He became a highly regarded character actor and guest-starred in many 1960s TV series including Ben Casey, The Twilight Zone, The Andy Griffith Show, Dr. Kildare and Hennesey.

This series was in the vein of other 1960s and 1970s sitcoms that dealt with widowhood, such as, The Andy Griffith Show, My Three Sons, and Family Affair.

For the 1959 Broadway musical starring Andy Griffith, see Destry Rides Again ( musical ).

Produced by David Merrick, the show had a book by Leonard Gershe, music and lyrics by Harold Rome, and starred Andy Griffith as Destry and Dolores Gray as Frenchy.

Among the later shows produced at Desilu were: The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lucy Show, and Star Trek.

* The Andy Griffith Show

George Lindsey ( reprising his " Goober " character from The Andy Griffith Show ),

* Goober's Garage: George Lindsay was the star of this regular skit where he'd play his Andy Griffith role, often talking about cars and jalopies with whichever cast member that appeared in the skit that week.

Films such as Sergeant York or the Ma and Pa Kettle series portrayed the hillbilly as wild but good-natured, and television programs of the 1960s, such as The Real McCoys, The Andy Griffith Show, and especially The Beverly Hillbillies portrayed the hillbilly as somewhat backward but with a wisdom that always outwitted more sophisticated city folk.

* 2012 – Andy Griffith, American actor, director, producer and writer ( b. 1926 )

* 1926 – Andy Griffith, American actor, singer, director, producer, and writer ( d. 2012 )

* Leon, a character on The Andy Griffith Show

Many important actors started their careers with Sennett, including Mabel Normand, Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Raymond Griffith, Gloria Swanson, Ford Sterling, Andy Clyde, Chester Conklin, Polly Moran, Louise Fazenda, The Keystone Kops, Bing Crosby, and W. C. Fields.

Among the irregular contributors with just a single Mad byline to their credit are Charles M. Schulz, Chevy Chase, " Weird Al " Yankovic, Andy Griffith, Will Eisner, Kevin Smith, J. Fred Muggs, Boris Vallejo, Sir John Tenniel, Jean Shepherd, Winona Ryder, Jimmy Kimmel, Jason Alexander, Walt Kelly, Rep. Barney Frank, Tom Wolfe, Steve Allen, Jim Lee, Jules Feiffer, Donald Knuth and Richard Nixon, who remains the only President credited with " writing " a Mad article.

** Andy Griffith, American actor ( d. 2012 )

Among the other actors he introduced to movie audiences were Warren Beatty, Carroll Baker, Julie Harris, Andy Griffith, Lee Remick, Rip Torn, Eli Wallach, Eva Marie Saint, Martin Balsam, Fred Gwynne, and Pat Hingle.

As a result of his efforts, he also gave actors such as Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Warren Beatty, Andy Griffith, James Dean, and Jack Palance, their first major movie roles.

His protagonist, played by Andy Griffith ( in his film debut ,) is not a politician, yet his career suddenly becomes deeply involved in politics.

Andy Griffith, in 1st film role, with Patricia Neal, from A Face in the Crowd ( 1957 )

Among the actors who describe Kazan as an important influence in their career were Patricia Neal, who co-starred with Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd ( 1957 ): " He was very good.

However, in order to get quality acting from Andy Griffith, in his first screen appearance, and achieve what Schickel calls " an astonishing movie debut ," Kazan would often take surprising measures.

** Andy Griffith, American actor ( b. 1926 )

" Otis " from The Andy Griffith Show is this type of town drunk, as shown in the character of Bobby Singer in the CW series Supernatural, and as are many of the denizens of Moe's Tavern from The Simpsons such as Barney Gumble.

* Andy Griffith

He came to prominence playing Opie Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show for eight years, and later the teenaged Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days for six years.

Recurring characters on SNL played by Guest include Frankie, of Willie and Frankie ( coworkers who recount in detail physically painful situations in which they have found themselves, remarking laconically " I hate when that happens "); Herb Minkman, a shady novelty toymaker with a brother named Al ( played by Crystal ); Rajeev Vindaloo, an eccentric foreign man in the same vein as Andy Kaufman's Latka character from Taxi ; and Senor Cosa, a Spanish ventriloquist often seen on the recurring spoof of The Joe Franklin Show.

Producing are Kevin Shinick ( Robot Chicken ) and Mark Marek ( KaBlam !, The Andy Milonakis Show ).

The most prominent American TV series of the 1960s include: The Ed Sullivan Show, Peyton Place, Star Trek, I Dream of Jeannie, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, The Andy Williams Show, The Dean Martin Show, The Wonderful World of Disney, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Beverly Hillbillies, Bonanza, McHale's Navy, Laugh-In, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Fugitive, The Tonight Show, Gunsmoke, Mission: Impossible, The Flintstones, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Lassie, The Danny Thomas Show, The Lucy Show, My Three Sons, The Red Skelton Show and Bewitched.

She made numerous guest appearances on television shows, singing on The Frank Sinatra Show, The Andy Williams Show, The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, and alongside other greats Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Mel Tormé, and many others.

They rented a house on the block south of the Desilu Studios, where The Andy Griffith Show would later be filmed.

Howard with Andy Griffith in The Andy Griffith Show, circa 1961

** Steven Lasker & Andy McKaie ( producers ) for Billie Holiday-The Complete Decca Recordings

** Steven Lasker & Andy McKaie ( producers ) for Billie Holiday-The Complete Decca Recordings

She is also the author or collector of cooking materials, including the 1961 book Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Cook Book illustrated by Andy Warhol.

Complete Warrior was written by Andy Collins, David Noonan, and Ed Stark, and was published in November 2003.

* Andy Anderson as Lachie Renford ( Series 1 )

For Series Six, Andy Hamilton returned to the style of the original series, with most of the action taking place in Hell.

* Andy Taylor on " The Andy Griffith Show " ( TV Series ) ( Widower )

According to the DVD bonus film " Wowsers ", a retrospective featurette with co-creators Andy Heyward and Mike Maliani on the four-disc DVD set Inspector Gadget: The Original Series, Gadget went through approximately 150 sketches before reaching his final design.

The main writers for season 1-3 on Radio were Jon Holmes and Andy Hurst with Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain coming on board in Series 4.

Series finales can also serve as a lead-in to a spin-off series such as the finale of The Andy Griffith Show " Mayberry R. F. D.

The appearance of Odan — Trill hosts who have no spots, but ridges on their foreheads — is also explained ( in the novel Forged in Fire, by Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin ), where a strain of the Klingon Augment virus ( the disease responsible for the Human-like appearance of Klingons in the Original Series ) managed to infect a Trill colony when it was visited by Klingon traders.

* Andy Hallett, actor and singer who appeared on the WB's Angel ( TV Series ).

* He, Andy Murray, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic are the only non-North American tennis players who have appeared in the finals of all four ATP Masters Series events played on the continent ( Indian Wells, Miami, Montreal / Toronto and Cincinnati ).

These players include Andy Pafko ( who, coincidentally, played in the 1945 World Series as a Cub ), Gene Baker, Smoky Burgess, Don Hoak, Dale Long, Lou Brock ( whose first title was in after a mid-season trade to the St. Louis Cardinals ), Lou Johnson, Jim Brewer, Moe Drabowsky, Don Cardwell, Ken Holtzman, Billy North, Fred Norman, Bill Madlock, Manny Trillo, Greg Gross, Rick Monday, Burt Hooton, Bruce Sutter, Willie Hernández, Joe Niekro, Dennis Eckersley, Joe Carter, Greg Maddux, Joe Girardi ( as both a player and a manager ), José Vizcaíno, Glenallen Hill ( after his second stint with the Cubs ; his title came in after a mid-season trade ), Luis Gonzalez, Mike Morgan, Mark Grace, Mark Bellhorn, Bill Mueller, Scott Eyre ( whose title came in after he been traded from the Cubs during the season ), Tom Gordon, Matt Stairs, Jamie Moyer, in, Mark DeRosa and Mike Fontenot — the former of whom had been traded the offseason before, the latter having been traded that midseason, and in, Ryan Theriot who was traded the previous season.

The following week, David had a successul run to the quarterfinals in the Roger's Masters Series in Toronto, defeating David Ferrer, Tommy Robredo, and Robin Söderling, before Andy Murray ended his 11-match winning streak.

* Alle lieben Julia ( 1994 ) TV Series .... Andy ( 26 episodes )

However, he captured his sixth doubles title and first ATP Masters Series 1000 title with partner Andy Roddick.

* WKRP in Cincinnati TV Series .... Andy Travis ( 1978 – 1982 )

* Danny Cunningham as Fusilier Andy Butcher ( Series 5-7 )

He also returned to the Nationwide Series on a part-time basis, filling in for the injured Andy Santerre for Innovative Motorsports, his best finish fifth at California Speedway.

Until Andy Black's 5th place finish at the 2005 World Series of Poker main event, he was the top money-winning Irish poker player in the world.

Series star Andy Griffith addressed the fact that the two sometimes clashed during the series ' run.

Haas reached the quarterfinals of the Pacific Life Open, an ATP Masters Series tournament held in Indian Wells, California, where he lost to Scotland's Andy Murray in a third-set tiebreaker.

With the Series tied at two apiece, John Smoltz and Andy Pettitte faced off in a pitcher's duel in the final game ever at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium and gave up a total of zero earned runs in the combined they pitched.

In Game 2, the Bombers would go up 2 – 0 in the Series thanks to a dreadful outing by San Diego starter Andy Ashby.

The actual musicians behind Servotron are Brian Teasley ( Z4-OBX ), Hayden Thais ( 00zX1 ), Ashley Moody ( Proto Unit V3 ) and Andy Baker ( Andro 600 Series ).

In the 2002 ATP Masters Series of Canada, an unseeded Cañas won his first ATP Masters Series title in Toronto, defeating Andy Roddick 6 – 4, 7 – 5 in the final.