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It’s the town you know and love from “The Andy Griffith Show.” If you watched the 1960s sitcom, you may remember the quirky barber who could never seem to trim those sideburns evenly, Floyd ...
“His portrayal of Floyd the barber was unquestionably one of the finest comic characterizations in television.” Andy Griffith told the book’s author that McNear “was a nervous man and he ...
As a funny, feisty, and flirtatious character, Charlene was just one of the many great side characters that populated the world of The Andy Griffith Show. Floyd Lawson was the town barber in The ...
Most of the other stars – Andy Griffith; Don Knotts, who played his deputy, Barney Fife; and the actors who played Aunt Bee and Floyd the Barber – they've all passed on. After all, it's been ...
“His portrayal of Floyd the barber was unquestionably one of the finest comic characterizations in television.” After a 1963 stroke, McNear returned to work on The Andy Griffith Show in 196 ...
Most of the other stars – Andy Griffith; Don Knotts, who played his deputy, Barney Fife; and the actors who played Aunt Bee and Floyd the Barber – they've all passed on. After all, it's been ...
Andy Griffith was the “TV dad” for millions of viewers, but he was Dixie Griffith’s actual father. At home in real life, Dixie says the beloved actor was, “a hands-on dad. We had so much ...
Next door is Floyd’s Barber Shop, another show locale ... when a section of Highway 52 was renamed Andy Griffith Parkway.) Stage shows are presented in the Andy Griffith Playhouse.
Floyd the Barber, Otis the Drunk and, of course, Gomer Pyle. Join us as we look at the real-life relationships of The Andy Griffith Show cast, those eight actors married or in long-term ...
Dixie Griffith, daughter of Andy Griffith (left) and Allen Newsome as Floyd the Barber. “It’s becoming known,” Granville Museum – Historic Granville President Randall Clemons said about ...
like Floyd’s City Barber Shop, for references in “The Andy Griffith Show,” the folksy comedy set in the idyllic fictional small town of Mayberry that first aired in 1960. And yet even as ...