When the team behind The Andy Griffith Show cast Elinor Donahue as Ellie Walker, they had big plans for the character. Unlike Andy Taylor’s later love interests, Donahue was billed as one of the ...

Elinor joined the show as Ellie Walker, a charming druggist and Andy Taylor’s love interest. After the end of her previous series, Father Knows Best, she landed the role of Ellie at just 23 ...

While the heart of The Andy Griffith Show (which aired on CBS from 1960 to 1968) was the relationship between Sheriff Andy Taylor (Griffith) and Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife (Don Knotts), almost as ...

In 1960, she joined the cast of The Andy Griffith Show, playing Sheriff Andy Taylor’s love interest Ellie Walker. The character did not return for the sitcom’s second season, ...

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In the first season of the classic comedy The Andy Griffith Show, Andy Taylor’s initial love interest Ellie Walker was played by Father Knows Best alum Elinor Donahue.. Donahue had only ...

The characters of Andy Taylor, Floyd Lawson, Ellie Walker and Helen Crump all got their names from from towns nearby Mount Airy, North Carolina: Taylorsville, Lawsonville, Walkertown, Crumpler. 6 ...

The show ended almost 50 years ago, and in recent years the number of surviving cast members has dwindled (Andy Griffith himself died in 2012).

Thanks to a varied cast and a number of regular character actors, ... That is, Betty Lynn, whom everybody knows as Barney Fife’s girlfriend on The Andy Griffith Show, ... (Ellie Walker) The ...

The show ended almost 50 years ago, and in recent years the number of surviving cast members has dwindled (Andy Griffith himself died in 2012).