Actor
and comedian George Lindsey, best known for playing the character
Goober Pyle on television, died Sunday in Nashville. He had been ill
since suffering a stroke in March.
He introduced the character of Goober — the
quintessential grinning hayseed, equal parts annoying and endearing — on
“The Andy Griffith Show,” the long-running situation comedy set in the
fictional North Carolina town of Mayberry. When Jim Nabors’s character,
the similarly likable but naïve Gomer Pyle, was given his own series in
1964, Mr. Lindsey joined the Griffith show as Goober Pyle, Gomer’s
cousin.
The character Goober made guest appearances on
Gomer Pyle, USMC, was also part of the TV series
Mayberry RFD, and was a regular on the variety show
Hee Haw for twenty years. Lindsey was 83.
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