WW: Despite the fact that you're Don Knotts' brother-in-law, did you go into this book with one idea of who Andy and Don were ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Late in April 1993, I interviewed funny and famously fidgety (on screen that is) comedian Don Knotts, while he was co-starring with lovely Barbara Eden (soon to be 92!) in a national tour of the N ...

At the same time, bring up the subject of the show to people, more often than not they'll respond with some variation of "I love Barney Fife—Don Knotts is just great!" "People connected with him ...