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[b][color:#3333FF]Link...![/color][/b] Friend and former UNC President Bill Friday has said Andy Griffith has died, while the Dare County Sheriff's Department confirms that they rushed to his home in North Carolina this morning. The actor was best known for The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry RFD, and Matlock and for playing Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes in Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd. [WITN News]
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Wow! One of my favorites for sure. R I P Andy.
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Enjoyed his shows but not his politics. RIP. Ernie
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Anyone else remember a made-for-tv movie called "Pray for the Wildcats" where he was the leader of some bad guy desert dirt-bikers?
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"No Time for Sergeants" is classic Griffith, too. Funny guy. R.I.P. Didn't like his politics, either, but he was funny.
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RIP. I have always enjoyed the black and white seasons of the Andy Griffith Show. Not so much after they switched to color. Andy's character totally changed after that, for some reason, and Barney had left.
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Didnt he used to do tv commercials also?
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I loved Andy Griffith and all his shows , but lost all of my respect for the man after he became a ragging Liberal in his later years.
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"No Time for Sergeants" is classic Griffith, too.
Yep, great movie, that I used to enjoy, before....
...but lost all of my respect for the man after he became a ragging Liberal in his later years.
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Didnt he used to do tv commercials also?
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Here is one of his Commercials
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I've tried really hard to pretend I didn't know about his politics of late and will use his passing as an effort to redouble those efforts.
"No Time for Sargeants" was one of my dad's all time favorite movies. I believe that is the hardest I ever saw him laugh.
For that reason alone, even though I pretty much enjoyed all his works, may you rest in peace Mr. Griffith. Another fond childhood memory suffers the harsh bite of mortal reality.
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Too bad, but Ron Howard is picking up his Lib-mantra. These guys become rich from Hollywood, then they become liberals who know better how to spend my small income. I won't miss that at all, I'm sorry to say. Still, the early Mayberry was a great place; I wish we could go back there as a nation.
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another, he made a bunch of commercials
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Ron Howard must be about the last one alive from that show. I'm a big Andy Griffith Show fan, but only the black and whites. The later ones were terrible. RIP
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Didnt he used to do tv commercials also?
Goooooood cracker. Good cracker."
Yes, and another of himself seated at a restaurant table, after a short raving review of said eating establishment I remember him saying "MMMMM Lets Eat" LOL
FRIP Mr. Griffith.
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Also like his musical production with Brad Paisley? "Waitin' on a Woman"? [there were never truer words spoken in the history of mankind]
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