CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- He was a vocalist, an actor, a stand-up comic, a producer and once even a schoolteacher, but we knew him best for creating the mythic Mayberry, a Camelot in bib overalls where ...

Although not a man normally associated with irony, Andy Griffith’s early career took a 180-degree twist of almost Shakespearean dimensions. After galvanizing audiences as Lonesome Rhodes, a ...

This photo of Andy Griffith was taken during season 6 of The Andy Griffith Show on the Deilu lot. Here he's standing in front of his publicity portrait that was hanging there. 5.

Andy Griffith and wife (the former Barbara Edwards) looking over the script of his coming movie, “The Face in the Crowd,” at the Norfolk Airport. Virginian-Pilot photo by Perry Breon Unpublished ...

Andy Griffith with Jeff Bridges in ‘Hearts of the West’ Image Credit: Photo Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1975: After leaving The Andy Griffith Show in 1967, he embarked on a film career.

Well now, I tell ya, there's just somethin' about the town of Mayberry on The Andy Griffith Show that makes folks wanna slow down a bit, take a deep breath and just enjoy the simple things in life.