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  • Born: June 12, 1930, Sylacauga, AL
  • Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, 2000s
  • Genres: Vocal Music
  • Instrument: Vocals
  • Representative Albums: "16 Most Requested Songs," "Jim Nabors' Christmas Album," "Jim Nabors by Request"
  • Representative Songs: "The Lord's Prayer," "Sunrise, Sunset," "The Impossible Dream"

Biography

While better known as an actor thanks to his immortal role as television's bumbling Gomer Pyle, Jim Nabors also enjoyed a successful career as an easy listening balladeer. Born June 12, 1930, in Sylacauga, AL, he graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in business administration, but later found himself working in TV as an apprentice editor; at much the same time, he also pursued a career as a cabaret singer. In 1963, Nabors was hired to guest star on an episode of the popular Andy Griffith Show; although his role as the hayseed Gomer was originally intended as a one-shot, the character proved such a hit with audiences that he went on to become a featured player for the next two seasons. In 1965, Nabors even received his own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., in which Gomer appeared as a hapless Marine Corps private. During a 1964 guest appearance on The Danny Kaye Show, Nabors first displayed his vocal prowess; his baritone subsequently graced dozens of albums, including a number of gospel and country efforts. From 1969 to 1972, he hosted his own variety program, The Jim Nabors Show, and also regularly performed in concert; while touring in a production of Man of La Mancha, Nabors popularized the song "The Impossible Dream." ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
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  • Born: Jun 12, 1930 in Sylacauga, Alabama
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '60s, '80s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Comedy Drama
  • Career Highlights: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Return to Mayberry, Stroker Ace
  • First Major Screen Credit: The Andy Griffith Show: Season 03 (1962)

Biography

Jim Nabors, he of the vacuous expression and the dumbstruck expletives "Gawwwleee" and "Shazzayam," graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in business administration. Nabors' first TV job was as an apprentice film cutter; shortly afterward, he launched a fitfully successful career as a cabaret singer. In 1963, he was hired to play the one-shot role of gas station attendant Gomer Pyle on the top-rated The Andy Griffith Show. Essentially a build-up to a punchline (Griffith explained to a nonplused stranger that the goofy Gomer planned to become a brain surgeon), Nabor's hayseed character proved so popular that he became a regular on the series. In 1964, with Griffith's manager Richard O. Linke calling the shots, Nabors was spun off into his own weekly sitcom, Gomer Pyle USMC, which ran for five successful seasons. Televiewers got their first inkling that there was more to Nabors than Gomer when, on a 1964 Danny Kaye Show, he revealed his rich, well-modulated baritone singing voice. He went on to record 16 popular record albums, utilizing his high-pitched Gomer voice in only one of them (1965's Shazzam). Nabors' larynx was further deployed on his TV variety series The Jim Nabors Show (1969-72), on the 1967 opening episode (and every subsequent season opener) of The Carol Burnett Show, and in countless personal appearances all over the world. Additionally, Nabors starred in such 1970s Saturday morning kiddie efforts as Krofft Supershow, The Lost Saucer and Buford and the Galloping Ghost (voice only). He played his first serious role as a vengeful hillbilly on a 1973 episode of TVs The Rookies, and essayed comic supporting parts in such good-ole-boy films as Cannonball Run (1978) and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), both starring his close friend Burt Reynolds. Because Nabors never married, he found himself the target of numerous ugly and unfounded rumors concerning his private life. When he became deathly ill in the mid-1980s, there were those who jumped to the conclusion that Nabors had contacted AIDS. In fact, he had fallen victim to a particularly vicious form of hepatitis, picked up (according to Nabors) when he cut himself while shaving in India. Nabors recovered from his ailment after a highly publicized liver transplant saved his life. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Jim Nabors

Jim Nabors in 2007
Born James Thurston Nabors
June 12, 1930 (1930-06-12) (age 79)
Sylacauga, Alabama, USA
Other name(s) Jim Nabors, Jay Nab
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James Thurston "Jim" Nabors (born June 12, 1930) is an American actor and singer. Born and raised in Sylacauga, Alabama, Nabors moved to Southern California due to his asthma. While working at a Santa Monica nightclub, The Horn, he was discovered by Andy Griffith and consequently joined The Andy Griffith Show, playing Gomer Pyle, a dim-witted gas station attendant. The character proved popular, and Nabors was given his own spin-off show, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Though best known for his portrayal of Gomer Pyle, Nabors became a popular guest on variety shows in the 1960s and 1970s (including two specials of his own in 1969 and 1974) after revealing a rich baritone voice. He subsequently recorded numerous albums and singles, most of them containing romantic ballads.

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Biography

Early life and career

Nabors was born to Mavis and Fred Nabors in Sylacauga, Alabama, where he sang for his high school and church. He attended the University of Alabama, where he began acting in skits. After graduating, he moved to New York, where he worked as a typist for the United Nations;[1][2] after a year, he moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he got his first job in the television industry as a film cutter. Due to his asthma, he moved to Los Angeles and worked as a film cutter for NBC. He moonlighted at a Santa Monica tavern, The Horn, singing and acting in cabaret theater.[3][4] His act featured him as a character similar to the Gomer Pyle character he would later portray: he would sing in a baritone and sometimes his higher-pitched voices and speak in a higher-pitched voice.[5] At the club, comedian Bill Dana saw Nabors's act and invited him to appear on The Steve Allen Show. Nabors signed on to the show, but it was soon canceled.[6]

Breakthrough and popularity

It was at The Horn where Nabors was discovered by Andy Griffith and was hired to play a one-shot role of Gomer Pyle, an "addlebrained" gas station attendant, on The Andy Griffith Show.[7] Nabors's character (based on his act at The Horn) became so popular that he was made a regular on the show and was later given his own show, the spin-off Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., in which his character joined the United States Marine Corps. The show, which placed Nabors's "bumbling" and "naive" character opposite Sergeant Vince Carter (Frank Sutton), also proved popular. Despite its airing during the Vietnam War, a time of "profound disillusionment with war and the military", Gomer Pyle remained popular because it avoided war-related themes and instead focused on the show's rural roots and the relationship between Pyle and Sgt. Carter.[8][9][10] Eventually, however, CBS decided that rural comedies were not well-received by their target demographic and canceled the show after six successful seasons.[8]

Nabors revealed his rich baritone voice on a 1964 episode of The Danny Kaye Show and subsequently capitalized on it with numerous successful records and live performances.[11][12] Most of the songs were romantic ballads, though he also sang pop, gospel, and country songs.[13][14][15][16] He also hosted his own variety show, The Jim Nabors Hour (1969–1971), which also featured his Gomer Pyle co-stars Ronnie Schell and Frank Sutton.[17] Despite poor critical reception, the show proved popular.[18][19] After the cancellation of The Jim Nabors Hour, Nabors embarked on a nation-wide roadshow.[20]

Later career

"Locked into" his role as Gomer Pyle, Nabors's subsequent roles were mostly comedic.[13] In the 1970s, he appeared in the children's television programs Krofft Supershow and Buford and the Galloping Ghost. He also appeared in every season premiere of The Carol Burnett Show because Burnett considered him a "good-luck charm".[21] However, on a 1973 episode of The Rookies, he played his first "serious" role, a man called on to be an assassin after the death of his sister.[22][23] From 1977 to 1978, Nabors hosted another variety show, The Jim Nabors Show. Though the show only lasted one season, Nabors was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Host or Hostess in a Talk, Service or Variety Series.[24] Nabors eventually grew tired of the "prime-time TV grind" and abandoned television jobs for nightclub and concert gigs and a role in a touring production of Man of La Mancha.[16] However, Sid and Marty Krofft persuaded Nabors to star in the television show The Lost Saucer, a show about two bumbling androids, Fi (Ruth Buzzi) and Fum (Nabors), who travel through time with two children. Nabors, whose character was described as a "Gomer Pyle in outer space", sang in a few of the episodes.[25]

In the 1980s, at the request of his friend Burt Reynolds, Nabors appeared in three feature-length films which starred Reynolds. In The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), about a sheriff (Reynolds) who falls in love with a brothel madam (Dolly Parton), Nabors played Deputy Fred, a character similar to Gomer Pyle.[26][27] Though the film was given mostly unfavorable reviews, Nabors garnered some praise for his performance.[28] However, not only was 1983's Stroker Ace (about a race car driver [Reynolds] who fights a fried-chicken chain entrepreneur) panned, Nabors earned a Golden Raspberry Award for his performance as the title character's mechanic.[29] In Reynold's "star-studded" Cannonball Run II (1984), about a cross-country car chase, Nabors made a cameo appearance alongside such celebrities as Dom DeLuise, Jackie Chan, Shirley MacLaine, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Andy Griffith Show co-workers Don Knotts and George Lindsey.[30] Like Reynolds's previous two films, Cannonball received mostly negative reviews.[31] In 1986, Nabors returned to television, reprising his role as Gomer Pyle in the television movie Return to Mayberry, in which the cast of The Andy Griffith Show reunited.[32] In 1986, Nabors starred in the half-hour comedy pilot "Sylvan in Paradise" as the title character, Sylvan Sprayberry, an accident-prone bell captain at a Hawaiian hotel. The series was not picked up by NBC.[33]

After moving to Hawaii from Bel Air, California in 1976, he launched a show, "The Jim Nabors Polynesian Extravaganza", at the Hilton Hawaiian Village; it ran for two years. Nabors eventually experienced "bright light burnout" and disappeared from the stage save for an occasional performance. In 1984, after a five-year hiatus, Nabors returned to performing, starring in the "Moulin Rouge" show at the Las Vegas Hilton and other shows in Reno and Las Vegas.[34] He made his theatrical debut as Harold Hill in The Music Man with Florence Henderson at the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre.[35]

Nabors at the Indianapolis 500. For over 30 years, Nabors has sung "Back Home Again in Indiana" before the start of the race.

In 1994, Nabors suffered from a near-fatal case of hepatitis B. According to Nabors, he contracted the disease while traveling in India; he shaved with a straight razor and "whacked [his] face all up".[36] The disease caused liver failure, and Nabors was not given a hopeful prognosis; however, his friend Carol Burnett made an arrangement with the transplant division of UCLA and secured Nabors a transplant.[37] Nabors later became involved in the American Liver Foundation as a result of his experience.[38] Shortly after recovering from his liver transplant, Nabors embarked on another tour, with stops in Phoenix, St. Louis, and Washington.[39] From 1997 to 2006, Nabors starred in the Burton White-produced A Merry Christmas with Friends and Nabors, a live performance at the Hawaii Theatre Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. The production, featuring local and national artists, ran for forty performances and was directed by Tom Hansen until his death in 2006. The final performance run was directed by John Rampage and dedicated to Hansen.[40] For over 30 years, he has sung "Back Home Again in Indiana" with the Purdue All-American Marching Band before each Indianapolis 500.[41][42]

Personal life

Nabors's successes have earned him accolades. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1991.[43] "Gomer Pyle" received an honorary promotion to Lance Corporal from the Commandant of the Marine Corps James L. Jones in 2001, and on September 25, 2007, he was promoted from Lance Corporal to Corporal by Lt. General John F. Goodman.[44][45] The Hawaii Pacific University awarded Nabors the Fellow of the Pacific Award for his "outstanding leadership, service, and dedication to the community".[41] In 2006, he was inducted into the Alabama Stage and Screen Hall of Fame.[46] He received honors from the University of Alabama on September 2, 2006, before a football game against the University of Hawaii. On January 19, 2007, he, along with U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye, was honored on January 19, 2007, at "A Night of American Heroes," a yearly dinner held in benefit of the Battleship Missouri Memorial at Pearl Harbor.[47] U.S. Highway 280 in Talladega County, Alabama, was named "Jim Nabors Highway" in honor of the Sylacauga native.[41]

As he was "never without a job" for four decades, Nabors has never married: according to him, he was "really more married to his career".[37] Consequently, he has been the target of rumors alleging he is gay.[48][49] In the 1970s, a rumor began circulating that Nabors and then-closeted actor Rock Hudson were to marry. Though supposedly intended as a joke (with the punchline being that Hudson would then be known as "Rock Pyle"), the rumor was picked up by media and spread across the country.[50] Nabors was "horrified" by the rumor, as he felt that it hindered his ability to portray himself as something other than a comedic character.[51]

Nabors began vacationing in Hawaii in the 1960s, and in 1976, moved from Bel Air, California to Honolulu, Hawaii. For twenty-five years, he owned a macadamia nut plantation on Maui before selling it to the National Tropical Botanical Gardens, a conservationist organization (he still retains farming rights to the land and owns a second home on the property).[52]

Selected discography

Nabors has recorded twenty-eight albums and numerous singles; the albums listed have either been certified gold or platinum by the RIAA.

  • 1966: Jim Nabors Sings Love Me With All Your Heart (Gold)
  • 1968: Jim Nabors Sings The Lord's Prayer (Gold)
  • 1980: The Heart Touching Magic Of Jim Nabors (Platinum)
  • 1990: Jim Nabors Christmas Album (Gold)

Partial filmography

Television
Year Title Role Notes
1961 The Steve Allen Show Himself  
1963 The Danny Kaye Show Himself  
1964 The Andy Griffith Show Gomer Pyle  
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. Gomer Pyle  
1966 The Lucy Show Pvt. Gomer Pyle One-shot role
1969 The Jim Nabors Hour Himself (host) Was nominated for a Golden Globe (Actor In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy)[53]
1976 The Carol Burnett Show Himself  
The Lost Saucer Fum  
The Muppet Show Himself Episode number 1.06 originally aired 27 September in New York, and 02 October in L.A.[54]
1978 The Jim Nabors Show Himself (host) Nominated for a Daytime Emmy (for Outstanding Host or Hostess in a Talk, Service or Variety Series)[24]
1986 Return to Mayberry Gomer Pyle Television movie
Films
Year Title Role Notes
1982 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Deputy Fred Feature-film debut
1983 Stroker Ace Lugs Harvey Won a Golden Raspberry Award for his role.[29]
1984 Cannonball Run II Pvt. Homer Lyle  

Notes

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