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.

Karen and her brother, Tom, grew up in Glendale ... very worldly and debonair.” Don Knotts was a multi-faceted man, as Karen described. Like many famous comedians, Don struggled with mental ...

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, 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 ...

author of Andy and Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show as well as Knotts' brother-in-law. "Barney ...

But to his daughter, Karen, Don Knotts is simply Dad ... the early challenges he faced growing up with an alcoholic father and brother, who were abusive as well; the way he turned his life ...

In real life, Andy Griffith and Don Knotts continued their friendship ... including how they dealt with fame and personal struggles. As Knotts’ brother-in-law, de Visé gives readers an inside ...

In commemoration of the 100th birthday of Don Knotts, the annual Don Knotts Festival ... Nikki Bowman Mills “On Saturday, July 20, we have his brother-in-law, Daniel de Vise, coming in to ...

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 ...