02-25-2006, 05:44 PM
just got this over the wire at work..
INDEX: International, Entertainment, Television, Celebrity
HL:Actor Don Knotts, veteran television actor, dead at 81
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Don Knotts, the skinny, lovable nerd who kept generations of television audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show, has died.
He was 81.
Knotts died Friday night of pulmonary and respiratory complications at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, Calif., said Paul Ward, a spokesman for the cable network TV Land, which airs The Andy Griffith Show, and another Knotts hit, Three's Company.
INDEX: International, Entertainment, Television, Celebrity
HL:Actor Don Knotts, veteran television actor, dead at 81
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Don Knotts, the skinny, lovable nerd who kept generations of television audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show, has died.
He was 81.
Knotts died Friday night of pulmonary and respiratory complications at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, Calif., said Paul Ward, a spokesman for the cable network TV Land, which airs The Andy Griffith Show, and another Knotts hit, Three's Company.