People will be always remembering Andy Griffith Sheriff Andy Taylor on the “Andy Griffith Show” in the 1960s that marked his beginning as TV personality. The next generation might know him as the smart county defense lawyer from Atlanta as Ben Matlock in “Matlock” which ran in the mid 80s and 90s. Andy Griffith, a comdian, an American actor, a writer, a television producer, a musician, died at 7:00 am on July 3, 2012, at his home on Roanake Island in Dare County, North Carolina, at the age 86.
The Governor of North Carolina, Beverly Perdue, said “North Carolina has lost its favorite son,” and that “Andy Griffith graciously stepped into the living rooms of generations of Americans, always with the playful charm that made him the standard by which entertainers would be measured for decades … In an increasingly complicated world, we all yearn for the days of Mayberry.”
Andrew Samuel ”Andy“ Griffith was born as the only child on June 1, 1926. He had first the serious intentions of becoming a Moravian preacher, but he changed his major to music and became a part of the school’s Carolina Play Makers. At the University of North Carolina he earned a degree in dramatic arts in 1949 and started performing in singing groups along with his frat bros of the Phi Mu ALpha Sinfonia. Later on, he shifted from doing comedies to acting in over 13 films and in more than 30 television works, playing many and various roles, like a small-town sheriff in a television episode of “The Danny Thomas Show,” which led eventually to his big break in the “The Andy Griffith Show.” He was four times nominated for the Tony Award.
The Daily Woodhouse and the rest of the world bids an unforgettable icon good-bye.
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