Actor bio: Don Knotts began his career as a ventriloquist and comedian, gaining national attention on The Steve Allen Show.

Don Knotts, the skinny, lovable nerd who kept generations of television audiences laughing as bumbling Dep. Barney Fife on "The Andy Griffith Show," has died. He was 81. Knotts died Friday night ...

Don Knotts Biography Don Knotts (July 21, 1924 – February 24, 2006) was an American comedic actor best known for his portrayal of Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show and Ralph Furley on Three ...

Until he wasn't. Five seasons into the show's run, Don Knotts departed, creating a vacuum that could never be filled and resulting in The Andy Griffith Show never being the same again.

LOS ANGELES - A homecoming tribute for Don Knotts in his native West Virginia has been canceled because the 81-year-old actor best known for his role as Deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith ...

LOS ANGELES — Don Knotts, the skinny, lovable nerd who kept generations of television audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on “The Andy Griffith Show,” has died. He was 81 ...

Much like Sheriff Andy Taylor, Andy Griffith found a way to convince a dying Don Knotts to let him visit despite Knotts' embarrassment over his oxygen tank. Here's how.

Don Knotts was one of those rare actors who could make you laugh without saying a word. Best remembered as the loveably bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show, or as Ralph Furley in ...

Exclusive Don Knotts’ daughter explains why she left his deathbed to laugh in book: ‘I just couldn’t hold it in’ Karen Knotts has written a memoir titled 'Tied Up in Knotts: My Dad and Me' ...

Learn more about 'The Andy Griffith Show' and what fans may be surprised to learn about its stars, according to actor Don Knotts' brother-in-law.

Actor bio: Don Knotts began his career as a ventriloquist and comedian, gaining national attention on The Steve Allen Show.