A bronze statue of the legendary actor and comedian, best known as the bumbling deputy Barney Fife on the Andy Griffith Show, was unveiled over the weekend. Knotts’ daughter, Karen, was on hand ...

West Virginia will remove a statue of actor and comedian Don Knotts that is located in his hometown of Morgantown, WV. It was his role as Barney Fife, however, that caused many protestors to ...

That's why after actor Don Knotts died earlier this year, he got to thinking: Mount Airy has a bronze statue of Andy and Opie. So why not Knotts' character, Barney? To Hellebrand, "Barney was the ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — An unfinished statue of Barney Fife apparently won’t be heading to Don Knotts’ hometown after all. Knotts’ widow endorses a statue but says it should be of her husband ...

An effort to honor Don Knotts has ended with the destruction of an unfinished clay sculpture of the actor’s most famous character, Deputy Barney Fife. “I’m just tired and emotionally drained ...

Tom Hellebrand and Neal Shelton were trying to raise $35,000 to put a statue in Mount Airy — model for the town of Mayberry — as a tribute to Knotts, who portrayed the bumbling Barney Fife on ...