Andy Griffith papers, 1949-1997.

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Andy Griffith papers, 1949-1997.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31070091

The collection primarily contains films, videotapes, and scripts from Andy Griffith's television shows including "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Matlock". There are also films of Griffith's motion pictures "A Face in the Crowd", "No Time for Sergeants", and "Onionhead:; scripts for "The Andy Griffith Show", "Mayberry R.F.D.", "Matlock", and other productions; photographs of Griffith; letters from Griffith to his parents while a student at the University of North Carolina; audio discs by and belonging to Griffith; and other items.

ca. 1100 items (33.0 linear ft.)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7305686

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Class of 1949.

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Griffith, Andy, 1926-2012

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Andy Griffith was born in Mount Airy, N.C., on 1 June 1926. He attended the University of North Carolina and was graduated in 1949. As an actor, he quickly gained fame through his portrayal of an illiterate hillbilly in the Broadway and film versions of No Time for Sergeants (1955). He also used this character in monologues such as What it Was Was Football and in appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show . Although he continued to appear in films ( A Face in the Crowd in 1956 and Onionhead in 1958), i...