Comic Basics on MSN

Did You Know Vincent D’Onofrio Holds Guinness Record for Biggest On-Screen Weight Gain?

Vincent D’Onofrio holds the Guinness World Record for the most weight gained for a movie role, and it all started with his ...
The Cheat Sheet

‘The Andy Griffith Show’: Jim Nabors Loved Playing Gomer But Had 1 Regret

Pyle was an oafish, childlike employee at the local Mayberry gas station. Thanks to Nabors’ comedic chops, however, he quickly became one of the most popular characters in the series. When Pyle wasn’t ...
Fiction Horizon on MSN

Vincent D’Onofrio Holds Guinness Record for Biggest Weight Gain for a Film Role

Vincent D’Onofrio set a Guinness World Record for the most weight gained for a movie role with his performance in Stanley ...
Fox News

Jim Nabors dead; star best known as Gomer Pyle was 87

Jim Nabors, the star who played the clumsy deputy sheriff Gomer Pyle on “The Andy Griffith Show” and eventually starred in his own spinoff, has died. He was 87. Nabors' husband, Stan Cadwallader, told ...
The Washington Post

Jim Nabors, who played TV’s hapless hayseed Gomer Pyle, dies at 87

Jim Nabors, a singer and comic actor who played the bumbling but good-natured hayseed Gomer Pyle on “The Andy Griffith Show” before starring as an unlikely Marine recruit in “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.,” ...
WPTV-TV

Jim Nabors, actor who portrayed Gomer Pyle on Andy Griffith show, has died

Jim Nabors, a singer and actor best known for his role as Gomer Pyle on "The Andy Griffith Show," has died, according to family friend and CNN affiliate KHNL-KGMB producer Phil Arnone. He was 87 ...
The Herald-Sun

Jim Nabors, who made cheery Gomer Pyle a TV icon, dies at 87

Jim Nabors made good on his last name when he brought Gomer Pyle to “The Andy Griffith Show.” His big-hearted, ever-cheery gas-pump jockey was a neighborly fit in the easygoing town of Mayberry. But ...
The York Dispatch

Jim Nabors, who played Gomer Pyle on ‘Andy Griffith,’ dead at 87

Jim Nabors, who starred as the bumbling gas-station-attendant-turned-Marine Gomer Pyle on “The Andy Griffith Show” and his own subsequent spinoff, died Thursday morning in Hawaii. He was 87. His death ...
Yahoo

Jim Nabors, TV’s Gomer Pyle and Singer, Dies at 87

Jim Nabors, whose name is synonymous with the genial bumpkin Gomer Pyle, whom he played on TV, has died. He was 87. His husband, Stan Cadwallader, told the Associated Press that Nabors died on ...
CNN

Jim Nabors, Gomer Pyle on 'The Andy Griffith Show,' dead at 87

(CNN)Jim Nabors, a singer and actor best known for his role as Gomer Pyle on "The Andy Griffith Show," has died, according to family friend and CNN affiliate KHNL-KGMB producer Phil Arnone. He was 87.
KHON2

Entertainer Jim Nabors, TV’s Gomer Pyle, dies at 87

Jim Nabors, the Alabama-born comic actor who starred as TV’s dim but good-hearted Southern rube Gomer Pyle and constantly surprised audiences with his twang-free operatic singing voice, died early ...