George Lindsey was born in Fairfield, Alabama, to George Ross Lindsey and Alice Smith.
21 Facts About George Lindsey
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George Lindsey was raised by his grandparents in the small town of Jasper, where he graduated from Walker County High School in 1946.
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George Lindsey attended Kemper Military School in Boonville, Missouri, and Florence State Teacher's College, where he majored in physical education and biology.
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George Lindsey was a quarterback on the football team, and acted in college plays.
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George Lindsey got parts in TV series including Gunsmoke, The Rifleman, The Real McCoys, The Twilight Zone, Daniel Boone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and three episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, before he got the role he would become famous for as "Goober" on The Andy Griffith Show.
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In 1964, Lindsey was cast as the slow-witted but kindly Goober Beasley on The Andy Griffith Show.
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George Lindsey's character was later renamed Goober Pyle to tie him to his cousin Gomer Pyle, a slow-witted country boy played by Jim Nabors, from Alabama.
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George Lindsey played a sailor in the 1964 film Ensign Pulver, the sequel to Mister Roberts.
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George Lindsey had a role in a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode entitled "Submarine Sunk Here".
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George Lindsey appeared in six episodes of the television series Gunsmoke.
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George Lindsey played a blackmailing taxicab driver in the "Bed of Roses" episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
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In 1972, George Lindsey portrayed Charlie, one of a pair of highwaymen in the Gunsmoke episode "Blind Man's Bluff," and an escaped convict, "The Dove," in an episode of The Rifleman.
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Three Disney animated features that presented the voice of George Lindsey were The Aristocats, Robin Hood and The Rescuers.
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George Lindsey appeared in the 1967 Gunsmoke episode "Mad Dog" as one of the Watson Brothers.
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In 1997 George Lindsey played himself in an episode of NewsRadio.
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George Lindsey portrayed Goober for the third and last time on the syndicated country music variety show Hee Haw, playing a more rustic and somewhat smarter version of the character.
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George Lindsey appeared on that show from 1972 to 1992.
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George Lindsey died on May 6,2012, in Nashville, Tennessee, from heart failure.
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George Lindsey is buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in his hometown of Jasper, Alabama.
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George Lindsey established and perpetuated the George Lindsey Academic Scholarships at University of North Alabama.
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George Lindsey was the 1997 recipient of the Minnie Pearl Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2007 recipient of the first ICON Award presented by the Nashville Associations of Talent Directors.