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Andy Griffith
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American actor, comedian, television producer, singer, and writer (1926–2012)
OverviewAI-generated
Andy Griffith was a United States male artist whose professional career spanned from 1955 to 2012. He was born in 1926 and died on July 3, 2012. Griffith had two children. His musical output is categorized under tags including comedy, classic, 50s, pop, and thrash metal.
As an author, Griffith is associated with eleven works, including *Barney Fife, and other characters I have known*, *Shift Secrets : 10 Proven Hospitality Business Growth Tactics*, *Working Classroom*, *The Christmas Guest*, and *Leadership Lessons : Restaurant Manager Guide*. Crossref data indicates five works. He is recognized in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection.
Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Barney Fife, and other characters I have known
- Shift Secrets : 10 Proven Hospitality Business Growth Tactics
- Working Classroom
- The Christmas Guest
- Leadership Lessons : Restaurant Manager Guide
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1926-06-01
- Active to
- 2012-07-03
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 27,530
- Total plays
- 134,071
Tags
Andy Griffith (June 1, 1926 - July 3, 2012) is best known for his starring roles in two very popular TV series, 'The Andy Griffith Show' (1960) and 'Matlock' (1986). Griffith sang as part of some of his acting roles, most notably in 'A Face in the Crowd' and on some episodes of 'The Andy Griffith Show'. Within recent years, he has recorded successful albums of classic Christian hymns and standup comedy/musicals. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Andy+Griffith">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,786x
- Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas
· 2005 · cited 16,646x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,894x
- Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy
· 2013 · cited 13,560x
- VI. The phenomena of rupture and flow in solids
· 1921 · cited 7,673x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Andy Samuel Griffith , ( 1926-06-01 ) June 1, 1926, Mount Airy, North Carolina , U.S.
- Died
- July 3, 2012 (2012-07-03) (aged 86), Manteo, North Carolina , U.S.
- Resting place
- Roanoke Island , North Carolina , U.S.
- Alma mater
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( BMus )
- Occupations
- Actor comedian producer singer writer director
- Years active
- 1946–2010
- Notable work
- The Andy Griffith Show Matlock
- Political party
- Democratic
- Spouses
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via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Andy Samuel Griffith (June 1, 1926 – July 3, 2012) was an American actor, comedian, television producer, singer, and writer whose career spanned seven decades in music and television. Known for his Southern drawl, his characters with a folksy-friendly personality, as well as his gruff but friendly voice, Griffith was a Tony Award nominee for two roles. He gained prominence in the starring role in director Elia Kazan's film A Face in the Crowd (1957) and No Time for Sergeants (1958) before he became better known for his television roles, playing the lead roles of Andy Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show (1960–1968) and Ben Matlock in the legal drama Matlock (1986–1995).
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Andy Griffith” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.