Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jim Nabors, who used a backwoods twang to play TV’s Gomer Pyle, and deployed a precise baritone to become a popular singer, died ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jim Nabors, the star who played the clumsy deputy sheriff Gomer Pyle on “The Andy Griffith Show” and eventually starred in his own spinoff, has died. He was 87. Nabors' husband, Stan Cadwallader, told ...

Jim Nabors — an actor best known as Gomer Pyle on the Andy Griffith Show — has died. The 87-year-old leaves behind a husband, millions of fans of his work on television and a rich catalog of music.

Jim Nabors, the singer and actor who became a TV icon in the 1960s playing the lovably naïve Gomer Pyle on “The Andy Griffith Show” and the spinoff series “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.,” has died. He was 87.