Don Knotts’ performance as Barney Fife in The Andy Griffith Show is one of TV’s most iconic performances. However, the ...

In 1955, on the stage of Broadway’s Alvin Theater, Andy Griffith and Don Knotts first bonded ... his five-year contract was ...

By then, though, it would have been difficult for Don to walk away from his movie deal." Nonetheless, the duo did have an important conversation in Griffith's home where Knotts intimated that he ...