{"id":1198,"date":"2006-02-26T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-26T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2006-02-26T12:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-26T16:46:00","slug":"don-knotts-darren-mcgavin-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1198","title":{"rendered":"Don Knotts &amp; Darren McGavin: RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stallonezone.com\/z022606knotts_mcgavin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stallonezone.com\/z022606knotts_mcgavin.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Pictured above are <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">Darren McGavin<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> and                  <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">Don Knotts <\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">who appeared together in <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">Disney&#8217;s No Deposit,                  No Return<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">. As many of you have already heard, both recently                  passed away within a day of each other.               <\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\" class=\"bodytext\"><b>Don Knotts<\/b>, best known as the bumbling                  but loveable <b>Barney Fife <\/b>on<b> The Andy Griffith show,                  <\/b>died on <b>Friday<\/b> from pulmonary and respiratory complications.                  <b>Knotts<\/b> appeared in more than <b>25 films and seven tv series<\/b>                  but it was his role as <b>Barney Fife<\/b> that brought him the                  most awards [<b>five Emmys<\/b>] and <b>fan recognition<\/b>. Looking                  at <b><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0461455\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">Mr.                  Knotts&#8217; filmnography<\/span><\/a><\/b>, it&#8217;s obvious that he would                  have had a successful career even without the role of <b>Barney                  Fife<\/b> [over <b>50 years<\/b> in the business, movies, tv, etc.],                  but the world would have been a bit sadder place.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">               <\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\" class=\"bodytext\"><b>Darren McGavin<\/b>, <b>83<\/b>, passed away                  on <b>Saturday f<\/b>rom natural causes. Although <b>Mr. McGavin<\/b>                  had a <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0569000\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">long,                  successful career<\/span><\/b><\/a> in <b>movies<\/b> and on <b>television<\/b>;                  there were two roles that standout for me. The first was as newspaper                  reporter, <b>Carl Kolchak<\/b> who discovered a real vampire in                  modern day <b>LA<\/b> in the made for tv movie <b>&#8220;Kolchak:                  The Night Stalker.&#8221; <\/b> [Although I was never a fan of the                  series that the movie spawned&#8230;] The second role was that of                  <b>Ralphie<\/b>&#8216;s dad in the classic <b>&#8220;A Christmas Story.&#8221;                  <\/b><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">               <\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\" class=\"bodytext\">My thoughts and prayers go out to the families,                  friends and fans of both <b>Mr. McGavin<\/b> and <b>Mr. Knotts<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured above are Darren McGavin and Don Knotts who appeared together in Disney&#8217;s No Deposit, No Return. 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