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.

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.

2010 saw Andy Smith win for a 3rd consecutive time at Coventry, the same venue as his 1st win in 2006.

In 2009, WotC released The Village of Hommlet, by Andy Collins, which updated Gary Gygax's original 1st edition Village of Hommlet to the 4th edition rules.

According to John Lindow, Andy Orchard, and Rudolf Simek the einherjar are commonly connected to the Harii, a Germanic tribe attested by Tacitus in his 1st century CE work Germania.

The character of Andy Mitchell, the young constable in the film who embarks on a perilous quest to find and bring Tom Riley to justice, became a detective named Andy Crawford ( Peter Byrne ), in the CID at Dock Green, and he was married to Dixon's 23-year-old daughter, Mary, in the 19th episode, Father-in-Law ( 1st Sept 1956 ).

* Andy Hui 許志安, b. 1967, Hong Kong singer, actor, quarter of Big Four and 1st runner up of the 5th annual New Talent Singing Awards

Then, in 2008, he unsuccessfully ran for Congress in Maryland's 1st congressional district, against incumbent Wayne Gilchrest and State Senator Andy Harris, losing the primary to Andy Harris.

On April 7, 1970, he led off the bottom of the 1st against California Angels right-hander Andy Messersmith.

frontman Andy Cairns, Wildhearts drummers Ritch Battersby ( 1st set ) and Stidi ( 2nd set ), Professionals guitarist Ray McVeigh and Libertines frontman Carl Barât for a selection of classic punk rock songs.

The band members are: Tony Solis ( 1st Vocals ) Mauro Posadas, songwriter and leader ( guitar ) Gerardo Izaguirre ( bass guitar ) Claudio Montano ( keyboards ) Mauro Posadas Jr. ( drums ) Andy Zuniga ( percusions and 2nd vocals ).

In July 2009 Matt successfully achieved the grade of 1st dan black belt in the British Free Fighting Academy, after training with martial arts instructor Andy Hopwood.

True to his dominant 2007 regular season form, Hernández, in his 1st career postseason game in Game 2 of the 2007 ALDS against the Yankees and Andy Pettitte, allowed 1 earned run on 3 hits over 9 innings in an extra-inning win for Cleveland.

* Two-Phazed People with Horace Andy ( 1st August 2009 )

* Andy Warhol: A Documentary film by Ric Burns for PBS

Love worked with director Alex Cox on her first two films ; she gained a small part in the Sid Vicious biopic Sid and Nancy ( 1986 ), and was then given the leading role in his following film, Straight to Hell ( 1987 ), which caught the attention of artist Andy Warhol.

He made an uncredited appearance as Sam Green, the man who introduced Andy Warhol to Edie Sedgwick, in the 2006 film Factory Girl.

Déjà vu provides a plot point in The Matrix, a 1999 science fiction-action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski.

The film, directed and produced by Silvio Sardi and narrated by Andy Garcia, won Best Documentary at the Beverly Hills Film Festival after a premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.

* 1940 – Baby Jane Holzer, American art collector, film producer and Andy Warhol " superstar "

* Bloodthirsty Butchers ( 1970 ), a horror film with John Miranda as Sweeney Todd and Jane Helay as Maggie Lovett, directed by Andy Milligan.

Lana Wachowski ( born Laurence " Larry " Wachowski ; June 21, 1965 ) and Andrew Paul " Andy " Wachowski ( born December 29, 1967 ), known together professionally as The Wachowskis and Wachowski Starship, and formerly as the Wachowski Brothers, are American film directors, writers and producers.

In the 1966 Direct Cinema film Chelsea Girls, Andy Warhol filmed various acquaintances with no direction given ; the Radio Times Guide to Film 2007 stated that the film was " to blame for reality television.

He also appeared in the Amos ' n ' Andy film Check and Double Check ( 1930 ).

Hotel Chelsea is often associated with the Warhol superstars, as Andy Warhol and Paul Morrisey directed Chelsea Girls ( 1966 ), a film about his Factory regulars and their lives at the hotel.

Inspired by the game, the British photographer Andy Gotts tried to reach Bacon through photographic links instead of film links.

* In the film The 40-Year-Old Virgin, main character Andy Stitzer is mocked for having a framed Asia poster in his apartment.

Under the Museum of Modern Art Department of Film, the film collection owns prints of many familiar feature-length movies, including Citizen Kane and Vertigo, but the department's holdings also contains many less-traditional pieces, including Andy Warhol's eight-hour Empire, various TV commercials, and Chris Cunningham's music video for Björk's All Is Full of Love.

Pickens appeared in dozens of films, including Old Oklahoma Plains ( 1952 ), Down Laredo Way ( 1953 ), One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 ) with Marlon Brando, Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ), Major Dundee ( 1965 ) with Charlton Heston, the remake of Stagecoach ( 1966 ; Pickens played the driver, portrayed in the 1939 film by Andy Devine ), Never a Dull Moment ( 1968 ), The Cowboys ( 1972 ) with John Wayne, Ginger in the Morning ( 1974 ) with Fred Ward, Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), Poor Pretty Eddy ( 1975 ), Rancho Deluxe ( 1975 ), The Getaway with Steve McQueen, Tom Horn ( 1980 ), also with McQueen, An Eye for an Eye ( 1966 ) and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) in a small but memorable role.

Nick Mancuso, Andy Romano, and Dale Dye were the only other cast members besides Seagal to reprise their roles from the first film.

Horace Andy was invited back to sing on three songs, including " Angel " and a track the band made for the film The Jackal, " Dissolved Girl ", sung by Sara Jay, was remixed for inclusion on the record.

Love Finds Andy Hardy is a 1938 romantic comedy film which tells the story of a teenage boy who becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time.

* Mickey Rooney began to receive " star billing " in subsequent films due to his success in Love Finds Andy Hardy, and worked on this film simultaneously with Boys Town.

He co-starred alongside Andy Griffith in Winter Kill, a television film made as the pilot of a possible television series, and another one, Adams of Eagle Lake, but neither was picked up as a series.

Her big break came in the 1985 film The Goonies, in which she played cheerleader-turned-adventurer Andrea " Andy " Carmichael.

Plimpton continued to make appearances in featured roles in both independent films and mainstream movies from 1994 through 1997, most notably as a close friend of radical feminist Valerie Solanas in the film I Shot Andy Warhol.