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 ...

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. Jim Nabors, who gave popular culture its most enduring image of a wide-eyed, good-natured if none too bright hayseed in a ...

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.

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. is an American situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from September 25, 1964, to May 2, 1969. The series was a spinoff of The Andy Griffith Show, and the pilot was aired ...

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, 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.