Andy Griffith (1926-2012)

Receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2005

Here is Griffith in A Face In The Crowd, an often overlooked film that contains what many critics consider his finest performance. The film itself is a message for our time.

He'll be remembered as Sheriff Andy Taylor in The Andy Griffith Show (1960-68):

With Don Knotts as Barney Fife, Ron Howard as Opie, and Frances Bavier as Aunt Bee.