(CNN)Jim Nabors, a singer and actor best known for his role as Gomer Pyle on "The Andy Griffith Show," has died, according to family friend and CNN affiliate KHNL-KGMB producer Phil Arnone. He was 87.

Jim Nabors, the singer and actor who became a TV icon in the 1960s playing the lovably naive Gomer Pyle on "The Andy Griffith Show" and the spinoff series "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.," has died. He was ...

Jim Nabors’ claim to fame was his Andy Griffith Show character of Gomer Pyle. For the rest of his career, despite his other talents, he would always be known to the public as Mayberry’s child-like and ...

Jim Nabors had some very funny TV moments as Gomer Pyle. Many are recalling him saying "Sha-zaaam" and "G-a-w-leeeee," now that the actor, singer and Indianapolis 500 icon has died at the age of 87.

NEW YORK — 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 ...

Jim Nabors, who portrayed the jovial Gomer Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show before branching out with his own series, died early Thursday morning at his home in Hawaii. He was 89. Producer Phil Arnone ...

HONOLULU -- Jim Nabors, the Alabama-born comic actor who starred as TV's dim but good-hearted Southern rube Gomer Pyle and who constantly surprised audiences with his twang-free operatic singing voice ...

“How can you watch that stupid show?” I asked my father, in great pre-teen exasperation. Of course the reason that show — and not, say, “The Beverly Hillbillies” — bothered me so much was that people ...

Jim Nabors, who starred as the bumbling gas-station-attendant-turned-Marine Gomer Pyle on “The Andy Griffith Show” and his own subsequent spinoff, died Thursday morning in Hawaii. He was 87. His death ...

(Reuters) - Actor Jim Nabors, whose portrayal of the grinning country bumpkin Gomer Pyle on the 1960s television hit "The Andy Griffith Show" belied a classic baritone singing voice, died on Thursday ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Nabors, the shy Alabaman whose down-home comedy made him a TV star as Gomer Pyle and whose surprisingly operatic voice kept him a favorite in Las Vegas and other showplaces, died ...