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Jim Nabors, left, and Frank Sutton, on the TV series “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.”
Associated Press; thumbnail, Associated Press, 2001
Jim Nabors
Died on November 30, 2017 at age 87
A comic actor, Mr. Nabors found fame in the role of the amiable bumpkin Gomer Pyle in two hit television shows of the 1960s while pursuing a second career as a popular singer with a booming baritone voice.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.