Unless the series is going to be about marriage, he explained, it is a tremendous hindrance to the writer to have. Another of the show’s actors Jack Dodson, who played Howard Sprague starting in the show’s sixth season, told Kelly marriage in Mayberry just wouldn’t have worked. He died of complications due to pneumonia in 1969 at the age of 63. 1 theory for why no one was married in Mayberry. She returned to the role of Helen Crump in two reunion shows, Return to Mayberry in 1986 and The Andy Griffith Show Reunion in 1993. After a series of mini-strokes further limited his ability to perform, McNear left the show for good in 1967. It seems that Helen was once a gangsters moll when she lived in Kansas City. Griffith and company encouraged him to return, but when McNear finally did come back to the series, he usually had to do so from a seated position, as he had limited use of the left side of his body for the rest of his life. With Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Frances Bavier, Aneta Corsaut. Early in the show's run, he suffered a stroke that took him out of Mayberry for a year.
Though he divided his time on the show with film roles in now-classics like "Blue Hawaii" and "Irma la Douce," Floyd would ultimately become McNear's last major character. That is, Betty Lynn, whom everybody knows as Barney Fife’s girlfriend on The Andy Griffith Show, passed away in October 2021. She was born in the city of Hutchinson on November 3, 1933. The actress died only a few days after her 62nd birthday in. ANETA CORSAUT Like her character Helen Crump, Aneta Corsaut is a native of Kansas. Whether he was a direct part of Andy and Barney's adventures or just a passive observer, he was always there with a clever line or two to contribute to the overall sense of Mayberry as a community where the barbershop was the center of gossip and, in some ways, governance of the town. Aneta Corsaut had a long struggle with cancer, but on November 6, 1995, she gave up the ghost. She also appeared in spinoff program Mayberry R.F.D. Don Knotts left The Andy Griffith Show after five years in 1965, and 55 years later, theres still questions as to why he departed the series. Helen was a schoolteacher and became main character Sheriff Andy Taylors girlfriend. Yes, Aneta Corsaut, who played Helen Crump, became Andys real-life lover almost immediately after joining the cast of The Andy Griffith Show in 1963. Helen made her debut in the third-season episode 'Andy Discovers America' (1963). As Floyd the Barber, McNear became an essential party of life Mayberry. Helen Crump is a fictional dramatic character on the American television program The Andy Griffith Show (19601968).