What happened to Don Knotts?

Knotts died at age 81 on February 24, 2006, at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from pulmonary and respiratory complications of pneumonia related to lung cancer.

Is Don Knotts his real name?

Before he was ‘Don Knotts’⁠—Emmy Award-winning actor and TV personality⁠— he was Jesse Donald Knotts, born on July 21, 1924 in Morgantown, WV.

Why did Don Knotts daughter leave his deathbed?

When Don Knotts was on his deathbed, his daughter Karen needed to run out of the room so she could laugh. The actor, best known for starring as bumbling, bug-eye Deputy Barney Fife on “The Andy Griffith Show,” died in 2006 at age 81 from pulmonary and respiratory complications.

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What happened to Don Knotts?