Was floyd the barber gay

I don't recall seeing Floyd's wife and second son on the show. Recently he stepped out of his favorite characterization to play the doctor in Anatomy of a Murder ; it brought him a slew of offers for straight roles. But one series that is very much in a league of its own is The Andy Griffith Show.

He was born and raised in Mayberry, having descended from one of the town's original settlers, Daniel Lawson. Howard gravitated towards radio, where his talents were perfectly suited. Floyd the Barber was the slow-paced, somewhat absent-minded barber in the series' fictional town of Mayberry.

At first he wanted me to play it straight and I tried it for a couple of rehearsals. And then there were Westerns Fort Laramie, The Six Shooter and the show he was best known for, voicing Doc on Gunsmokewhich was a radio hit long before it was adapted to television.

Then they agreed it would be better for me to do it my own way. My agent could have killed me and so could my wife. I have scripts from The Andy Griffith Show and there are some lines which may not have much to them, but the actors took those words and made them entertaining.

Howard began appearing on television in with gay uncle hypothesis anthology series Four Star Playhouse. George Lindsey in particular was telling me that even on days he was off he would go to the set just to watch Howard McNear work.

I prefer specialized bits. As noted above, playing Floyd was actor Howard McNear, who had enjoyed an extensive career in radio and some television long before he arrived in Mayberry at the age of Although he left for a time, he was warmly invited back and managed to make the character even more memorable despite his limitations.

They had grown themselves as far as they could possibly grow, which was not very much, and then kind of made themselves into town elders, remarking on everything that went on, because somehow everything in town was their business. In Novemberin Floyd the Gay Deceiver, the Mayberry barber pretends he is rich and tries to have a relationship with a female pen pal.

He was just so much like the actual character he was portraying that it was a joy to watch. Elvis had to call back twice, and the reason he persisted is that he really liked Howard and just wanted to call and talk to him.

In pen-pal correspondences with a wealthy widow, Floyd has presented himself as equally well off. He was a caricature of all of the small-town men who had become business owners. Floyd had his son play a saxophone and he was not seen again.

The character of Floyd was not an airhead in the beginning. Floyd, the Gay Deceiver: Directed by Bob Sweeney. With Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Don Knotts, Frances Bavier. I think perhaps its my own mannerisms — exaggerated, of course.

Howard did that again and again. He received his first dramatic training from Patia Power, mother of actor Tyronne Power. I guess that kind of tells you a little bit about the guy he was that people he worked with in movies and television tried to stay in touch with him after it was all over.

I fitted him into the part of an absent-minded lawyer for a Jack Benny show, and he called me for another show. Army Air Corps. But it was a serious thing; they wanted me for a judge who was committing a girl to a mental institution. Her sudden decision to visit Mayberry leaves him in a tizzy and begging for Andy's help in maintaining the ruse.