Don Knotts [SEP] cause of death
", described him as a "very quiet man. Very sweet. Nothing like Barney Fife." TV writer Mark Evanier called him "the most beloved person in all of show business."
Death.
Knotts died at age 81 on February 24, 2006, at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California from pulmonary and respiratory complications of pneumonia related to lung cancer. He had been undergoing treatment at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in the months before his death, but he returned home after
death in 2008. Conway referred to Korman as, "The smartest man I knew but couldn't tie his shoelaces."
Collaborators Don Knotts.
When Conway was starting his career in Hollywood, so was Don Knotts. Both men were regulars on "The Steve Allen Show", though at different times. They didn't have the chance to work together until Disney Studios paired the two men on the Apple Dumpling Gang series of films, and their comedy clicked; Knotts's boisterous, Barney Fife-style bungling both