(LAT File Photo ) Andy Griffith's death on Tuesday meant the most prominent cast member of the landmark Andy Griffith Show had finally departed. Costar Don Knotts preceded Griffith in death in 2006 and Frances Bavier (who played Aunt Bea) died in 1989. Many of Mayberry's older residents have been long gone, such as Floyd the barber (Howard McNear) in 1969 and Otis the drunk (Hal Smith) in 1994.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/03/entertainment/la-et-st-andy-griffith-mayberry-cast-where-are-they-now-20120703
Netlore Archive: Viral image purportedly shows the young Frances Bavier (the actress who played Aunt Bee Taylor on the Andy Griffith Show) as a 1940s pin-up model. Viral image.
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Mini Bio (1) Frances Bavier was born in New York City on December 14, 1902. Her first Broadway appearance was in April 1925 in The Poor Nut, the start of a successful Broadway career. She traveled with the USO to entertain the U.S. troops in the Pacific during World War II.
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Aunt Bee was a looker! No, I am serious. Briscoe Darling, the various traveling salesmen, and all her other suitors on the Andy Griffith Show had it right. She was some catch…but no one ever did! Frances Elizabeth Bavier was born in New York on December 14, 1902.
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She also found work in television appearing in It’s a Great Life (1956), The Eve Arden Show (1957), and Perry Mason (1957). Originally cast as a whining widow lady in the 1960 pilot for The Andy Griffith Show, Bavier made such an impression that the part of Aunt Bee was created for her virtually on the spot.
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Aunt Bee. Beatrice Taylor (commonly known as Aunt Bee) is a fictional character from the 1960s American television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show. The show was televised on CBS from October 3, 1960, until April 1, 1968. The character migrated to the spinoff Mayberry R.F.D. (1968–1971) when The Andy Griffith Show ended its run, and remained for two years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Bee
Bavier would play Aunt Bee for eight seasons and then was the only member of the original Griffith Show cast to stay on for the spin-off Mayberry RFD. Bavier would win an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Comedy” in 1967.
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Netlore Archive: Viral image purportedly shows the young Frances Bavier (the actress who played Aunt Bee Taylor on the Andy Griffith Show) as a 1940s pin-up model. Whimsy.
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Actress Betty Lynn, who played Thelma Lou on 'The Andy Griffith Show', will celebrate her 90th birthday with friends and fans in Mount Airy, N.C. Andy Griffith and Don Knotts in a classic scene about an exploding goat. . A publicity photo from 1960 with Don Knotts and Andy Griffith.
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Actress Betty Lynn, who played Thelma Lou on 'The Andy Griffith Show', will celebrate her 90th birthday with friends and fans in Mount Airy, N.C. Mark Washburn The Charlotte Observer. Andy Griffith and Don Knotts in a classic scene about an exploding goat.
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who played aunt bea
Aunt Bea was played by Frances Bavier. Frances Bavier played aunt bee.