Who was the black actor or athlete to make a guest appearance on the Andy Griffith show?

i dont think so

Originally posted by autaylor7
Who was the black actor or athlete to make a guest appearance on the Andy Griffith show? Are you quizzing us? Do you know the answer? If so, what is it? I don't know, but how about Jim Brown?

Opie's football coach. I don't even know the guy's name, but it was the ep when Opie had to choose between piano lessons and football. I have to look this up.
7-26 215 13 Mar 67 Opie's Piano Lesson
Opie discovers that football practice and piano lessons are competing for his attention. Argh! It doesn't tell his name. I'll come back if I find his name.

Found it. Rockne Tarkington look at his trivia. Generally believed to be the first black actor to appear on the Andy Griffith Show and the first to appear in a recurring role in a television series (Daktari)


http://us.imdb.com/Name?Tarkington,+Rockne

Jenny i like your picture of Norman Bates and back to the topic i never seen a blck man or woman on the AG Show

Originally posted by Fred G Cleaver
Jenny i like your picture of Norman Bates and back to the topic i never seen a blck man or woman on the AG Show

Thanks :)

There is a black lady standing beside Barney in the episode where he accidentally captures the criminal while writing a ticket for littering and the state police comes up to get him. It is the episode where the criminal says. "I'll get you for this...deputy ! "

there's also a black person in the episode "Citizens Arrest" (the one where Barney gives Gomer a ticket for making an illegal U-turn, then Gomer makes a "citizens arrest" against Barney for doing the same thing). She can be seen in the background when Barney & Gomer are arguing.

Originally posted by dav4463
There is a black lady standing beside Barney in the episode where he accidentally captures the criminal while writing a ticket for littering and the state police comes up to get him. It is the episode where the criminal says. "I'll get you for this...deputy ! " so there were black people on the show! I always though that Mayberry had a law against blacks, or something!:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

so there were black people on the show! I always though that Mayberry had a law against blacks, or something!:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I don't know very much about North Carolina history, but was Segregation still happening there in the 1960s as it was in Georgia, Alabama, and other Southern states?

I don't know very much about North Carolina history, but was Segregation still happening there in the 1960s as it was in Georgia, Alabama, and other Southern states?

Yes, until the Civil Rights Bill was signed in 1964 by Pres. Johnson...

There's also some black guys that can be seen when Ernest T. Bass goes to sign up to enlist in the Army..They were standing in line outside the entrance to the office...

I don't know very much about North Carolina history, but was Segregation still happening there in the 1960s as it was in Georgia, Alabama, and other Southern states?
Sheldon Lenoard said in an interview once that if they showed what it was like for blacks in a small southern town in the 60s the show wouldn't still be on all these years later.

Originally Posted by Will Dockery
I don't know very much about North Carolina history, but was Segregation still happening there in the 1960s as it was in Georgia, Alabama, and other Southern states?

Sheldon Lenoard said in an interview once that if they showed what it was like for blacks in a small southern town in the 60s the show wouldn't still be on all these years later.

I can believe that. Had the show been a drama, it might could've been really groundbreaking to show the plight of African-Americans during that time period in America. Of course, a sitcom can do that too with a sense of humor as well- Norman Lear did that with All in The Family a few years later.

Yes, until the Civil Rights Bill was signed in 1964 by Pres. Johnson...

There's also some black guys that can be seen when Ernest T. Bass goes to sign up to enlist in the Army..They were standing in line outside the entrance to the office...

Also, just everyone in Mayberry didn't hang out at the Barber Shop or outside the Courthouse... just the small circle of friends.

In a town of what, a few thousand people, hardly none made any significant appearances in the episodes, white or black.

Sheldon Lenoard said in an interview once that if they showed what it was like for blacks in a small southern town in the 60s the show wouldn't still be on all these years later.

There was a bitterly funny comix satire by Drew Friedman years ago that depicted the Mayberry regulars as more vicious Southern folks, with a black person appearing. I haven't seen this story in several years or more and am not sure offhand where it appeared, maybe National Lampoon or the later RAW Magazine.

I'm not finding that story... if was pretty rough, maybe someone involved with the AGS took legal action and had it suppressed? But I did find an excellent portrait of Don Knotts by Drew Friedman:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ouxxa0eFam8/S9eN9g018xI/AAAAAAAAIJk/KUPwknXNphw/s1600/Picture%2B12.png

Okay, I found a couple of the pages and they were from Raw #1, not very good visibilty, though:

http://www.undergroundcomixart.com/drawings/main.php?g2_itemId=1319

And

http://www.undergroundcomixart.com/drawings/main.php?g2_itemId=1323

I saw that years ago too and it's one of Friedman's nastier comics. He sometimes did stuff that went beyond cynical and into nasty. He usually likes old stuff but it seems he had no affection for the show at all. What also surprised me was it was so badly drawn, or maybe he wanted to make it ugly.
I usually like his work a lot and buy his books. The story he and his brother Josh did about "The incredible Shrinking Joe Franklin" was fantastic.

I saw that years ago too and it's one of Friedman's nastier comics. He sometimes did stuff that went beyond cynical and into nasty. He usually likes old stuff but it seems he had no affection for the show at all. What also surprised me was it was so badly drawn, or maybe he wanted to make it ugly.
I usually like his work a lot and buy his books. The story he and his brother Josh did about "The incredible Shrinking Joe Franklin" was fantastic.

Yes, it was some truly harsh material!

I saw am episode of Mayberry RFD when Goober's older brother came to town. The brother was a NASA engineer and the joke was the brother was so smart while Goober was...well...not so much.

There was a dinner with the men of the community, with Sam, (Ken Berry), Emmet, Howard Sprague and others and there was a black man in the group who was older and a well respected member of the community. He has a speaking part. I do not know the actor's name, but I have seen him in a lot of things.

Opie's football coach was African American. In the old black and white shows, there is one crowd scene with some black faces, and in the episode where Ernest T. Bass tries to join the Army, during induction and the physical (which Ernest T. Flunked out and ran off) there were one or two African American guys in the line (laughing their ass off at Howard Morris).

It would have been good if there were an African American character in TAGS, and there should have been and I think Andy Griffith would have wanted it, but it did not happen.

Yes, until the Civil Rights Bill was signed in 1964 by Pres. Johnson...

There's also some black guys that can be seen when Ernest T. Bass goes to sign up to enlist in the Army..They were standing in line outside the entrance to the office...

It lingered on in schools and some businesses down here in the Deep South (North Carolina is hundreds of miles north of here) until Nixon finally pushed "forced bussing" through around 1970-71.