Jim Nabors is an interesting one. Born in a small town, in Alabama, in 1930 Got interested in singing and acting while at the U of Alabama Got his first break with a job at a radio station in Chattanooga.
His signature was playing Gomer Pyle, on the Andy Griffin show. He got his own show, on TV.. Gomer Pyle, USMC.
Nabors was openly gay. He and his husband retired to Honolulu, where he died at the age of 89. He died when his system collapsed, following a kidney transplant, several years earlier.
Okie Drifter.