George Lindsey was an American character actor, best known for his role as "Goober Pyle" on The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D. and his subsequent tenure on Hee-Haw. George Lindsey was born in Fairfield in populous Jefferson County, Alabama, and grew up in the small town of Jasper. Lindsey graduated from Walker High School in 1946 and then attended Kemper Military School in Boonville, Missouri, and Florence State College in Florence , where he received a Bachelor of Bioscience in 1952. After graduating from college he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and was stationed at Ramey AFB in... Puerto Rico. After his discharge, he taught for a year at Hazel Green High School in Hazel Green, Alabama, while awaiting to be accepted by the American Theater Wing in New York City in 1956. After graduating from the American Theater Wing and performing in two Broadway plays, "Wonderful Town" and "All American", he moved to Los Angeles in 1962.
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