Jim Nabors

Acting

🎂 1930-06-12 (87 years old at death)

✝️ 2017-11-30

📍 Sylacauga, Alabama, USA

👤 Male

🎬 12 Movies

James Thurston "Jim" Nabors (June 12, 1930 – November 30, 2017) was an American actor and singer. Born and raised in Sylacauga, Alabama, Nabors moved to Southern California due to his asthma. While working at a Santa Monica nightclub, The Horn, he was discovered by Andy Griffith and later joined The Andy Griffith Show, playing Gomer Pyle, a gas station attendant who some described as dim-witted. Nabors himself has stated that the Gomer character was not so much dim-witted; he just wanted to se ...