who portrayed gomer pyle
Jim Nabors, a singer and comic actor who played the bumbling but good-natured hayseed Gomer Pyle on âThe Andy Griffith Showâ before starring as an unlikely Marine recruit in âGomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.,â one of the most popular sitcoms of the 1960s, died Nov. 30 at his home in HonoÂ­lulu. He was 87.