harold john smith played the town drunk on the andy griffith show.
harold john smith played the town drunk on the andy griffith show.
who played the town drunk on the andy griffith show?
harold john smith
hal smith (actor)









































harold john smith (august 24, 1916 – january 28, 1994) was an american actor and voice actor, who was best known for his role as otis campbell, the town drunk on cbs's "the andy griffith show".
hal smith (actor)
the premiere episode was a major success for cbs, buoyed by guest appearances by "the andy griffith show" regulars don knotts, george lindsey and paul hartman. lindsey and hartman explicitly played "goober" and "emmett", their characters on both "the andy griffith show" and "mayberry r.f.d." (still on the air at the time); this is confirmed in both dialogue and in the closing credits. knotts, meanwhile, played an unnamed character who was identical in mannerisms to barney fife of "the andy griffith show". all three characters were "old friends" of the character andy sawyer; they dropped by his new house, ostensibly to welcome him to town, but actually to seek political favors. these mayberry characters treated andy sawyer exactly as if he were andy taylor, and the two characters had similar backstories: both andys by this point were married and had two children (although taylor's two sons, opie and infant andy jr., were both boys as opposed to sawyer's one boy and one girl), and prior to the start of "the new andy griffith show", both were living in larger cities.
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