Images: Andy Griffith 1926 - 2012
This undated file image originally released by Viacom shows cast members from The Andy Griffith Show, from left, Don Knotts as Deputy Barney Fife, Ron Howard as Opie Taylor and Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor. Griffith, whose homespun mix of humor and wisdom made The Andy Griffith Show an enduring TV favorite, died Tuesday, July 3, 2012 in Manteo, N.C. He was 86.
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Actor Andy Griffith and Dick Van Dyke pose on the set of the series? Matlock? in which Griffith stars in March 1986.
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This Feb. 23, 1979 file photo shows actor Andy Griffith on the set of TVs Salvage-1 near Los Angeles. Griffith, whose homespun mix of humor and wisdom made The Andy Griffith Show an enduring TV favorite, died Tuesday, July 3, 2012 in Manteo, N.C. He was 86.
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This Jan. 31, 1983 file photo shows actor Andy Griffith posing in Los Angeles to promote his upcoming CBS-TV film, Murder in Coweta County. Griffith, whose homespun mix of humor and wisdom made The Andy Griffith Show an enduring TV favorite, died Tuesday, July 3, 2012 in Manteo, N.C. He was 86.
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Andy Griffith laughs it up with Don Knotts while taping a television program on Oct. 20, 1967.
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Andy Griffith (right) as Sheriff Andy Taylor and Don Knotts (left) as Deputy Barney Fife, in a scene from the The Andy Griffith Show, Jan. 24, 1963.
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Miss Tennessee (Mickey Wayland of Knoxville) bears up under tribute by two stars of Broadway musical,? Destry Rides Again?, backstage before performance on Sept. 3, 1959. Comedian Andy Griffith, who has the title role, is at right. Art Lund is at left. All three are from below the Mason-Dixon Line. From left are, Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina.
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Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel A. Carswell of Nashville listen to Andy Griffith, star of? Destry Rides Again,? as he plays guitar in his dressing room backstage at the Imperial Theater, Nov. 4, 1959 in New York.
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Comedian/ actor Andy Griffith is shown on the studio lot in Los Angeles Sept. 3, 1977.
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Andy Griffith, right, star of the Broadway musical? Destry Rides Again? and a native of North Carolina, pins a badge on the lapel of Ernest F. Hollings, governor of South Carolina, after performance at night on May 21, 1959 in the Imperial Theater, New York.
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This Jan. 1983 file photo shows actor Andy Griffith posing in Los Angeles to promote his upcoming CBS-TV film, Murder in Coweta County. Griffith, whose homespun mix of humor and wisdom made The Andy Griffith Show an enduring TV favorite, died Tuesday, July 3, 2012 in Manteo, N.C. He was 86.
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Andy Griffith, star of the New York stage play No Time for Sergeants, ponders the problems of a cameraman at Warner Brothers studio in Burbank, Nov. 8, 1957 where he is working in Onionhead. The movie is a story of a recruit in the U.S. Coast Guard, played by Griffith, who loses all his hair and is dubbed Onionhead by his crew mates.
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Actors Jim Nabors, left, and Andy Griffith arrive to CBSs 75th anniversary celebration Sunday, Nov. 2, 2003, in New York.
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U.S. Army paratroopers, Pfc. Lessie Smith, left, of Cleveland, O., and Sgt. James Closson, right, of Everett, Mass., whose parachutes entangled during jump in recent Kentucky maneuvers, see stage version of similar incident as the Alvin Theater in New York City, Feb. 22, 1956. Actors Andy Griffith and Roddy McDowell, hanging on, of the cast of? not time for sergeants? create paratrooper? s predicament, a scene in the Broadway production. Soldiers were invited to see the play. They are with airborne division at Ft. Campbell, KY.
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Actor Andy Griffith reads poem after North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue was sworn into office during North Carolina inaugural ceremonies Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009 at the State Library building in Raleigh, N.C.
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Actor Andy Griffith is all smiles following his being named top male performer in a new TV program,? Matlock?, at the 13th Annual People? s Choice Awards, Sunday, March 15, 1987 in Santa Monica, California.
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Actor Andy Griffith reads poem after North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue was sworn into office during North Carolina inaugural ceremonies Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009 at the State Library building in Raleigh, N.C.
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