Don Knotts
Don Knotts (born Jesse Donald Knotts; July 21, 1924 – February 24, 2006) was an American comedic actor best known for his portrayal of Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show and Ralph Furley on Three's Company.
Knotts was married three times. His marriage to Kathryn Metz lasted from 1947 until their divorce in 1964, and he raised his daughter as a single parent. He married Loralee Czuchna in 1974 and they divorced in 1983. His third marriage was to Frances Yarborough, from 2002 until his death in 2006. From his first marriage, Knotts had a son, Thomas Knotts, and a daughter, actress Karen Knotts (born April 2, 1954).
Knotts died at age 81, at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from pulmonary and respiratory complications of pneumonia related to lung cancer.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.8345 |
| Birthday | 1924-07-21 |
| Place of Birth | Morgantown, West Virgina, USA |
| Also Known As | دان ناتز, Jesse Donald Knotts, |
1998
Pleasantville
7.268/1990
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and...
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Pleasantville
1968
The Shakiest Gun in the West
6.2/51
Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cu...
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The Shakiest Gun in the West
1963
Move Over, Darling
6.7/105
Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that...
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Move Over, Darling
1976
Gus
5.9/47
The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard fie...
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Gus
1976
No Deposit, No Return
6.3/94
Two rich children devise a way to escape their grandfather and visit their mother. Unfortunately for two hapless safe crackers, they become part of th...
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No Deposit, No Return
1979
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
6.4/80
Amos and Theodore, the two bumbling outlaw wannabes from The Apple Dumpling Gang, are back and trying to make it on their own. This time, the crazy du...
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The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
1979
The Prize Fighter
5.3/6
"Bags" the boxer (Tim Conway) and his manager, Shake (Don Knotts), are quite a pair: One is a dim bulb, and the other has a mean streak. Times are tou...
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The Prize Fighter
2003
Hermie: A Common Caterpillar
5/3
So what's so bad about being a common caterpillar? Just ask Hermie-or his friend, Wormie-and they'll tell you. No splashy stripes. No stand-out spots....
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Hermie: A Common Caterpillar
1984
Cannonball Run II
5.4/365
When a wealthy sheikh puts up $1 million in prize money for a cross-country car race, there is one person crazy enough to hit the road hard with wheel...
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Cannonball Run II
2006
Air Buddies
5.9/361
The offspring of sportsman canine Air Bud: B-Dawg, Mudbud, Budderball, Buddha, and Rosebud, uncover a kidnapping plot motivated by a little rich boy's...
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Air Buddies
2005
Chicken Little
5.923/4304
When the sky really is falling and sanity has flown the coop, who will rise to save the day? Together with his hysterical band of misfit friends, Chic...
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Chicken Little
1966
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
6.7/107
Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 y...
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The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
2005
Hermie & Friends: A Fruitcake Christmas
8.2/2
It's Christmastime in the garden and Hermie and his friends are hustling and bustling to prepare for the big day. But more than anything they all eage...
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Hermie & Friends: A Fruitcake Christmas
1980
The Private Eyes
6.1/51
The lord and lady of a capacious manor are killed, and the lord's ghost seems to have returned to knock off the staff one by one, causing Inspector Wi...
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The Private Eyes
1978
Hot Lead & Cold Feet
5.9/36
Twin brothers -- one rough and tough, the other a city-bred milquetoast -- compete for their father's fortune.
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Hot Lead & Cold Feet
1969
The Love God?
6/22
Ornithologist Abner Peacock sells off his modest-selling birdwatching periodical to a charlatan who turns it into a girlie mag, making it a massive fi...
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The Love God?
1977
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
5.9/366
Herbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. But thieves have hidden a cache of stolen diamonds in Herbie...
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Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
1967
The Reluctant Astronaut
6/49
Roy Fleming is a small-town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space prog...
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The Reluctant Astronaut
1971
How to Frame a Figg
6.6/19
Don Knotts is Hollis Figg, the dumbest bookkeeper in town. When the city fathers buy a second-hand computer to cover up their financial shenanigans, t...
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How to Frame a Figg
2005
Hermie & Friends: Buzby, the Misbehaving Bee
0/0
In this animated adventure, Buzby the misbehaving bee is kicked out of the hive for his troublemaking and now he has made the garden his new home. His...
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Hermie & Friends: Buzby, the Misbehaving Bee
2000
Tom Sawyer
6.2/42
Tom Sawyer and his best buddy Huck Finn love going fishing, daydreaming about pirates and stolen gold, and thinking about Becky Thatcher - the pretty...
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Tom Sawyer
1975
The Apple Dumpling Gang
6.6/139
A roving bachelor gets saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters stumble upon a huge gold nugget. They join forces with...
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The Apple Dumpling Gang
1964
The Incredible Mr. Limpet
6.2/99
Milquetoast Henry Limpet experiences his fondest wish and is transformed into a fish. As a talking fish he assists the US Navy in hunting German subma...
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The Incredible Mr. Limpet
1958
No Time for Sergeants
7.3/59
Georgia farm boy Will Stockdale is about to bust with pride. He’s been drafted. Will’s ready. But is Uncle Sam ready for Will?
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No Time for Sergeants
2004
Hermie & Friends: Flo the Lyin' Fly
7.5/3
Stingo, Lingo, Bingo and Zingo are from Riverpool and they are on their way to perform. Flo is not happy. Her friends encourage her and try to teach h...
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Hermie & Friends: Flo the Lyin' Fly
2005
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
7.7/6
A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.
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The Adventures of Errol Flynn
1960
Wake Me When It's Over
6.7/6
The war may be over, but that doesn't keep the hapless Gus Brubaker from being drafted and posted on a forgotten little Japanese Island...and that's j...
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Wake Me When It's Over
2004
Hermie & Friends: Webster the Scaredy Spider
7/2
A frightened little spider named Webster ventures into the garden. He's a walking encyclopedia of fears and phobias, shocked when the other denizens o...
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Hermie & Friends: Webster the Scaredy Spider
2006
Hermie & Friends: Hermie and Wormie's Nutty Adventure
5.5/3
The garden literally goes "nuts" when a shortage of nuts causes panic, especially with the Garden Talent Show & Tell starting tomorrow. And wouldn't y...
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Hermie & Friends: Hermie and Wormie's Nutty Adventure
2000
Quints
5.6/67
A teenager goes to desperate lengths to get attention when her mother gives birth to quints.
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Quints
1982
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
6/1
A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions spanning from the 1930s through the 1980s.
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Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
2011
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
0/0
The beloved, Emmy-winning comic actor Don Knotts, best-known for his roles as the bumbling deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show and the lecher...
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Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
1961
The Last Time I Saw Archie
6/5
Two Air Force friends have fun during their enlistment.
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The Last Time I Saw Archie
1996
Big Bully
4.7/86
A writer returns to his hometown where he faces the childhood nemesis whose life he ultimately ruined, only the bully wants to relive their painful pa...
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Big Bully
1999
Jingle Bells
6.5/11
A family with very little money worries about not being able to buy presents for each other, until they receive a little inspiration from a Christmas...
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Jingle Bells
1963
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
6.968/729
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is t...
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
2006
Hermie & Friends: Stanley the Stinkbug Goes to Camp
0/0
There's someone new coming to the garden's Summer Camp this year, and, well he has a problem. He stinks. But that's what stinkbug do. So, when Stanley...
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Hermie & Friends: Stanley the Stinkbug Goes to Camp
1968
Rowan & Martin at the Movies
4.5/2
This public service short for U.S. Savings Bonds starts out with Rowan and Martin arriving at a TV studio, ostensibly to host a show. It turns out tha...
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Rowan & Martin at the Movies
2007
Hermie & Friends: Buzby and the Grumble Bees
0/0
The garden bugs secretly agree to help Buzby show his misbehaving niece and nephew how unpleasant life would be if everyone misbehaved the way they do...
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Hermie & Friends: Buzby and the Grumble Bees
1987
The Little Troll Prince
7.1/25
A little troll prince escapes his kingdom, perched atop a tall mountain in Norway, for the human world, where a family teaches him the true meaning of...
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The Little Troll Prince
1986
Return to Mayberry
6.2/71
After being away for awhile, Andy Taylor returns home to Mayberry to visit Opie, now an expectant father. While there he ends up helping Barney Fife m...
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Return to Mayberry
1976
Joys
6/2
Over fifty of the greatest living comedians are called to a party at Bob Hope's house, where each of them is systematically killed (and their bodies t...
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Joys
1973
I Love a Mystery
6.2/4
Three insurance investigators search for a mysterious billionaire. Based on the Old Time Radio show of the same name.
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I Love a Mystery
2007
Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
9/1
The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adventures, loves and excess was largely played out in...
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Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
1997
Cats Don't Dance
7.2/211
An ambitious singing and dancing cat in 1939 Hollywood overcomes several obstacles to fulfill his dream of becoming a movie star.
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Cats Don't Dance
1977
Mule Feathers
4.5/2
A drifter con artist, impersonating a parson, arrives in a small Wild West town with his mule and becomes embroiled in the lives of several townsfolk.
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Mule Feathers
2002
The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo
10/42
Cartoon Network holds an awards show awarding cartoon excellence.
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The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo
1987
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
5.6/27
Pinocchio and his friends, a glow worm and a marionette, search for a magic music box, putting them in danger from the evil Scalawag and the Emperor o...
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Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
1991
Timmy's Gift: A Precious Moments Christmas
5.9/5
This is the story about an ordinary someone, much like you or me, who is called upon to accomplish a very important task. Little Timmy the Angel is gi...
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Timmy's Gift: A Precious Moments Christmas
1972
The Man Who Came to Dinner
7/1
Lecturer and broadcaster Sheridan Whiteside has been invited to dinner at the home of a pompous small-town bigwig. But he stays rather longer than any...
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
1979
The Muppets Go Hollywood
6.2/26
Kermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the premiere of the Muppets' first feature film, The Muppet Movi...
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The Muppets Go Hollywood
1973
Keep U.S. Beautiful
0/0
A comedy variety special with an ecological twist.
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Keep U.S. Beautiful
1976
Bob Hope's Bicentennial Star-Spangled Spectacular
0/0
Bob Hope celebrates America's bicentennial. Hope's opening monologue includes jokes about the Fourth of July and the American Revolution, the upcoming...
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