(Reuters) - Actor Jim Nabors, whose portrayal of the grinning country bumpkin Gomer Pyle on the 1960s television hit "The Andy Griffith Show" belied a classic baritone singing voice, died on Thursday ...

Pyle was an oafish, childlike employee at the local Mayberry gas station. Thanks to Nabors’ comedic chops, however, he quickly became one of the most popular characters in the series. When Pyle wasn’t ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Miles Heizer in Boots and Jim Nabors in Gomer Pyle: USMC In the mid-1960s, America tuned in weekly to watch Gomer Pyle, the ...

Jim Nabors, a singer and comic actor who played the bumbling but good-natured hayseed Gomer Pyle on “The Andy Griffith Show” before starring as an unlikely Marine recruit in “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.,” ...

Jim Nabors’ claim to fame was his Andy Griffith Show character of Gomer Pyle. For the rest of his career, despite his other talents, he would always be known to the public as Mayberry’s child-like and ...

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 ...

Jim Nabors, who starred as Gomer Pyle on "The Andy Griffith Show" and on his own sitcom before retiring the wide-eyed, countrified character at the height of his popularity, has died. He was 87. By ...

Jim Nabors made good on his last name when he brought Gomer Pyle to "The Andy Griffith Show." His big-hearted, ever-cheery gas-pump jockey was a neighborly fit in the easygoing town of Mayberry. But ...

Jim Nabors, who played the inscrutable naif Gomer Pyle on “The Andy Griffith Show” and “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.”, died Thursday, Nov. 30 at his home in Hawaii, according to the Associated Press. He was ...

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