Don Knotts
Highest Rated: 86% Pleasantville (1998)
Lowest Rated: Not Available
Birthday: Jul 21, 1924
Birthplace: Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
In a typical Hollywood paradox, Don Knotts proved quite adept at securing steady work playing the frantically nervous and incompetent. After great success in the 1960s as a TV second banana, Knotts spent much of the second half of that decade as a feature comedy star. Nevertheless, the small screen proved the more hospitable home. His Deputy Barney Fife, a bumbling but benign braggart, provided many of the laughs on the hugely successful rustic sitcom "The Andy Griffith Show" (CBS, 1960-68). Knotts' high-pitched whine provided comic counterpart to the soothing cracker-barrel homilies delivered by Griffith's Sheriff Andy Taylor for five seasons. Revealingly, Andy never let his deputy carry more than one bullet--and in his shirt pocket at that! Nonetheless, Knotts racked up an impressive winning streak of Emmys for "Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Comedy," taking home the statuette for 1960/61, 1961/62, 1962/63, 1965/66 and 1966/67. Griffth would also credit his co-star for writing many of Barney Fife's most inspired comic scenes.
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Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | 64% | Air Buddies | Unknown (Voice) | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hermie & Friends: A Fruitcake Christmas | Wormie (Voice) | - | 2005 |
37% | 47% | Chicken Little | Mayor Turkey Lurkey (Voice) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | 69% | Tom Sawyer | Mutt Potter (Voice) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | 50% | Quints | Gov. Healy (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jingle Bells | Unknown (Character) | - | 1999 |
86% | 79% | Pleasantville | TV Repairman (Character) | $40.6M | 1998 |
0% | 21% | Big Bully | Principal Kokelar (Character) | $1.8M | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Matlock: The Assassination | Unknown (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Matlock: The Picture | Les Calhoun (Character) | - | 1992 |
43% | 61% | Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night | Gee Willikers (Voice) | $2.7M | 1987 |
No Score Yet | 63% | The Little Troll Prince | Professor Nidaros (Voice) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | 70% | Return to Mayberry | Barney Fife (Character) | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet | 83% | The Private Eyes | Inspector Winship (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | 73% | The Prize Fighter | Shake (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | 54% | The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again | Theodore Ogelvie (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | 65% | Hot Lead and Cold Feet | Denver Kid (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mule Feathers |
Narrator/ |
- | 1978 |
60% | 57% | Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo | Wheely Applegate (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | 57% | Gus | Coach Venner (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | 66% | No Deposit, No Return | Bert (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Captain & Tennille - Christmas Show | Unknown (Character) | - | 1976 |
56% | 60% | The Apple Dumpling Gang | Theodore Ogelvie (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Love a Mystery | Alexander Archer (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man Who Came to Dinner | Dr Bradley (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | 72% | How to Frame a Figg | Hollis Alexander Figg (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | 58% | The Love God? | Abner Audubon Peacock IV (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | 70% | The Shakiest Gun in the West | Dr. Jessie Heywood (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | 56% | The Reluctant Astronaut | Roy Fleming (Character) | - | 1967 |
67% | 75% | The Ghost and Mr. Chicken | Luther Heggs (Character) | - | 1966 |
40% | 60% | The Incredible Mr. Limpet | Henry Limpet (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | 77% | Move Over, Darling | Shoe clerk (Character) | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Time I Saw Archie | Capt. Harry Little (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet | 40% | Wake Me When It's Over | Sgt. Percy Warren (Character) | - | 1960 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 91% | Robot Chicken | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fatherhood | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Las Vegas | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
No Score Yet | 60% | Johnny Bravo | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 2004 |
43% | No Score Yet | Burke's Law | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Matlock | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1988-1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Newhart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1990 |
No Score Yet | 94% | Three's Company | Ralph Furley (Character) | 1979-1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Walt Disney's Disneyland | Bert Delaney (Character) | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fantasy Island | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978-1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sonny and Cher Show | Guest | 1976-1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Girl With Something Extra | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Here's Lucy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | 80% | The New Scooby-Doo Movies | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | 100% | The Andy Griffith Show |
Barney Fife (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
1960-1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Unknown (Character) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Danny Kaye Show | Guest | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Joey Bishop Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I've Got a Secret | Guest | 1958 |