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How a Shakespearean Actor From the Bronx Became ‘The Andy Griffith Show’s Ernest T. Bass

Fans of The Andy Griffith Show first met wild-eyed mountain man Ernest T. Bass in the Season 3 episode “Mountain Wedding.” A neighbor of the musical hillbilly clan the Darlings, Bass, played by Howard ...
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Comic Actor, Director Howard Morris Dies

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Howard Morris, best known for playing poetry-spouting hillbilly Ernest T. Bass on the Andy Griffith Show, died at his home in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. He was 85.Morris ...