Jim Nabors, whose wide-eyed character Gomer Pyle was so popular on The Andy Griffith Show that he got his own spinoff and whose surprisingly sonorous baritone singing voice made him a successful ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Nabors ... to be dearly missed,” Cadwallader said. Nabors became an instant success when he joined “The Andy Griffith Show” in the early 1960s. The character of ...