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Jim Nabors. Actor: Gomer Pyle: USMC. Tall, spade-jawed, hopelessly genial balladeer/actor Jim Nabors was born in James Thurston Nabors on June 12, 1930 in Sylacauga, Alabama and raised there, graduating from the University of Alabama.
Tall, spade-jawed, hopelessly genial balladeer/actor Jim Nabors was born in James Thurston Nabors on June 12, 1930 in Sylacauga, Alabama and raised there, graduating from the University of Alabama. A typing clerk at the United Nations in his salad days, he eventually moved to Los Angeles, California on account of his asthmatic condition and ...
Nov 30, 2017 · Jim Nabors, a comic actor who found fame in the role of the amiable bumpkin Gomer Pyle in two hit television shows of the 1960s while pursuing a second career as a popular singer with a booming...
Nov 30, 2017 · (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times) By Dennis McLellan. Nov. 30, 2017 11:25 AM PT. Jim Nabors, the singer and actor who became a TV icon in the 1960s playing the lovably naïve Gomer Pyle on “The...
Nov 30, 2017 · The Associated Press. HONOLULU — Jim Nabors, the Alabama-born comic actor who starred as TV’s dim but good-hearted Southern rube Gomer Pyle and constantly surprised audiences with his...
Nov 30, 2017 · NEW YORK (AP) — Jim Nabors made good on his last name when he brought Gomer Pyle to “The Andy Griffith Show.”. His big-hearted, ever-cheery gas-pump jockey was a neighborly fit in the easygoing town of Mayberry. But when Gomer enlisted in the Marines for five TV seasons, he truly blossomed.
Nov 30, 2017 · Jim Nabors, the actor known for his role as the beloved “Gomer Pyle” on television comedies and for his booming operatic voice, has died. He was 87.