Celebrity Death Thread

[LionsFanInJapan]

RIP Andy Griffith :(

[Dan V]

Greatest show in television history IMO. Mayberrry gang waiting on opie and Gomer in heaven

. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF-eYA5XifI&feature=related"]Barney on Dogs and Giraffes from The Andy Griffith Show - YouTube[/ame]

[Islair]

RIP Andy.

[Chuck Cunningham]

Mayberrry gang waiting on opie and Gomer in heaven

Here's hoping they are waiting a long while!!

[The Cat]

I have travelled through Mount Airy and driven past the famous Pilot Mountain or Mt Pilot as Barney used to say. I would have thought that at the city limits sign or somewhere in the core of the city there would have been recognition of Andy. There may be something, but I surely haven't seen it.

I always thought there should be a billboard, "Welcome to Mt Airy, AKA Mayberry, the home of Andy Griffith.

[Rocky Bleier]

My favorite show as a kid. What television ought to be. Andy Griffith seemed like a real decent human being.

[DanO]

"seemed like"?????

[Tony G]

you've never seen A Face In The Crowd?

[CGVT]

Just saw it again a couple of weeks ago. Great movie.

[Rocky Bleier]

"seemed like"?????

Seeing as how I never met the man, I can only go by what I saw of him on television. That should be obvious.

[DanO]

"Seeing as how I never met the man, I can only go by what I saw of him on television. That should be obvious."
-----------------------I thought you were talking about the character he player in the show. That's pretty obvious.

[Rocky Bleier]

The character and the man were both named Andy, so I guess there might be room for confusion, but Andy the sheriff's last name was Taylor. I said Andy Griffith seemed like a decent human being. Andy and Opie reminded mean of my dad and me. I still get teary-eyed watching them interact at times where Opie is learning some hard lesson.

[DanO]

Ya, but the name of the show was the Andy Griffith show. My mistake. Sorry.

[Rocky Bleier]

No apology necessary. :-)

[Tony G]

Oscar winner Ernest Borgnine dead at 95

By Christopher Weber, Associated Press

Updated 8m ago

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LOS ANGELES – Ernest Borgnine, the beefy screen star known for blustery, often villainous roles, but who won the best-actor Oscar for playing against type as a lovesick butcher in Marty in 1955, died Sunday. He was 95.

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  Actor Ernest Borgnine died at the age of 95 with his family by his side.

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Mark J Terrill, AP
Actor Ernest Borgnine died at the age of 95 with his family by his side.





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His longtime spokesman, Harry Flynn, told The Associated Press that Borgnine died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with his family by his side.
Television fans loved Borgnine as the scheming Navy officer in the sitcom McHale's Navy. Borgnine was also known as the heavy who beats up Frank Sinatra in "From Here to Eternity" and one of the thugs who menaces Spencer Tracy in Bad Day at Block Rock