Tag: Gomer

01 DEC

Jim Nabors, TV's Gomer Pyle and voice of the Indy 500, dies at 87

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 at age 87, his website said. Nabors, who later became a star with his own television show “Gomer Pyle, USMC,” died at his home in […]

30 NOV

Gomer Pyle Star Jim Nabors Dead at 87

Jim Nabors, who starred as Gomer Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show and its spinoff Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., has died. He was 87. Nabors passed away on Thursday morning, according to Hawaii News Now. A cause of death has not been reported. Nabors made his first appearance as Gomer Pyle in Andy Griffith‘s Season 3 episode “The Bank Job.” What was […]