Jim Nabors

Jim Nabors was an American actor and singer best known as Gomer Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show (CBS, 1962–1964) and Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (CBS, 1964–1969). He was in a relationship with Stan Cadwallader for nearly 40 years, and the two married in Seattle in 2013 when Nabors was 82 years old — one of the most celebrated late-life public acknowledgments of a long gay partnership. Nabors had kept his relationship private for decades, reflecting the absolute impossibility of being an openly gay television star in the 1960s.