airy in Richmond County, N.C. Many of the...
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Celebritology
| 11 months ago
North Carolina TV station , that Griffith died around 7 this morning at his North Carolina home. The cause of his death has not been identified, though he had a history of heart troubles, according to this 2008 profile in the Virginian-Pilot . The...
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Star Tribune
| 11 months ago
In addition to starring in "The Andy Griffith Show," he was in "Mayberry R.F.D.," and "Matlock." Actor and director Ron Howard, who played Griffith's son "Opie" in "The Andy Griffith Show," tweeted: "His pursuit of excellence and the joy he took in...
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Contra Costa Times
| 11 months ago
Click photo to enlarge Actors Andy Griffith (L) and Don Knotts pose backstage after accepting the Legend Award for their series "The Andy Griffith Show" during a taping of the second annual TV Land Awards in Hollywood, California in this March 7,...
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Celebrity Gossip
| 11 months ago
He brought laughter to households for countless years, so it comes with great sadness to report that Andy Griffith has passed away at age 86...After spending eight years playing Sheriff Andy Taylor on "The Andy Griffith Show", he carried on with the...
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Hollywood insider
| 11 months ago
Globe Photos Television icon Andy Griffith, best known as the sage town sheriff in the '60s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show and as a cantankerous defense attorney on 1980s-'90s drama Matlock , died today in Roanoke Island, N.C...Born an only child in...
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People
| 11 months ago
Silverman and Kristin Boehm Andy Griffith, the beloved Sheriff Andy Taylor of TV's iconic The Andy Griffith Show and dramatic defense attorney on Matlock , died at his North Carolina home Tuesday morning...News , saying Griffith died at his Dare...
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Extra
| 11 months ago
Getty Images Few can forget America's Favorite Sherriff from his self-titled show, which ran from 1960 to 1968. The story, set in fictional Mayberry, North Carolina, centers on Griffith, a widower, his deputy Barney Fife (Don Knotts), spinster Aunt...
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Chicago Tribune
| 11 months ago
The television station quoted a longtime friend as saying that the 86-year-old actor died at his home on Roanoke Island. The Dare County Sheriff's dispatcher would say only that an ambulance was called to Griffith's residence but would not comment...
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The Naples Daily News
| 11 months ago
Andy Griffith died early Tuesday, July 3, 2012, in his North Carolina home...Former University of North Carolina President Bill Friday confirmed his death, saying he died about 7 a.m...Griffith attended UNC Chapel Hill where he earned a degree in...
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USA Today Life
| 11 months ago
Andy Griffith dies at age 86 Updated Beloved actor Andy Griffith died this morning. Former UNC President Bill Friday says The Andy Griffith Show and Matlock actor died at his home in Dare County, North Carolina around 7 a.m...Emergency medical crews...
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Chandler Republic
| 11 months ago
Former UNC President Bill Friday says the Mayberry R.F.D. and Matlock actor died at his home in Dare County, North Carolina around 7 a.m...Emergency medical crews responded to Griffith's home this morning, Dare County Sheriff J.D.
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Fox News
| 11 months ago
Legendary television actor Andy Griffith, who made a name for himself with his self-titled comedy "The Andry Griffith Show" and later on the long-running series Matlock, has died at the age of 86, according to multiple reports.
