Jim Nabors - # 175

Jim Nabors, Gomer Pyle on 'The Andy Griffith Show,' dead at 87

He was number 175 on the list.

Jim Nabors, a singer and actor best known for his role as Gomer Pyle on "The Andy Griffith Show," has died, according to family friend and CNN affiliate KHNL-KGMB producer Phil Arnone.

He was 87.

Nabors died in Honolulu early Thursday "after battling health issues for some time," Arnone told KHNL-KGMB. Nabors' husband, Stan Cadwallader, was by his side, the station reports.

Nabors' career started in the early 1960s with various television work. His breakout role was on "The Andy Griffith Show," where he played dim-witted mechanic Gomer Pyle for two seasons.

His popular character was the center of a spinoff series, "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.," which ran for five seasons.

He also appeared in films such as "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas", "Cannonball Run 2" and "Stroker Ace."

As a singer, Nabors released 28 albums, according to his official website.

Nabors was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1991.

From 1972 to 2014, Nabors sang "Back Home Again in Indiana" with the Purdue All-American Marching Band before each Indianapolis 500 race. In March 2014, Nabors announced that the 2014 Indianapolis 500 would be his final appearance, because health issues were limiting his ability to travel. After his retirement from this role, the singer of "Back Home Again in Indiana" is now done on a rotating basis (as it had been before Nabors became the regular performer).

 

Filmography

Film Year             Title       Role       Notes

1963      Take Her, She's Mine      Clancy, Sleeping Pill Coffee Shop Manager            Uncredited

1982      The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas        Deputy Fred      

1983      Stroker Ace         Lugs Harvey        Won: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor

1984      Cannonball Run II             Pvt. Homer Lyle               

Television Year Title       Role       Notes

1961      The Steve Allen Show     Himself                

1963      I'm Dickens, He's Fenster                              Episode: "The Carpenters Four"

1963      Mr. Smith Goes to Washington   Claude 2 episodes

1963      The Danny Kaye Show    Himself                 2 episodes

1962–1964          The Andy Griffith Show                  Gomer Pyle         23 episodes

1964–1969          Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.     150 episodes

1966      The Lucy Show Episode: "Lucy Gets Caught Up in the Draft"

1967      The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour[    Himself                 Episode #1.1

1968      The Dean Martin Show   Himself                 Episode: "1968 Christmas Show"

1969      The Don Rickles Show     Himself                 Episode #1.16

1969      The Leslie Uggams Show               Himself                 Episode #1.5

1969–1971          The Jim Nabors Hour      Host/Various character 51 episodes

1967–1977          The Carol Burnett Show                 Himself                 9 episodes (the premiere episode of each season[82])

1971      The Johnny Cash Show   Himself                 Episode #2.19

1972–1973          The Flip Wilson Show     Himself                 2 episodes

1973      The Rookies        Corley Curlew    Episode: "Down Home Boy"

1973–1974          The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour                Himself/Various characters          4 episodes

1976      The Lost Saucer                 Fum       16 episodes

1976      The Muppet Show           Himself/Billy Lee Boomer/Bakery Guard                Episode #1.6

1976–1977          The Sonny & Cher Show                Himself/Various characters          6 episodes

1977–1981          The Love Boat    Wayne Bouton, the valet              3 episodes

1978      The Jim Nabors Show     Host       Nominated for a Daytime Emmy (for Outstanding Host or Hostess in a Talk, Service or Variety Series)

1981      Aloha Paradise                  Episode: "Alex and Annie/Blue Honeymoon/Another Thing"

1983      Knight Rider       Passerby              Episode: "Soul Survivor"

1986      Return to Mayberry        Gomer Pyle         Television movie

1986      Sylvan in Paradise            Sylvan Sprayberry            Television movie

1991      Hi Honey, I'm Home!      Gomer Pyle         Episode: "Hi Mom, I'm Not Home"

1991      The Carol Burnett Show                 Skit characters   Unknown episodes

 

Clifford David obit

 Actor Clifford David has died

He was not on the list.

He was an actor, singer, and coach. His career began in the 1950s, with early live television appearances leading to roles in Broadway musicals. He also played character roles in television series, feature films, and theatre. He is most recognized for his singing performances on several original Broadway cast albums.

David was born in Toledo, Ohio, the youngest son of Farris and Lily (née Abdow). His uncle was Metropolitan archdiocese Samuel David of Toledo, the archbishop of a diocese of Syrian Orthodox parishes. Samuel David's chanting of the Byzantine mass was world-renowned, and Clifford, inspired by his uncle's voice, went to New York City to pursue music and theater.

A protégé of Lee Strasberg, David made his Broadway debut as Scipio in Albert Camus' Caligula directed by Sidney Lumet. He also played Pasquale in The Aspern Papers, directed by Margaret Webster, Antipholus in the 1963 Off-Broadway revival The Boys from Syracuse, Laertes in Joseph Papp's Hamlet, and Lord Byron in the Lincoln Center production of Tennessee Williams' Camino Real with Al Pacino.

A member of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, Clifford's filmography includes Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964), Resurrection, and M. Night Shyamalan's Signs (2002). As an accomplished pianist, he was cast as Beethoven in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989).

A member of the Actors Studio from 1962, David worked with many of the greats of American theater, film, and television. He told stories of drinking with Richard Burton and shopping with Marilyn Monroe. He was working with Monroe on a play entitled The Cat, adapted from a Colette novel by Arthur Miller, when she died.

David was featured in the principal casts and on the original studio albums of such Broadway musicals as Wildcat with Lucille Ball, 1776, with William Daniels, Alan Jay Lerner's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Other feature film credits include The Last Mile (1959), The Party's Over (1965) with Oliver Reed, Riot (1969), The Betsy (1978), with Laurence Olivier, Fort Apache, The Bronx with Paul Newman (1981), and The Exorcist III (1990).

He was seen on television in the miniseries Blind Ambition, as well as in political dramas Fear on Trial and Missiles of October with Martin Sheen. He appeared in episodes of Bonanza, The Big Valley, Charlie's Angels, Mary Tyler Moore, Murphy Brown, Party of Five, Murder, She Wrote, Will & Grace, and Law & Order.

Filmography

Year       Title       Role       Notes

1957      Street of Sinners               Tom      

1959      The Last Mile     Richard Walters               

1964      Invitation to a Gunfighter             Crane Adams     

1965      Hamlet Laertes

1965      The Party's Over               Carson

1969      Riot        Mary Sheldon   

1978      The Betsy            Joe / Manager-Loren II's gay lover            

1980      Resurrection      George

1981      Fort Apache, The Bronx Dacey   

1986      Agent on Ice       Kirkpatrick          

1989      Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure                Beethoven         

1990      The Exorcist III   Dr. Bruno            

1991      Pyrates Advisor                

2002      Signs      Columbia University Professor  

2004      Kinsey   Professor Smithson