HONOLULU — Jim Nabors, the Alabama-born comic actor who starred as TV’s dim but good-hearted Southern rube Gomer Pyle and constantly surprised audiences with his twang-free operatic singing ...

comedian and singer Jim Nabors. Nabors is best known for the signature character Gomer Pyle he played on “The Andy Griffith Show” and later his own spinoff, “Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.,” as well ...