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          Andy Griffith

          (1926-2012)

          Who Was Andy Griffith?

          Andy Griffith hit stardom in the late 1950s acting in film, TV and Broadway productions while also creating albums of comedic monologues.

          He rose to immense popularity as the character Andy Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show, which ran from 1960-'68.

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          5. He later returned to TV in the lawyer drama Matlock and recorded several gospel albums. He died in Manteo, Roanoke Island, North Carolina, on July 3, 2012.

          Early Career

          Born on June 1, 1926, in Mount Airy, North Carolina, Griffith's first career ambition was to be an opera singer.

          Later, he decided he wanted to become a Moravian preacher, and enrolled as a pre-divinity student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1944. While in college, he became involved in drama and musical theater and graduated in 1949 with a degree in music.

          Griffith taught high school music for three years before setting out, with his new wife, Barbara Edwards, a fellow actor at UNC, on a