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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsGoober has died . 'Andy Griffith Show' Actor Goober Pyle Dies At 83
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/06/george-lindsey-dead-andy-griffith-show-goober-pyle-dies-83_n_1490083.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009George Lindsey Dead: 'Andy Griffith Show' Actor Goober Pyle Dies At 83
NASHVILLE, Tenn. George Lindsey, who spent nearly 30 years as the grinning Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Hee Haw," has died. He was 83.
A press release from Marshall-Donnelly-Combs Funeral Home in Nashville said Lindsay died early Sunday morning after a brief illness. Funeral arrangements were still being made.
Lindsey was the beanie-wearing Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show" from 1964 to 1968 and its successor, "Mayberry RFD," from 1968 to 1971. He played the same jovial character a service station attendant on "Hee Haw" from 1971 until it went out of production in 1993.
"America has grown up with me," Lindsey said in an Associated Press interview in 1985. "Goober is every man; everyone finds something to like about ol' Goober."
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)He was a funny guy, very self-effacing, and spun a good yarn.
RIP, Goober. Thanks.
47of74
(18,470 posts)nolabear
(41,984 posts)He was really active in charity work and seemed to have done a lot for others. "Goober" got on my last nerve as a character but I loved the show and my husband's backgorund and family is from exactly where Mayberry would have been. It's beautiful up there, and though somewhat taken over by rich folks' vacation homes, the people who live there still have an interesting and deeply rooted life in those mountains.
Peace to Mr. Lindsey, who was really an Alabama boy but wore the South well in any guise.
Kaleva
(36,307 posts)That's gotta be a record or near record of some sort.
derby378
(30,252 posts)You will be sorely missed.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)He played a surgeon from a different M*A*S*H unit who traded places with one of the 4077th surgeons. The character wasn't entirely unlike Goober, though.