Andy griffith age at death

Andrew S. Griffith was born on June 1, 1926, in Mount Airy, North Carolina. With aspirations to become a Moravian minister, Griffith attended the University of Chapel Hill in 1944 to pursue a divinity degree. During his studies at UNC, Griffith was intrigued by drama and theater, so he switched his degree to music and he graduated in 1949.

Andy Griffith started his career as a comedian in the early 1950s. However, before his acting career, Griffith taught high school music. After teaching for three years, Griffith and his wife, Barbara Edwards, started traveling and performing throughout North Carolina. On November 14, 1953, a Chapel Hill record company released Griffith’s “What It Was, Was Football,” a discourse about the game of football as witnessed by a young country boy who didn’t understand the game. Eventually, Capitol Records obtained rights to the record and the Griffith’s comedic monologue sold a million copies.

Griffith’s first acting performance of widespread acclaim came when he acted in the play No Time for Sergeants. The pl

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