Andy Griffith Filmography

Christmas Is Here Again

Actors: Jay Leno, Ed Asner, Kathy Bates, Madison Davenport, Colin Ford

Synopsis: A young orphan and her loyal group of friends band together in order to prevent Christmas from being destroyed by a nefarious grinch named Krad in this holiday-themed animated adventure narrated by Jay Leno. Santa's toy bag has been stolen, and if it isn't recovered soon the world's children will Read More

Daddy & Them

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Jeff Bailey, Brenda Blethyn, Laura Dern, Jim Varney, Daniel Steven Di Vito, Diane Ladd, Walton Goggins, Andy Griffith

Synopsis: Billy Bob Thornton wrote, directed, and starred in this serio-comic look at the trials (literally and figuratively) of an eccentric Arkansas family. Struggling musician Claude (Thornton) and his wife Ruby (Laura Dern) get the news that Claude's uncle Hazel (Jim Varney) has been accused of murder Read More

Jeff Foxworthy: Comedy Classics Deluxe Edition

Synopsis: Comedian and author Jeff Foxworthy hosts this program, tracing the history of Southern comedy. Jeff Foxworthy: Comedy Classics Deluxe Edition includes live footage from the wildly successful stage show featuring Foxworthy and Bill Engvall, along with clips highlighting comedians of yesterday and Read More

A Holiday Romance

Actors: Naomi Judd, Gerald McRaney, Andy Griffith, Alison Pill, Jayne Easton

Synopsis: Why is it that, in holiday-themed TV movies, someone always comes to a small town to close down some business or other during Christmas week? In the case of A Holiday Romance, it is straitlaced school administrator Cal Peterson (Gerald McRaney), who arrives in town in the middle of the holiday Read More

Scattering Dad

Actors: Olympia Dukakis, Andy Griffith, Lucinda Jenney, Michelle Burke, August Schellenberg

Synopsis: In this bittersweet comedy-drama, Olympia Dukakis plays Dotty, a woman with extreme agoraphobia. Dotty's condition has prevented her from leaving her house for the past 20 years, but just before her husband Hiram (Andy Griffith) died, he made Dotty promise that she would scatter his ashes near Read More

Spy Hard

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Nicollette Sheridan, Charles Durning, Marcia Gay Harden, Barry Bostwick

Synopsis: The first of several sight gag and slapstick-rich comedies he produced without the team of Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, and Jim Abrahams, this lowbrow comedy from executive producer and star Leslie Nielsen suffers by comparison to his work with the "ZAZ" team. Nielsen plays Dick Steele, secret Read More

Gramps

Actors: Andy Griffith, John Ritter, Mary-Margaret Humes

Synopsis: Andy Griffith shed a bit of his nice-guy image in this made-for-TV movie, in which he plays Jack McGruder, the elderly father of Clarke McGruder (John Ritter), a successful lawyer. Jack has been missing for years, and Clarke has spent some time trying to track down his father's whereabouts; after Read More

The Gift of Love

Actors: Andy Griffith, Blair Brown, Olivia Burnette, Will Friedle, Joyce Van Patten

Synopsis: Reeling with guilt after he accepts the healthy heart of his darling, deceased grandson, an elderly man lapses into a deep depression that does not abate until he hooks up with a troubled teenage runaway. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Under the Influence

Actors: Andy Griffith

Synopsis: Under the Influence is a TV movie about an alcoholic, scripted by recovered alcoholic Joyce Rebeta-Burdett. Andy Griffith plays the head of an outwardly respectable New England family. Griffith drinks heavily, but the rest of the family sweeps his addiction under the rug. When Griffith lands in Read More

Matlock: Season 01

Actors: Andy Griffith

Return to Mayberry

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, Jim Nabors, Ron Howard, Howard Morris

Synopsis: Inspired by the success of previous TV sitcom "reunion" films, Return to Mayberry debuted on April 13, 1986. Eleven of the original cast members of the classic Andy Griffith Show were reunited in this marvelous blast from the past. The plot finds former sheriff Andy Taylor (Griffith, of course) Read More

Diary of a Perfect Murder

Actors: Andy Griffith

Synopsis: "Not since Columbo has catching a killer been this clever!" That was the ad come-on for Diary of a Perfect Murder, a 1986 TV movie starring Andy Griffith as a homespun Georgia defense attorney. Griffith takes the case of a TV reporter (Steve Inwood) who has been accused of the murder of his Read More

Crime of Innocence

Synopsis: In this prison drama, two adolescent girls are incarcerated with adults by an obsessive judge. There they are terribly exploited and abused. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rustlers' Rhapsody

Actors: Tom Berenger, G.W. Bailey, Marilu Henner, Andy Griffith, Fernando Rey

Synopsis: An amusing spoof of the good 'ole westerns back in the halcyon days when all the cliches were held up as icons, this parody by Hugh Wilson works best for savvy audiences. Rex O'Herlihan (Tom Berenger) is a singing cowboy with a wardrobe straight out of the Hollywood westerns of the '40s -- he Read More

Fatal Vision

Actors: Karl Malden, Eva Marie Saint, Gary Cole, Barry Newman, Andy Griffith

Synopsis: Convicted murderer Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald had hoped that, by telling his side of the story to investigative journalist Joe McGinniss, the authorities would be persuaded of MacDonald's innocence. Instead, McGinniss ended up unswerving in his belief of MacDonald's guilt, and the result was the Read More

The Demon Murder Case

Actors: Eddie Albert, Ken Kercheval, Joyce Van Patten

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Demon Murder Case has received an inordinate amount of airplay since its initial telecast on March 6, 1983. We suspect that this has something to do with its star, a young and callow fellow name of Kevin Bacon. Though he receives top billing, Bacon is hardly the hero of the piece; Read More

Murder in Coweta County

Actors: Andy Griffith, Johnny Cash

Synopsis: Based on actual events from 1948 and made into a TV movie in 1983, this story concerns a corrupt Georgia businessman (Andy Griffith) who murders an employee and thinks he has gotten away with it. The local lawman (Johnny Cash) has other plans, but needs to gather enough evidence to prove his case. Read More

For Lovers Only

Actors: Katherine Helmond, Gordon Jump, Tracy Pollan, Gary Sandy

Synopsis: The made-for-TV For Lovers Only was the pilot film for a potential series titled Honeymoon Hotel. Set in the Poconos, the story takes place in a fancy honeymoon resort managed by Vernon Bliss (Andy Griffith). Belying his name and professional, Bliss is far from Blissful, especially when bickering Read More

Murder in Texas

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV docudrama, Sam Elliott stars as John Hill, a Houston plastic surgeon accused of the murder of his socialite wife Joan, the daughter of oil baron Ash Robinson. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Salvage 1 [TV Series]

Actors: Andy Griffith, Joel Higgins, Richard Jaeckel, Trish Stewart

Synopsis: In this sci-fi film, the Vulture rocket and its crew must fly to space to save an endangered communications satellite. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Roots: The Next Generations

Actors: Georg Stanford Brown, Olivia de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Paul Koslo

Synopsis: The phenomenal success of the 1977 ABC miniseries Roots all but demanded a sequel to writer Alex Haley's epic story of his African and African-American forebears. Debuting February 18, 1979, Roots: The Next Generations picked up where its predecessor left off, with Haley's slave ancestors winning Read More

From Here to Eternity

Actors: Natalie Wood, William Devane, Steve Railsback, Kim Basinger

Synopsis: Having previously spawned an Academy Award-winning film, which starred Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, and Frank Sinatra, James Jones' best-selling military novel From Here to Eternity was adapted into a six-hour miniseries in 1979. Set in Honolulu in 1941 in the days prior to the December 7 attack Read More

Centennial

Actors: William Atherton, Raymond Burr, Richard Chamberlain, Timothy Dalton, Alex Karras, Robert Conrad

Synopsis: The longest (26-1/2 hours), most expensive ($25 million) and most complicated (four directors, five producers, five cinematographers, almost 100 speaking parts, several hundred extras) project made for television up to that time, Centennial was shown in two- and three-hour installments over a Read More

Washington: Behind Closed Doors

Synopsis: This 12-hour TV miniseries (expanded from a 2-hour concept) was based on the political "roman a clef" The Company, by Watergate coconspirator John Erlichman. It was originally titled simply Washington; the Behind Closed Doors part was added to avoid a potential lawsuit from Gore Vidal Read More

Deadly Game

Actors: Andy Griffith

Synopsis: Twice during the mid-1970s, Andy Griffith unsuccessfully attempted to launch a TV detective series titled Abel Marsh. The first pilot film was The Girl in the Empty Grave; the second was The Deadly Game. Griffith once again stars as resort-town sheriff Abel Marsh, this time wrestling with a Read More

The Girl in the Empty Grave

Actors: Andy Griffith

Synopsis: Girl in the Empty Grave was the third of four TV pilot films for a proposed Andy Griffith detective series. Griffith stars as Abel Marsh, a small-town police chief whose casual demeanors hides a sharp analytical mind and gift for deduction. The plot gets under way when a young girl shows up in Read More

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Synopsis: Directed by Stacy Keach, this 1976 made-for-television movie features a performance of Nobel Prize-winner Luigi Pirandello's fantastical drama Six Characters in Search of an Author. Starring Andy Griffith, the play takes place on the set of a made-for-television adaptation of Pirandello's The Read More

Frosty's Winter Wonderland

Actors: Andy Griffith, Shelley Winters

Synopsis: The sequel to the original animated Frosty the Snowman, Frosty's Winter Wonderland originally appeared on television in 1976. Narrated by Andy Griffith, it tells the story of Frosty's friends, the children, who decide to make him a snow-wife named Crystal. Jack Frost is not happy about the Read More

Street Killing

Synopsis: In this detective drama, a prosecutor investigates a murder and finds that it is connected to a recent mugging. In the end, he is led to convict a high-ranking crime lord. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hearts of the West

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith, Donald Pleasence, Blythe Danner, Alan Arkin

Synopsis: Hearts of the West (British title: Hollywood Cowboy) stars Jeff Bridges as Lewis Tater, a 1930s-era aspiring novelist who harbors dreams of becoming the next Zane Grey or Peter B. Kyne. He arrives in Nevada to seek out the correspondence school that has "graduated" him. After learning that he's Read More

Savages

Synopsis: Andy Griffith goes from good guy to bad, in this thriller. He plays a murdering lawyer who chases his hunting guide across the desert because the guide witnessed him murder an old miner. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Pray for the Wildcats

Synopsis: In this made-for-television drama, a trio of advertising executives take a motorcycle trip across the desert and end up in a life-threatening situation. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Winter Kill

Synopsis: Winter Kill was the pilot film for a potential Andy Griffith TV series, to be titled MacNeil. Griffith plays the easygoing sheriff in a Northwestern ski resort town (actually Big Bear, California). The object of Griffith's attentions is a mysterious serial killer, who leaves puzzling Read More

Go Ask Alice

Synopsis: "Alice" was the pseudonymous name of the teenaged author who wrote the book upon which this above-average TV movie was based. Jamie Smith-Jackson portrays a shy, slightly overweight high schooler who is so anxious for acceptance that she falls in with the drug crowd. In a methodical, almost casual Read More

The Strangers in 7A

Actors: Andy Griffith, Michael Brandon, Ida Lupino

Synopsis: Andy Griffith plays a philandering apartment house manager who picks up a pretty young girl (Suzanne Hildur) in a bar. He takes her home, whereupon the girl's male cronies show up armed with guns. Griffith and his wife Ida Lupino are held hostage by the crooks, led by Michael Brandon, who plan to Read More

Angel in My Pocket

Actors: Andy Griffith, Jerry Van Dyke, Kay Medford, Lee Meriwether, Henry Jones

Synopsis: Minister Sam (Andy Griffith) and his wife Mary Elizabeth (Lee Meriweather) move to a Kansas town divided by political concerns that stall the town's progress. Will Sinclair (Henry Jones) and Alex Gresham (Edgar Buchanan) have allowed a long-standing family argument to impede the progress of the Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Season 08

Actors: Andy Griffith, Ronny Howard, Frances Bavier

Synopsis: The Andy Griffith Show may have been America's top-rated series during its eighth season on the air, but star Andy Griffith had decided that he would leave the program at season's end, and that was that. The departure of Griffith's character, Mayberry sheriff Andy Taylor, is carefully orchestrated Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Season 07

Actors: Andy Griffith, Frances Bavier, Ronny Howard, George Lindsey

Synopsis: Proof positive that The Andy Griffith Show had been on the air for seven seasons by the fall of 1966 was offered in the season opener, "Opie's Girlfriend," in which Opie Taylor (Ronny Howard), all of six years old when the series started, has entered the dating scene! In a related development, it Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Season 06

Actors: Andy Griffith, Frances Bavier, Ronny Howard, George Lindsey

Synopsis: The sixth season of The Andy Griffith Show was the first season to be filmed in color -- and the first to do without the services of longtime co-star Don Knotts, who had abandoned his Emmy-winning role of Mayberry deputy Barney Fife to pursue a film career. For a while, it looked as though star Andy Griffith Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Season 05

Actors: Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, Frances Bavier, Ronny Howard, George Lindsey

Synopsis: With The Andy Griffith Show as hilarious and highly rated as ever during its fifth season on the air, one would never suspect that there was trouble brewing in Mayberry, NC. The source of the difficulty was Don Knotts, who had won three Emmy awards for his performance as Barney Fife, the Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Season 04

Actors: Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, Frances Bavier, Ronny Howard, Jim Nabors

Synopsis: The fourth season of The Andy Griffith Show opens with one of the series' finest episodes, as well as the favorite episode of co-star Ronny Howard (now better known as film director Ron Howard). "Opie the Birdman" poignantly details the efforts by Opie Taylor (Howard), son of Mayberry sheriff Andy Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Season 03

Actors: Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, Frances Bavier, Ronny Howard, Jim Nabors

Synopsis: The Andy Griffith Show offered some of its best-ever episodes during the series' third season on the air. Highlights include "Andy and the New Mayor," introducing Parley Baer as Mayberry's freshly elected mayor, Roy Stone; "The Cow Thief," in which sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) and deputy Read More

The Second Time Around

Actors: Debbie Reynolds, Steve Forrest, Andy Griffith, Juliet Prowse, Thelma Ritter

Synopsis: Though the title suggests that this film is a musical romance built around the song hit of the same name, Second Time Around is actually a comedy western. Debbie Reynolds plays a young widow who in 1912 moves with her children to a wild and wooly Arizona town. At first having trouble coming to Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Season 02

Actors: Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, Frances Bavier, Ronny Howard

Synopsis: One of the few unqualified hits of the 1960-1961 season, The Andy Griffith Show was a shoe-in for a second season renewal come September of 1961. Back in the saddle are Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor, easygoing sheriff of Mayberry, NC; Don Knotts as Andy's nervous, anal-retentive deputy Barney Fife; Ronny Howard Read More

The Andy Griffith Show [TV Series]

Actors: Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, Ronny Howard, Frances Bavier, Howard McNear

Synopsis: The pilot for the long-running CBS sitcom The Andy Griffith Show was seen on February 15, 1960, as an episode of The Danny Thomas Show, "Danny Meets Andy Griffith." As originally conceived, Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) was not only the sheriff of the sleepy North Carolina town of Mayberry, but he Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Season 01

Actors: Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, Frances Bavier, Ronny Howard

Synopsis: The "ensemble" feel of The Andy Griffith Show has not entirely solidified during the series' first season on CBS. Thus, we find more episodes centering exclusively around the character of Mayberry, NC sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) than would be customary in later seasons. Still, there is Read More

No Time for Sergeants

Actors: Andy Griffith, Nick Adams, Myron McCormick, Murray Hamilton, Howard I. Smith

Synopsis: Mac Hyman's hilarious barracks novel No Time for Sergeants was adapted for TV by Ira Levin in 1955, with newcomer Andy Griffith as bumptious Air Force draftee Will Stockdale. This TV version was soon afterward transformed into a Broadway play, and then a movie, again with Griffith in the lead. Read More

Onionhead

Actors: Andy Griffith, Felicia Farr, Walter Matthau, Joe Mantell

Synopsis: In his third starring feature, Onionhead, Andy Griffith plays a character somewhere inbetween the bucolic ingenuousness of Will Stockdale in No Time for Sergeants and the hotheaded truculence of Lonesome Rhodes in A Face in the Crowd. Griffith is cast as Al Woods, a college student majoring in Read More

A Face in the Crowd

Actors: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick

Synopsis: The meteoric popularity of Arthur Godfrey was allegedly the basis of the 1957 drama Face in the Crowd. Andy Griffith makes a spectacular film debut as Lonesome Rhodes, a philosophical country-western singer discovered in a tanktown jail by television talent coordinator Patricia Neal and her Read More

No Time for Sergeants

Actors: Andy Griffith, Eddie Le Roy, Joe Brown, Jr.

Synopsis: This slapstick comedy was originally performed on live television and chronicles the exploits of Georgia hayseed Will Stockdale, after he is inducted into the army. Mayhem ensues as he tries to adjust to the sophisticated ways of military life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The American Sportsman: Bird Hunting