Nabors, who died in 2017 at 87, became one of television’s most beloved personalities in the 1960s playing the lovably naive Gomer Pyle on “The Andy Griffith Show” and “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.” He later reprised Pyle’s character in the the television movie “Return to Mayberry.”
Source: Los Angeles Times August 22, 2018 17:03 UTC