You've gotta love those eccentric characters surrounding Sheriff Andy Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show, whether you're talking about Hal Smith as Otis the Drunk, Howard McNear as Floyd the Barber, Don ...

Jim Nabors’ claim to fame was his Andy Griffith Show character of Gomer Pyle. For the rest of his career, despite his other talents, he would always be known to the public as Mayberry’s child-like and ...

Although actor George Lindsey, who played Goober Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show for several years, and the actor who played his cousin Gomer Pyle, Jim Nabors, may have appeared to be friendly kinfolk ...

Shortly after taking over "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing" in 2013, Indianapolis Motor Speedway President Doug Boles hit his first major bump in the road: Jim Nabors, the actor who had anchored one ...

Though he has been whispering it to confidants for decades, the news emerged in mass media just today: The artist formerly known as Gomer Pyle is gay. A stalwart of Indianapolis 500 festivities, Jim ...

HONOLULU (AP) — A celebration of actor Jim Nabors’ 85th birthday and 40th anniversary brought nearly 300 people to his Honolulu lawn. Messages rolled in from across the country for the man who ...

Jim Nabors, the actor best known for playing the character Gomer Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show in the 1960s, died at his home Thursday morning in Hawaii. He was 87. Nabors' partner, Stan Cadwallader, ...

Jim Nabors, the Southern gentleman whom Carol Burnett once famously called her "lucky charm," has decided to call it quits from show business and says he will perform what likely will be his final ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Actor Jim Nabors says this year’s Indianapolis 500 will be the last time he performs “Back Home Again in Indiana” live to a global audience of race fans. The 83-year-old Nabors ...

This was the first show in a 2 year run for Jim Nabors following the end of his highly popular Gomer Pyle USMC. Mr. Nabors brought Ronnie Schnell and Frank Sutton from Gomer Pyle to help star in this ...

HONOLULU (AP) -- Jim Nabors, the shy Alabaman whose down-home comedy made him a TV star as Gomer Pyle and whose surprisingly operatic voice kept him a favorite in Las Vegas and other showplaces, died ...

This is from the online archives of The Star of North Augusta, a collection of more than 25,000 articles published from October 2007 to February 2022. HONOLULU — Jim Nabors, the shy Alabaman whose ...