The sitcom was a hit spinoff of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and focused on the eponymous character played by actor and singer Jim Nabors Character actor Ronnie Schell has died Schell played Pvt. Duke ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jim Nabors, who gave popular culture its most enduring image of a wide-eyed, good-natured if none too bright hayseed in a ...

Pyle was an oafish, childlike employee at the local Mayberry gas station. Thanks to Nabors’ comedic chops, however, he quickly became one of the most popular characters in the series. When Pyle wasn’t ...

Jim Nabors’ claim to fame was his Andy Griffith Show character of Gomer Pyle. For the rest of his career, despite his other talents, he would always be known to the public as Mayberry’s child-like and ...

Gomer Pyle might have started as a humble garage mechanic from Mayberry who stumbled into the U.S. Marine Corps, but his lessons in heart and honesty stuck with audiences for decades. On Gomer Pyle, U ...

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Ronnie Schell, who played Gomer Pyle's best friend on the CBS sitcom, has died at the age of 94. The veteran actor passed away from natural causes at UCLA Medical Center, according to his family.