![]() ![]() ![]() Speaking of Barney, Jim Nabors’ Gomer Pyle was an incredible comedy partner in scenes with Don Knotts who played Mayberry’s Deputy Barney Fife. Jim Nabors appeared in memorable moments in The Andy Griffith Show in episodes like “ The Great Filling Station Robbery” and “ Barney’s First Car“. Gomer Pyle was first introduced to TV viewers on “ The Andy Griffith Show” as the young filling station attendant and mechanic who had a penchant for trouble while trying to do his best in the small fictional North Carolina town of Mayberry. Jim Nabors was able to transcend all the country stereotypes of 1960s television to create the enduring embodiment of a gullible, but sweet and shy southern small town resident with a giant heart of gold that would live on in reruns and in TV fandom for decades to come. The character Gomer Pyle was buffoonish, clownish, silly and above all else absolutely lovable. First on “ The Andy Griffith Show” and on the spin-off, “ Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.” Jim Nabors’ unassuming, but hilariously funny character brought the words and catchphrases, “Shazam”, “Garsh”, “Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!” and extended, multiple syllable form of “Golly” to life on TV every week. That’s because the character Jim Nabors created was a major success on two different smash hit television shows. He was best known to the world as his iconic comedy character Gomer Pyle. He was promoted to full corporal in 2007.Jim Nabors who earned as many fans with his comedy as he did with his serious music career has died at age 87 as reported by the Hollywood Reporter. ![]() While Gomer Pyle never rose above the rank of private on television, the Marine Corps made Nabors an honorary Marine with the rank of lance corporal in 2001. He said he contracted the virus several years before in India but it had remained dormant. In February 1994 Nabors suffered from hepatitis B and underwent a liver transplant. "And at my age, it's probably the best thing to do." "It's pretty obvious that we had no rights as a couple, yet when you've been together 38 years, I think something's got to happen there, you've got to solidify something," Nabors said of his marriage. Nabors, who moved to Hawaii in the 1980s, told Hawaii News Now that his television colleagues knew he was gay in the 1960s and '70s but that he never sought to publicize it because he preferred privacy. Nabors made headlines in January 2013 when he married Cadwallader, a former Honolulu firefighter and his partner of 38 years at that time, in Seattle shortly after the state of Washington made same-sex marriage legal. He recorded dozens of albums of country, inspirational and religious music with five of them selling more than 500,000 copies. When he wasn't acting, Nabors was singing in a glorious baritone that made listeners forget all about Gomer Pyle's hayseed twang. His career was helped along by friend Burt Reynolds, who put him in three of his 1980s movies - The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Stroker Ace and Cannonball Run II. Nabors was so strongly identified as Gomer that it limited the roles he was offered. His subsequent variety show, The Jim Nabors Hour, had a two-year run and he made frequent guest appearances on other television shows. It proved to be a viewers' favorite, sometimes reaching No. Gomer was the town's rustic, kind-hearted gas station attendant who was given to exclamations of "golly" and "shazam" when he was impressed, as well as "surprise, surprise, surprise" and "shame, shame, shame" - depending on the circumstances and stretching each word to several syllables.Īfter two years on the Griffith show, Nabors was given his own sitcom, Gomer Pyle, USMC, with Gomer enlisting in the US Marine Corps. Griffith's sitcom - tales of down-home people in a slow-moving Southern town - was one of the most popular on US television at the time and Nabors' Gomer Pyle character was a hit after joining the cast in 1962. ![]() Nabors' show business break came in the early 1960s when Andy Griffith saw him in a Los Angeles cabaret - singing in a sophisticated, ear-grabbing voice and telling stories between songs in a Deep South drawl - and offered him a part on The Andy Griffith Show. #BREAKINGJim Nabors, star of 'Gomer Pyle' and`The Andy Griffith Show,'dies at age 87.□□ #Golly #Shazam #RIP #SurpriseSurpriseSurprise /0CzXJwPaA9- Tom Hall ☘ November 30, 2017 ![]()
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