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Old 05-07-2012, 10:38 AM
 
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Comic actor George Lindsey, best known for playing "Goober" Pyle on the "Andy Griffith Show" and for his stint on country variety show "Hee Haw", died Sunday morning in Nashville at the age of 83.
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Old 05-07-2012, 10:46 AM
 
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Luckiest man on the planet. Stumbled into the Andy Griffith Show and got a nice little annuity for the rest of his life. The man barely worked over the past 40 years. Sad to see him go, however.
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Old 05-07-2012, 11:20 AM
 
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"The George Lindsey UNA Film Festival was founded by celebrated entertainer George Lindsey... well known for his role of Goober Pyle on the "Andy Griffith Show"..."

George Lindsey UNA Film Festival

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Lindsey was the beanie-wearing Goober on “The Andy Griffith Show” from 1964 to 1968 and its successor, “Mayberry RFD,” from 1968 to 1971. He played the same jovial character — a service station attendant — on “Hee Haw” from 1971 until it went out of production in 1993.

“America has grown up with me,” Lindsey said in an Associated Press interview in 1985. “Goober is every man; everyone finds something to like about ol’ Goober.”

...Although he was best known as Goober, Lindsey had other roles during a long TV career. Earlier, he often was a “heavy” and once shot Matt Dillon on “Gunsmoke.”

...Lindsey devoted much of his spare time to raising funds for the Alabama Special Olympics. For 17 years, he sponsored a celebrity golf tournament in Montgomery, Ala., that raised money for the mentally disabled.
George Lindsey, film festival namesake, dies - TimesDaily.com

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George Lindsey was born in Fairfield in populous Jefferson County, Alabama, and reared in the small town of Jasper, Alabama. Lindsey graduated from Walker High School in 1946 and then attended Kemper Military School in Boonville, Missouri, and Florence State College in Florence (now the University of North Alabama), from which he received a Bachelor of Bioscience in 1952. Upon graduation from college he joined the U.S. Air Force and was stationed at Ramey AFB in Puerto Rico. After discharge from the Air Force, he taught public school for one year at Hazel Green High School in Hazel Green, Alabama, near Huntsville, while awaiting acceptance to the American Theater Wing in New York City. Upon graduation from American Theater Wing and two Broadway plays he moved to Los Angeles.
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Old 05-09-2012, 10:08 AM
 
Location: Alabama!
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Luckiest man on the planet. Stumbled into the Andy Griffith Show and got a nice little annuity for the rest of his life. The man barely worked over the past 40 years. Sad to see him go, however.
He stayed fairly busy. Check out the links above.
One way or another, he made a difference.
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Old 05-09-2012, 10:11 AM
 
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He stayed fairly busy. Check out the links above.
One way or another, he made a difference.
I don't mean to imply that he sat around in a lounge chair for the rest of his days. But the guy never again had to bust it. He could dabble instead and only stay pleasantly busy.
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