Ron Howard, who started his career in show business playing the son of Andy Griffith's sheriff character on the 1960s sitcom, said he recently found out he and Knotts are distant cousins.

Knotts died in 2006 at the age of 81 of complications ... Turns out Mayberry was smaller than we knew. Ron Howard, who found fame as a child star on the hit 1960s series “The Andy Griffith ...

Ron Howard revealed some startling information about his former Andy Griffith Show co-star Don Knotts in an Instagram post last weekend. Knotts, the celebrated comedian who died at 81 in 2006 ...

15, Ron Howard shared a sweet photo on Instagram from ... only to decide it should be Andy’s job once more. Knotts died in 2006. He was 81 years old. Griffith died in 2012 at age 86.