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...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
2011
as Himself
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
2007
as Self (archive footage)
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
2007
as Wormie (voice)
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
2006
as Sniffer (voice)
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
2006
as Wormie
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
2006
as Wormie (voice)
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
2005
as Mayor Turkey Lurkey (voice)
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
2005
as Wormie
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
2005
as Self (archive footage)
A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.

Hermie & Friends: Buzby, the Misbehaving Bee
2005
as Wormie
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
2004
as Wormie
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
2004
as Wormie (voice)
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
2003
as Wormie
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
Cartoon Network holds an awards show awarding cartoon excellence.

Quints
2000
as Governor Healy
A teenager goes to desperate lengths to get attention when her mother gives birth to quints.

Tom Sawyer
2000
as Mutt Potter (voice)
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
1999
as Kris (voice)
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
1998
as TV Repairman
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
1997
as T.W. Turtle (voice)
An ambitious singing and dancing cat in 1939 Hollywood overcomes several obstacles to fulfill his dream of becoming a movie star.

Big Bully
1996
as Principal Kokelar
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
1994
Thanks
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)
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
1987
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
1987
as Gee Willikers (voice)
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
1986
as Barney Fife
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
1984
as CHP #2
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!
1982
as Self (archive footage)
A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions spanning from the 1930s through the 1980s.

The Private Eyes
1980
as Inspector Winship
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
1979
as Shake
"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
1979
as Theodore
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
1979
as Self
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
1978
as Denver Kid
Twin brothers -- one rough and tough, the other a city-bred milquetoast -- compete for their father's fortune.

Mule Feathers
1977
as Narrator / The Mule (voice)
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
1977
as Wheely Applegate
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
1976
as Coach Venner
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
1976
as Self
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
1976
as Bert Delaney
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
1975
as Theodore Ogelvie
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
1973
as Alexander Archer
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
1972
as Dr. Bradley
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
1971
as Hollis Alexander Figg
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
1971
Story
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?
1969
as Abner Audubon Peacock IV
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
1968
as Dr. Jesse W. Heywood
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
1968
as Self
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
1967
as Roy Fleming
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
1966
as Luther Heggs
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
1964
as Henry Limpet
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
1963
as Shoe Clerk
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
1963
as Nervous Motorist
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
1961
as Capt. Harry Little
Two Air Force friends have fun during their enlistment.

Wake Me When It's Over
1960
as Sgt. Percy Warren
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
1958
as Cpl. John C. Brown
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?