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For his role on the show, he won three Emmy Awards for outstanding performance in a supporting role in a series. Though he left The Andy Griffith Show in to pursue a film career, his periodic returns in and '67 earned him two more Emmys. Later starring in several film comedies, Knotts also was part of the cast of Three's Company until its demise.

Knotts died of lung cancer on February 24, , at age 81, in Los Angeles, California.

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Before he entered high school, Knotts began performing as a ventriloquist and comedian at various church and school functions. He traveled to New York City to try and make his way as a comedian, but returned home to attend West Virginia University when his career failed to take off. After his freshman year, Knotts joined the U.

After graduating from college in , Don Knotts again moved to New York, where he quickly became a regular on several television and radio programs. In , he made his debut on Broadway in the hit comedy, No Time For Sergeants , which marked his first collaboration with Andy Griffith.

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Knotts appeared as a regular member of the ensemble cast on NBC's The Steve Allen Show , from to ; he moved to Hollywood when the show relocated in Knotts stayed with the tremendously successful show for five seasons, during which time he won three Emmy Awards for outstanding performance in a supporting role in a series.

His first leading role in a film came in , with The Incredible Mr. The part began a string of appearances in low-budget family films for Knotts, including The Ghost and Mr. Chicken , The Reluctant Astronaut and The Shakiest Gun in the West , winning him widespread recognition as a film actor. By , however, Knotts's clean-cut humor seemed somewhat out of place in a more sophisticated film industry, and he began to appear in a series of somewhat more juvenile films, beginning in with the Disney comedy-Western The Apple Dumpling Gang , co-starring comedian Tim Conway, who became a frequent collaborator.