When you watch reruns of The Andy Griffith Show—most notably its first five seasons—you can't help but get taken in by the ...

Even the biggest celebrities in Hollywood get starstruck from time to time—and recent Academy Awards host Conan O’Brien ...

If beloved deputy Barney Fife and precocious grade-schooler Opie Taylor seemed like family on "The Andy Griffith Show," it may be because the actors actually were. Ron Howard, who started his ...

Barney Fife (Don Knotts, 1924–2006) Don Knotts as Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife in The Andy Griffith Show Character bio: Barney Fife is Andy's cousin and the overly enthusiastic yet bumbling deputy ...

Knotts played his bumbling deputy, Barney Fife. Griffith died at the age of 86 following a heart attack in 2012. Knotts died in 2006 at the age of 81 of complications from lung cancer. Howard went ...

He played the son of Griffith, who played a widowed sheriff in the fictional town of Mayberry, North Carolina.Knotts played his bumbling deputy, Barney Fife.Griffith died at the age of 86 ...