Jim Nabors, known for playing the good-natured if slow-witted bumpkin Gomer Pyle on “The Andy Griffith Show” and “Gomer Pyle: USMC,” has died, Fox 8 reported. He was 87. Nabors, an Alabama native, was ...
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 ...
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 had some very funny TV moments as Gomer Pyle. Many are recalling him saying "Sha-zaaam" and "G-a-w-leeeee," now that the actor, singer and Indianapolis 500 icon has died at the age of 87.
Though he wasn’t one of the original characters of The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle is just as notable as the other characters. In fact, the character was such a hit, he got his own spinoff of the ...
Jim Nabors, who starred as the bumbling gas-station-attendant-turned-Marine Gomer Pyle on “The Andy Griffith Show” and his own subsequent spinoff, died Thursday morning in Hawaii. He was 87. His death ...
HONOLULU --Jim Nabors, the shy Alabaman whose down-home comedy made him a TV star as Gomer Pyle and whose surprisingly operatic voice kept him a favorite in Las Vegas and other showplaces, died ...
Jim Nabors, who used a backwoods twang to play TV’s Gomer Pyle, and deployed a precise baritone to become a popular singer, died peacefully Thursday at his home in Hawaii. He was 87. The death was ...
After 37 years, fictional Pfc. Gomer Pyle has achieved the promotion to lance corporal that eluded him during five years in the Marine Corps on the popular television sitcom in the 1960s. Actor Jim ...