Turtle in the 1997 animated feature “Cats Don’t Dance.”Īs he grew older, Knotts became a lodestar for younger comic actors. He also did guest spots in 2005 on NBC’s “Las Vegas” and Fox’s “That ‘70s Show.” He occasionally co-headlined in live comedy shows with Tim Conway, his sometime co-star in Disney films such as “The Apple Dumpling Gang.” Knotts also appeared as the TV repairman in director Gary Ross’s whimsical 1998 comedy “Pleasantville,” and voiced the part of T.W. He lent his distinctive, high-pitched voice as Turkey Mayor in Walt Disney’s animated family film “Chicken Little,” which was released in November 2005. Knotts, who lived in West Los Angeles, died Friday night of lung cancer at UCLA Medical Center, according to Sherwin Bash, his longtime manager.įamily members said that his longtime friend Griffth was one of his last visitors at Cedars on Friday night.ĭespite health problems, Knotts had kept working in recent months. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.Don Knotts, the saucer-eyed, scarecrow-thin comic actor best known for his roles as the high-strung small-town deputy Barney Fife on the 1960s CBS series “The Andy Griffith Show” and the leisure-suit-clad landlord Ralph Furley on ABC’s ‘70s sitcom “Three’s Company,” has died.

His second book, Take Now Thy Son, was published posthumously. Bill, and then finished it in Georgia on his father's farm. He continued working on it until after he got out of the Air Force and while attending Columbia University under the G.I. It was then that he began writing No Time for Sergeants.

He was broke when his first child was born so he re-enlisted in the Air Force and ended up in Houston Texas. Augustine Florida where both he and his wife tried teaching school. Next he was living in New York City, working for a time as a shipping clerk in a book store, and then in St.

He got married to his childhood sweetheart. After World War II he returned to Duke and began to write. His flight crew was over Hiroshima the morning after the first atomic bomb was dropped and they took the pictures that appeared in newspapers all over the world. Before the war was over he had flown 23 combat missions over Japan. He went overseas with one of the first B-29 outfits as a lieutenant in photo-navigation, first to Saipan and then Guam. He was drafted in 1943, passed the Air Corps examination and finally ended as a navigator. He attended North Carolina College, a military school, and then Duke University and Auburn. He spent most of his life there until he went away to school. The author, MAC HYMAN was born in Cordele, Georgia on August 25, 1923.

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