Though he wasn’t one of the original characters of The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle is just as notable as the other characters. In fact, the character was such a hit, he got his own spinoff of the ...

Gomer Pyle might have started as a humble garage mechanic from Mayberry who stumbled into the U.S. Marine Corps, but his lessons in heart and honesty stuck with audiences for decades. On Gomer Pyle, U ...

Pyle was an oafish, childlike employee at the local Mayberry gas station. Thanks to Nabors’ comedic chops, however, he quickly became one of the most popular characters in the series. When Pyle wasn’t ...

In the mid-1960s, America tuned in weekly to watch Gomer Pyle, the lovable, bumbling Marine portrayed by Jim Nabors. Gomer was naive, innocent, and ridiculously optimistic. He was lovable, even ...

Anyone who was a kid in the 1970s remembers watching the mind-bending, fever-dream shows created by Canadian brothers Sid and Marty Kroft. They also created a live-action show that featured an Alabama ...

HONOLULU (AP) – Jim Nabors, who played Gomer Pyle on TV’s “The Andy Griffith Show,” has died at 87. Nabors died peacefully at his home in Hawaii on Thursday with his husband, Stan Cadwallader, at his ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Forrest Compton, the actor who played Co. Edward Gray on “Gomer Pyle, USMC” and Mike Karr in “The Edge of ...