(Reuters) - Actor Andy Griffith, whose portrayal of a small-town sheriff made "The Andy Griffith Show" one of television's most enduring programs, died on Tuesday at his North Carolina home at age 86.

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - Actor Andy Griffith, beloved as a small-town sheriff on the popular television program "The Andy Griffith Show," died of a heart attack, according to his ...

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Actor Andy Griffith died this morning at his home in North Carolina, NBC News reports. He was 86. Griffith may have been most famous for his roles in "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Matlock," but he ...

Actor Andy Griffith died at the age of 86 Tuesday morning, July 3, 2012. Griffith is best known for television shows "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Matlock". Actor Andy Griffith died at the age of 86 ...

Otis the Drunk (Hal Smith), Deputy Barney Fife (Don Knotts), Gomer Pyle (Jim Nabors) and Floyd the Barber (Howard McNear) are only a few of the pretty eccentric characters Sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy ...

Andy Griffith with his first wife Barbara Edwards in the 1960s. Best known as a TV dad, actor Andy Griffith also had two children of his own: son Andy “Sam” Griffith Jr. and daughter Dixie Griffith.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Andy Griffith, who made homespun Southern wisdom his trademark as the wise sheriff in "The Andy Griffith Show" and the rumpled defense lawyer in "Matlock," died Tuesday. He was ...

This Oct. 28, 2003 file photo shows actor Andy Griffith sitting in front of a bronze statue of Andy and Opie from the "Andy Griffith Show," after the unveiling ceremony in Raleigh, N.C. Griffith, ...

Griffith s career spanned more than a half-century on stage, film and television, but he would always be best known as Sheriff Andy Taylor in the television show set in a North Carolina town not too ...

Best known as a TV dad, actor Andy Griffith also had two children of his own: son Andy “Sam” Griffith Jr. and daughter Dixie Griffith. “For the millions of his fans and people who loved him, he ...

In this Nov. 9, 2005, file photograph, President George W. Bush presents actor Andy Griffith with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony at the White House. Griffith, whose portrayal of a ...