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No Time for Sergeants is a 1958 American comedy film based on a play by Ira Levin, which was inspired by the original novel.Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, it stars Andy Griffith and features Myron McCormick, Don Knotts and most of the original Broadway cast, joined by Murray Hamilton and Warner Bros. contract player Nick Adams.
See No Time for Sergeants (1958 film) No Time for Sergeants was filmed and released by Warner Bros. in 1958. The film was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starred Griffith, McCormick, Knotts, and most of the rest of the original Broadway cast.
No Time for Sergeants was nominated for an Emmy Award as the best program of the year, [4] but lost out to the Producers' Showcase presentation of Peter Pan. [5] Alex Segal was also nominated for an Emmy Award as best director in a live series. [6] Andy Griffith in 1955
In 1958, Knotts made his film debut in the adapted version of No Time for Sergeants. Knotts was cast as deputy Barney Fife on television's The Andy Griffith Show, which ran from 1960 to 1968. He reprised the character on other shows, such as The Joey Bishop Show and Return to Mayberry.
No Time for Sergeants is considered the direct inspiration for the later television situation comedy Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. [13] – a spin-off of The Andy Griffith Show. His only other New York stage appearance was the title role in the 1959 musical Destry Rides Again, co-starring Dolores Gray.
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Hutchins was also cast as a guest star on Cheyenne, Bronco, Maverick and 77 Sunset Strip. [6] He had small roles in the Warners movies Bombers B-52 (1957), Lafayette Escadrille (1958), and No Time for Sergeants (1958) where he screen tested for the lead of Will Stockdale with James Garner playing the psychiatrist. [7]
Jamie Farr (born Jameel Joseph Farah; July 1, 1934) is an American comedian and actor.He is best known for playing Corporal Klinger, a soldier who tried getting discharged from the army by cross-dressing, on the CBS sitcom M*A*S*H.