Is it possible to get a major supporting role on a major television show, and have it cripple your acting career?
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It nearly happened to George Lindsey. You remember him as Goober from The Andy Griffith Show.
Taking that role, he says ,typecast him for years to come.
I met him about 25 years ago, when he wrote a memoir called Goober in a Nutshell.
So here now, from 1995, George Lindsey.
George Lindsey was 83 when he died in 2012. but thanks to Andy Griffith Show reruns, Goober lives on.