Don Knotts was one of those rare actors who could make you laugh without saying a word. Best remembered as the loveably ...

Don Knotts, the saucer-eyed ... his mother with a knife and later spent time in mental hospitals, while older brother Earl — nicknamed “Shadow” because of his thinness -- died of asthma ...

Fox News: What was Don Knotts like as a dad ... He came from an alcoholic older brother and a paranoid schizophrenic father. He was living in extreme poverty during the Depression.

When Don Knotts was on his deathbed ... “He had problems with his father and an older brother who tormented him because they were alcoholics. "When his father passed, he was 13 years old.

Don Knotts died on this date February 24 in 2006 ... “He had problems with his father and an older brother who tormented him because they were alcoholics.” Don went to a lot of therapy.

Don Knotts, the saucer-eyed ... his mother with a knife and later spent time in mental hospitals, while older brother Earl — nicknamed “Shadow” because of his thinness -- died of asthma ...