Comedian Don Knotts, best known for his character Barney Fife on the CBS series “The Andy Griffith Show,” tries to transfer success onto the silver screen with “The Reluctant Astronaut.” ...

Don Knotts, the Little Guy Who Made It Big Making Us Laugh. February 26, 2006. By Paul Farhi. Don Knotts played a variation on the same character for more than 50 years -- on radio, in movies and ...

In 1955, on the stage of Broadway’s Alvin Theater, Andy Griffith and Don Knotts first bonded as they co-starred in the stage production of “No Times for Sergeants,” cementing a friendship ...

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 ...