In praise of Don Knotts: ... Sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith), his son Opie (Ron Howard ... Knotts and Griffith had appeared together on Broadway and in the 1958 film version of “No Time ...

Ron Howard, who found fame as a child star on the hit 1960s series “The Andy Griffith Show,” recently shared a photo on social media that showed him with his costars Andy Griffith and Don Knotts.

Don Knotts and Ron Howard in 1993. CBS/Courtesy Everett Collection. ... He played the son of Griffith, who played a widowed sheriff in the fictional town of Mayberry, North Carolina.