Actor and clown George Lindsey, finest acknowledged on behalf of singing the character Goober Pyle on television, died Sunday in Nashville. He had been poorly since agony a stroke in demonstration.
He introduced the character of Goober — the classic grinning hayseed, equal parts aggravating and endearing — on “The Andy Griffith Show,” the long-running circumstances comedy agreed in the fictional North Carolina town of Mayberry. When Jim Nabors’s character, the similarly genial but naïve Gomer Pyle, was set his own progression in 1964, Mr. Lindsey attached the Griffith demonstrate as Goober Pyle, Gomer’s cousin.
The character Goober made guest appearances on Gomer Pyle, USMC, was plus part of the small screen progression Mayberry RFD, and was a regular on the variety demonstrate Hee Haw on behalf of twenty years. Lindsey was 83.
