Known for:	A Face in the Crowd, No Time for Sergeants, Spy Hard
Birth name:	Andy Samuel Griffith
Birthday:	1 June 1926, Mount Airy, North Carolina, USA
Height:	6' (1.83 m)

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Linda Purl (seen here with Ron Howard) has appeared on shows like "The Waltons" and "Happy Days," but is probably best known as Andy Griffith's daughter Charlene Matlock on the first season of '80s TV series "Matlock." Guess what she looks like now!...

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Ron Howard never will be returning to Mayberry for an "Andy Griffith Show" movie -- unless, by some miracle, Don Knotts decides to make a career comeback from beyond the grave.

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AP - As the election nears, Ron Howard is getting desperate.
Opie's back! Hollywood director Ron Howard revives his '60s boyhood role as Opie Taylor on the "Andy Griffith Show" in a new ad urging people to vote for Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama. Howard also revisits his "Happy Days" character Richie Cunningham and appears with former co-star Henry "Fonzie" Winkler.  Andy Griffith himself, now 82 years old, also makes an appearance as Sheriff Andy Taylor in the ad, telling Opie that he can one day grow up to vote for Barack Obama. Photo: Getty Images

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AP - Brad Paisley says he got to mark a biggie off his wish list when Andy Griffith agreed to be in the video for his new single, "Waitin' On a Woman."
Reuters - Earle Hagen, the prolific Emmy-winning composer of theme songs for "The Andy Griffith Show," "The Dick Van Dyke Show," "That Girl" and "The Mod Squad" died of natural causes at his home near San Diego on Monday. He was 88.
American TV veteran ANDY GRIFFITH has returned to the small screen at the age of 81, to help a local political become North Carolina’s Governor.The actor has shot a TV commercial endorsing the state’s Lieutenant Governor Beverly Perdue’s Democratic nomination.Griffith, a native of Mount Airey, North Carolina, carries considerable political weight in the state -
Move over Crockett and Tubbs, Andy and Barney round up Mayberry's swindlers, crooks, and cheats when TV Land airs "Mayberry Vice," a two-night marathon of The Andy Griffith Show.


AP - At age 81, Andy Griffith has been discovered. Sure, he'll always be known as Sheriff Andy Taylor, the gentle father to son Opie and gunless lawman in Mayberry who dispensed a homegrown wisdom on the "The Andy Griffith Show." Or as the disheveled yet shrewd Atlanta defense lawyer Ben Matlock.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - At age 81, Andy Griffith has been discovered. Sure, he'll always be known as Sheriff Andy Taylor, the gentle father to son Opie and gunless lawman in Mayberry who dispensed a homegrown wisdom on the ''The Andy Griffith Show.'' Or as the disheveled yet shrewd Atlanta defense lawyer Ben Matlock.


The suit claimed William Harold Fenrick violated trademark and copyright laws and the actor's privacy after he changed his name last year to Andrew Jackson Griffith.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A man who changed his name to Andy Griffith and ran for sheriff did not harm the actor who played Mayberry's folksy sheriff on the Andy Griffith Show, a federal judge ruled.


AP - A man who changed his name to Andy Griffith and ran for sheriff did not harm the actor who played Mayberry's folksy sheriff on the "Andy Griffith Show," a federal judge ruled.

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