OBITUARY

George Lindsey dies; ‘The Andy Griffith Show’s’ Goober Pyle

The character actor played Mayberry’s genial auto mechanic, the cousin of naive gas station attendant Gomer Pyle. He also was a regular on ‘Hee Haw.’

By Dennis McLellan

Los Angeles Times

May 7, 2012

George Lindsey, the Southern-born character actor who played dim hayseed Goober Pyle, the genial gas station auto mechanic on “The Andy Griffith Show” and “Mayberry R.F.D.,” died early Sunday morning. He was 83.

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