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Don Knotts

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Don Knotts was born in a poor family in West Virginia, the USA, on 21st July 1924. Born as Jesse Donald Knotts, he was famous for his thin figure and for playing a Deputy in the 1960s famous show The Andy Griffith Show on CBS. He is also famous for his role as Ralph Furley in a sitcom called Three’s Company, which aired in the 70s on ABC. Coming from a poor and also a dysfunctional family, Knott’s father was a paranoid schizophrenic. He needed a way out of that life and hence moved to LA.

He was a talented person and he began his career with performing as a ventriloquist. He volunteered to join the army at nineteen and entertained the troops during his journey with them. And he also performed many shows for them called Stars and Grips. Don had that inherited Southern accent in him which made it difficult for him to find a job in the industry. He came to make it big either as a stand-up guy or a ventriloquist, but he was rejected because of his thick accent. That was a lesson for Don, and hence he enrolled himself into college. He took a major in education and was said to take a strong minor in speech.

After which he was ready to be back in the showbiz. Don was chosen to play an old character in the radio western called Bobby Benson. He was twenty-five years old apparently when he was reprising the role of Windy Wales. Don met Southern boy Andy Griffith when Don was working in the play No Time for Sergeants. The two’s friendship grew deep, and both were seen on Broadway for about two years. The play No Time for Sergeants was later made a movie which had both Don and Andy reprising their original characters. This marked Don’s first movie in his career. Don was seen in funny and humorous characters on television shows in the 50s like Search for Tomorrow, and Steve Allen Show.

On the whole, Don has spent fifty years in this entertainment industry appearing in seven TV series and around twenty-five cinemas. He was also the celebrity who was immensely appreciated for his skills and was given five Emmy Awards for his acting. Don’s friendship with Andy continued and Don wanted to be part of the project The Andy Griffith Show. Don, it seemed had insisted on developing a role for a Deputy for the Sheriff played by Andy. Don’s role as Deputy Fife became popular for his physical comedy and his funny demeanor and ignorance of being a law person. Stealing the thunder from the Sheriff, aka Andy, was heard saying that he wished to be funnier in the show.

Don received his Emmy Award for his supporting role as Deputy Fife in 1960s. The show was telecasted from 1960 through 1968, and this one was his most memorable show ever. Don departed Mayberry and had his show on NBC called The Don Knotts Show in 1970. The show also featured skits from Gary Burghoff. He then acted in movies like The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964), The Ghost The Ghost is a Pakistani drama series in Urdu. It >> Read More... and Mr. Chicken released in 1966, and science fiction cinema The Reluctant Astronaut in 1967 with Universal Pictures. Don’s role in Limpet movie earned him critical acclaim where he transforms himself into a fish to fight the Nazis.

Most of Don’s movies are a mix of animation and live action movies like that of Space Jam. Don plays the Nervous Man in Martin Short’s Steve Allen Show in 1950s. This role brought about Don’s acting skills and Martin considered him as a great influence at that time. After making few family movies, he began gaining a fan base among the children. The specialty of Don’s characters in the movies he acted was that, no matter how many mistakes he made or how much incapability he exhibited, the character would always overcome it by the end of the movie. In 1979, Don appeared in yet another character which made him immortal.

He was playing the Landlord along with John Ritter Jonathan Southworth Ritter, born on September 17th >> Read More... and Susan Summers in Three’s Company. He also made many comedies with Tim Conway: The Prize Fighter, The Apple Dumpling Gang, and Gus. In Hermie and Friends Videos, Don and Conway appeared as worm characters. Don was also seen alongside Griffith in Matlock, where Don played the role of a neighbor. Don worked with a lot of comedians, and the list includes Jonathan Winters and Buster Keeter, with whom he appeared on comedies It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World in 1963. Along with The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, other movies were The Shakiest Gun in the West and Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo Click to look into! >> Read More... in 1977.

Don was part of a movie project ‘Pleasantville’ where he plays the character of a television repairman. It was a sci-fi movie, and it was released in 1998. Don married thrice, at least as far as it is concerned; he married Kathyrn Metz in 1947 and had two kids with her. After the divorce, he was said to have married Loralee Czuchna and later in 2002; he married Francey Yarborough.

On 24th February 2006, Don took his last breath yielding to lung cancer in LA. Most of his characters were funny with rare exceptions, and one such non-comedic show in which Don was cast briefly was a drama named Search For Tomorrow. His last movie was in 2005, where he was part of the Disney film Chicken Little where he gave voice-over to Mayor Turkey Lurkey.

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