Interviews &
Clips
News
Awards &
Nominations

Andy Griffith

:

Overview

Andy Griffith
Avg.User Rating: 
56 Ratings
Rate this person:
Actor
Born:
June 1, 1926 in Mount Airy, NC
Biography:At first intending to become a minister, actor/monologist Andy Griffith became active with the Carolina Playmakers, the prestigious drama-and-music adjunct of the University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill. He spent several seasons portraying Sir Walter Raleigh in the summertime outdoor drama The Lost Colony, spending the rest of the years as a schoolteacher. Griffith continued performing fitfully as an after-dinner speaker on the men's club circuit, developing hilariously bucolic routines on subjects ranging from Shakespeare to football. Under the aegis of agent/producer Richard O. Linke, Griffith returned to acting, attaining stardom in the role of bumptious Air Force rookie Will Stockdale in the TV and Broadway productions of "No Time For Sergeants". Before committing "Sergeants" to film, Griffith made his movie debut in director Elia Kazan's "A Face in the Crowd", in which he portrayed an outwardly... Full Biography
Photos
Cast members from "The Andy Griffith Show" pose in this undated photo. From left: Don Knotts as...
Oscar best-director nominee Ron Howard poses in his Los Angeles office on March 6, 2002. Howard is...
Child actor Ron Howard, in character as Opie, looks at a goat during a pause in filming of the...
Child star-turned-director Ron Howard shows off his hands to the crowd after placing them in wet...
Keri Russell and Andy Griffith in "Waitress" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Jim Nabors and Andy Griffith
Jim Nabors and Andy Griffith
advertisement