LOS ANGELES Don Knotts, who kept generations of TV audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on "The Andy Griffith Show" and would-be swinger landlord Ralph Furley on "Three's Company," has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you watch reruns of The Andy Griffith Show—most notably its first five seasons—you can't help but get taken in by the ...

Before America ever laughed at Don Knotts, fear had already shaped him. Long before Barney Fife trembled his way into television history on The Andy Griffith Show, Knotts had learned how to survive by ...