He wrote about it in the memoir penned alongside his brother, Clint Howard, titled The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family. “Andy Griffith and Don Knotts also came, which moved me to no end ...

I think he has truly adopted me at last.” The Andy Griffith Show star added that she would have dinner often with Ron Howard, his brother Clint, his father Rance, and his mother Jean.

While the heart of The Andy Griffith Show (which aired on CBS from 1960 to 1968) was the relationship between Sheriff Andy ...