George Lindsey graduated from the University of North Alabama in Florence, Alabama. He has been promoting the George Lindsey Film Festival there since 1998.
Although Lindsey has pretty much made a career out of playing variations of his most famous character, Goober from the "Andy Griffith Show"--a genial, good-hearted but somewhat slow-witted hick--Lindsey has a Bachelors Degree in BioScience from the University of Alabama and was a science teacher before deciding to become an actor. Disney used his talents in a handful of projects, both as comedy support in features and giving vocal life to a few of their animated characters. Former high school teacher and briefly a stand-up comic. Appeared in a couple of musicals ("All-American" and "Wonderful Town") before heading to Los Angeles in the early 60s.