Don Knotts

Don Knotts

1924-07-21 Morgantown, West Virgina, USA 53 Credits

Biography

Don Knotts (July 21, 1924 – February 24, 2006) was an American comedic actor best known for his portrayal of Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show and Ralph Furley on Three's Company. Knotts was married three times. His marriage to Kathryn Metz lasted from 1947 until their divorce in 1964, and he raised his daughter as a single parent.  He married Loralee Czuchna in 1974 and they divorced in 1983. His third marriage was to Frances Yarborough, from 2002 until his death in 2006. From his first ma...

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Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter

2011

as Himself

Acting

The beloved, Emmy-winning comic actor Don Knotts, best-known for his roles as the bumbling deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show and the lecher...

Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn

Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn

2007

as Self (archive footage)

9.0
Acting

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adventures, loves and excess was largely played out in ...

Hermie & Friends: Buzby and the Grumble Bees

Hermie & Friends: Buzby and the Grumble Bees

2007

as Wormie (voice)

Acting

The garden bugs secretly agree to help Buzby show his misbehaving niece and nephew how unpleasant life would be if everyone misbehaved the way they do...

Air Buddies

Air Buddies

2006

as Sniffer (voice)

5.9
Acting

The offspring of sportsman canine Air Bud: B-Dawg, Mudbud, Budderball, Buddha, and Rosebud, uncover a kidnapping plot motivated by a little rich boy's...

Hermie & Friends: Hermie and Wormie's Nutty Adventure

Hermie & Friends: Hermie and Wormie's Nutty Adventure

2006

as Wormie

5.5
Acting

The garden literally goes "nuts" when a shortage of nuts causes panic, especially with the Garden Talent Show & Tell starting tomorrow. And wouldn't y...

Hermie & Friends: Stanley the Stinkbug Goes to Camp

Hermie & Friends: Stanley the Stinkbug Goes to Camp

2006

as Wormie (voice)

Acting

There's someone new coming to the garden's Summer Camp this year, and, well he has a problem. He stinks. But that's what stinkbug do. So, when Stanley...

Chicken Little

Chicken Little

2005

as Mayor Turkey Lurkey (voice)

5.9
Acting

When the sky really is falling and sanity has flown the coop, who will rise to save the day? Together with his hysterical band of misfit friends, Chic...

Hermie & Friends: A Fruitcake Christmas

Hermie & Friends: A Fruitcake Christmas

2005

as Wormie

7.5
Acting

It's Christmastime in the garden and Hermie and his friends are hustling and bustling to prepare for the big day. But more than anything they all eage...

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

2005

as Self (archive footage)

7.8
Acting

A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.

Hermie & Friends: Buzby, the Misbehaving Bee

Hermie & Friends: Buzby, the Misbehaving Bee

2005

as Wormie

Acting

In this animated adventure, Buzby the misbehaving bee is kicked out of the hive for his troublemaking and now he has made the garden his new home. His...

Hermie & Friends: Webster the Scaredy Spider

Hermie & Friends: Webster the Scaredy Spider

2004

as Wormie

6.0
Acting

A frightened little spider named Webster ventures into the garden. He's a walking encyclopedia of fears and phobias, shocked when the other denizens o...

Hermie & Friends: Flo the Lyin' Fly

Hermie & Friends: Flo the Lyin' Fly

2004

as Wormie (voice)

6.8
Acting

Stingo, Lingo, Bingo and Zingo are from Riverpool and they are on their way to perform. Flo is not happy. Her friends encourage her and try to teach h...

Hermie a Common Caterpillar

Hermie a Common Caterpillar

2003

as Wormie

3.5
Acting

So what's so bad about being a common caterpillar? Just ask Hermie-or his friend, Wormie-and they'll tell you. No splashy stripes. No stand-out spots....

The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo

2002

as Self

10.0
Acting

Cartoon Network holds an awards show awarding cartoon excellence.

Quints

Quints

2000

as Governor Healy

5.6
Acting

A teenager goes to desperate lengths to get attention when her mother gives birth to quints.

Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer

2000

as Mutt Potter (voice)

6.1
Acting

Get ready for a magical, fun-filled journey of adventure, fantasy and friendship! Tom Sawyer and his best buddy Huck Finn love going fishing, daydream...

Jingle Bells

Jingle Bells

1999

as Kris (voice)

6.0
Acting

A family with very little money worries about not being able to buy presents for each other, until they receive a little inspiration from a Christmas ...

Pleasantville

Pleasantville

1998

as TV Repairman

7.3
Acting

Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and...

Cats Don't Dance

Cats Don't Dance

1997

as T.W. Turtle (voice)

7.2
Acting

An ambitious singing and dancing cat in 1939 Hollywood overcomes several obstacles to fulfill his dream of becoming a movie star.

Big Bully

Big Bully

1996

as Principal Kokelar

4.5
Acting

A writer returns to his hometown where he faces the childhood nemesis whose life he ultimately ruined, only the bully wants to relive their painful pa...

Serial Mom

Serial Mom

1994

Thanks

6.7

Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascinatio...

Timmy's Gift: A Precious Moments Christmas

1991

as Titus (voice)

5.4
Acting

This is the story about an ordinary someone, much like you or me, who is called upon to accomplish a very important task. Little Timmy the Angel is gi...

The Little Troll Prince

The Little Troll Prince

1987

7.0
Acting

A little troll prince escapes his kingdom, perched atop a tall mountain in Norway, for the human world, where a family teaches him the true meaning of...

Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night

Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night

1987

as Gee Willikers (voice)

5.6
Acting

Pinocchio and his friends, a glow worm and a marionette, search for a magic music box, putting them in danger from the evil Scalawag and the Emperor o...

Return to Mayberry

Return to Mayberry

1986

as Barney Fife

6.2
Acting

After being away for awhile, Andy Taylor returns home to Mayberry to visit Opie, now an expectant father. While there he ends up helping Barney Fife m...

Cannonball Run II

Cannonball Run II

1984

as CHP #2

5.4
Acting

When a wealthy sheikh puts up $1 million in prize money for a cross-country car race, there is one person crazy enough to hit the road hard with wheel...

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

1982

as Self (archive footage)

6.0
Acting

A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions spanning from the 1930s through the 1980s.

The Private Eyes

The Private Eyes

1980

as Inspector Winship

6.1
Acting

The lord and lady of a capacious manor are killed, and the lord's ghost seems to have returned to knock off the staff one by one, causing Inspector Wi...

The Prize Fighter

The Prize Fighter

1979

as Shake

4.8
Acting

"Bags" the boxer (Tim Conway) and his manager, Shake (Don Knotts), are quite a pair: One is a dim bulb, and the other has a mean streak. Times are tou...

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again

1979

as Theodore

6.4
Acting

Amos and Theodore, the two bumbling outlaw wannabes from The Apple Dumpling Gang, are back and trying to make it on their own. This time, the crazy du...

The Muppets Go Hollywood

The Muppets Go Hollywood

1979

as Self

6.3
Acting

Kermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the premiere of the Muppets' first feature film, The Muppet Movi...

Hot Lead & Cold Feet

Hot Lead & Cold Feet

1978

as Denver Kid

5.9
Acting

Twin brothers -- one rough and tough, the other a city-bred milquetoast -- compete for their father's fortune.

Mule Feathers

Mule Feathers

1977

as Narrator / The Mule (voice)

1.0
Acting

A drifter con artist, impersonating a parson, arrives in a small Wild West town with his mule and becomes embroiled in the lives of several townsfolk.

Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo

Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo

1977

as Wheely Applegate

5.9
Acting

Herbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. But thieves have hidden a cache of stolen diamonds in Herbie...

Gus

Gus

1976

as Coach Venner

6.0
Acting

The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard fie...

Joys

Joys

1976

as Self

4.0
Acting

Over fifty of the greatest living comedians are called to a party at Bob Hope's house, where each of them is systematically killed (and their bodies t...

No Deposit, No Return

No Deposit, No Return

1976

as Bert Delaney

6.2
Acting

Two rich children devise a way to escape their grandfather and visit their mother. Unfortunately for two hapless safe crackers, they become part of th...

The Apple Dumpling Gang

The Apple Dumpling Gang

1975

as Theodore Ogelvie

6.5
Acting

A roving bachelor gets saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters stumble upon a huge gold nugget. They join forces with ...

I Love a Mystery

I Love a Mystery

1973

as Alexander Archer

6.0
Acting

Three insurance investigators search for a mysterious billionaire. Based on the Old Time Radio show of the same name.

The Man Who Came to Dinner

The Man Who Came to Dinner

1972

as Dr. Bradley

Acting

Lecturer and broadcaster Sheridan Whiteside has been invited to dinner at the home of a pompous small-town bigwig. But he stays rather longer than any...

How to Frame a Figg

How to Frame a Figg

1971

as Hollis Alexander Figg

6.2
Acting

Don Knotts is Hollis Figg, the dumbest bookkeeper in town. When the city fathers buy a second-hand computer to cover up their financial shenanigans, t...

How to Frame a Figg

How to Frame a Figg

1971

Story

6.2
Writing

Don Knotts is Hollis Figg, the dumbest bookkeeper in town. When the city fathers buy a second-hand computer to cover up their financial shenanigans, t...

The Love God?

The Love God?

1969

as Abner Audubon Peacock IV

6.0
Acting

Ornithologist Abner Peacock sells off his modest-selling birdwatching periodical to a charlatan who turns it into a girlie mag, making it a massive fi...

The Shakiest Gun in the West

The Shakiest Gun in the West

1968

as Dr. Jesse W. Heywood

6.2
Acting

Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cu...

Rowan & Martin at the Movies

Rowan & Martin at the Movies

1968

as Self

Acting

This public service short for U.S. Savings Bonds starts out with Rowan and Martin arriving at a TV studio, ostensibly to host a show. It turns out tha...

The Reluctant Astronaut

The Reluctant Astronaut

1967

as Roy Fleming

5.9
Acting

Roy Fleming is a small-town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space prog...

The Ghost & Mr. Chicken

The Ghost & Mr. Chicken

1966

as Luther Heggs

6.7
Acting

Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 y...

The Incredible Mr. Limpet

The Incredible Mr. Limpet

1964

as Henry Limpet

6.1
Acting

Milquetoast Henry Limpet experiences his fondest wish and is transformed into a fish. As a talking fish he assists the US Navy in hunting German subma...

Move Over, Darling

Move Over, Darling

1963

as Shoe Clerk

6.6
Acting

Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that ...

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

1963

as Nervous Motorist

7.0
Acting

A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is t...

The Last Time I Saw Archie

The Last Time I Saw Archie

1961

as Capt. Harry Little

5.7
Acting

Two Air Force friends have fun during their enlistment.

Wake Me When It's Over

Wake Me When It's Over

1960

as Sgt. Percy Warren

6.0
Acting

The war may be over, but that doesn't keep the hapless Gus Brubaker from being drafted and posted on a forgotten little Japanese Island...and that's j...

No Time for Sergeants

No Time for Sergeants

1958

as Cpl. John C. Brown

7.2
Acting

Georgia farm boy Will Stockdale is about to bust with pride. He’s been drafted. Will’s ready. But is Uncle Sam ready for Will?