Andy Griffith, Mayberry Sheriff, Lawyer Matlock, Dies at 86
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Andy Griffith, who played the sheriff of Mayberry on television in the 1960s and the folksy criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock two decades later, has died. He was 86.
He died yesterday at his coastal home on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, and was buried there, according to Dare County Sheriff J.D. “Doug” Doughtie, citing a statement from the family. No cause of death was given.