Emmy wanda ya lashe lambar yabo da kuma dan wasan kwaikwayo Jesse Donald "Don" Knotts (21 ga watan Yuli, 1924 - Fabrairu 24, 2006) ya fi kyau saninsa a matsayin mataimakin Barney Fife a kan Andy Griffith Show da kuma ayyukansa kamar Mr. Furley a cikin 1970s sitcom uku na kamfanin . Kwanan nan, ya bayar da muryar Mayor Turkiyya Lurkey a fim mai suna Chicken Little (2005). Yawan aikinsa na shekaru arba'in ya ƙunshi jerin fina-finan bakwai da fiye da fina-finai 25.
Shekarun Farko:
An haifi Don Knotts a Morgantown, West Virginia, kimanin sa'a daya a kudu na Pittsburgh, zuwa Elsie L. Moore (1885-1969) da William Jesse Knotts (1882-1937). Shi ne ƙananan 'ya'ya maza hudu a cikin iyali da ke fama ta cikin damuwa. Mahaifinsa, wanda ya kamu da makanta mai tsabta da rashin jin tsoro a gaban Don, an haife shi, ya bar gidansa. Mahaifiyarsa ta kula da iyalinsa ta hanyar shiga cikin masu shiga. Ɗaya daga cikin 'yan uwansa, Shadow, ya mutu ne yayin harin da aka samu a fuka-fuki yayin da Don ya kasance matashi.
Don basirar aiki a wasan kwaikwayo da kuma wasan kwaikwayo ya bayyana a farkon. Ko da kafin shiga makarantar sakandare Don yana aiki ne a matsayin mai sassaucin ra'ayi da kuma malami a cocin gida da kuma makaranta. Ya koma birnin New York bayan kammala karatunsa don ya gwada kokarinsa a matsayin dan wasan kwaikwayo, amma a lokacin da aikinsa bai yi nasara ba, ya koma gida zuwa Morgantown don halartar Jami'ar West Virginia.
Lokacin da WWII ta zo, an katse ilimi na Don na dan lokaci kaɗan don raunana tare da Sashen Harkokin Kasuwancin Sojoji, suna jin dadi ga sojojin dakarun Kudu maso yammacin na Pacific kamar yadda ake yi a cikin hotunan Stars da Gripes.
Bayan samun dimokuradiyya, Don ya koma gida, ya kammala digiri tare da digiri a wasan kwaikwayon a shekarar 1948.
Family Life:
Don Knotts ya yi auren kolejin koleji, Kathryn Metz, a 1947, kuma bayan kammala karatun, ma'aurata sun koma Birnin New York inda Don ba da daɗewa ba ya zama na yau da kullum a kan telebijin da shirye-shirye na rediyo.
Ma'aurata suna da 'ya'ya biyu - Karen da Thomas - kafin a sake yin auren a 1964. Don ya auri matarsa na biyu, Loralee Czuchna, daga 1974 zuwa 1983.
Ayyukan Ayyuka:
A 1955, Don Knotts ya fara bugawa Broadway a wasan kwaikwayon wasan kwaikwayon, Babu Time for Sergeants , da farko tare da Andy Griffith. Har ila yau, Knotts ya bayyana a matsayin wani memba na rukuni na NBC na Steve Allen Show , daga 1956 zuwa 1960.
Lokacin da Steve Allen Show ya sake komawa a shekarar 1959, Knotts ya ci gaba da komawa Hollywood. A shekara ta 1960, ya shiga abokinsa, Andy Griffith, a sabon sitcom, Andy Griffith Show , yana taka leda a matsayin mataimakin mai shari'a Sheriff Barney Fife. Babban aikinsa na farko a fim ya zo a 1964, tare da Mista Limpet Mai Girma , kuma ya biyo bayan fina-finai na kasafin kasa, ciki har da Ghost and Mr Chicken (1966) , The Reluctant Astronaut (1967), Shakiest Gun a yamma da kuma Ample Dumpling Gang (1975).
Komawa zuwa gidansa na TV:
Don Knotts ya sake komawa ga matakan da suka samu a talabijin na 1979, ya shiga cikin wasan kwaikwayo, Kamfanin na uku , a matsayin mai siya mai suna Mr. Furley. Ya kasance tare da wasan kwaikwayo har sai ya tashi a cikin iska a shekarar 1984. Don Knotts kuma ya sake yin aiki tare da Andy Griffith don fim din fim zuwa Mayberry .
Ya kuma buga makwabta mai suna Les Calhoun, a cikin Andy Griffith's Matlock jerin, daga 1988 zuwa 1992. Don Knotts ya wallafa wani tarihin rayuwarsa - Barney Fife da sauran Ma'aikatan da na san a 1999.
Don Knotts ya mutu ranar 24 ga watan Fabrairun 2006, na ciwon huhu da na numfashi a cikin Cedars Sinai Medical Center. Ya kasance 81.
Awards & Lura:
Don Knotts ya lashe kyautar Emmy guda biyar, don Ayyukan Kwarewa, a Gidan Gida a cikin Harshe don aikinsa a Andy Griffith Show .