Ron Howard, who started his career in show business playing the son of Andy Griffith's sheriff character on the 1960s sitcom, said he recently found out he and Knotts are distant cousins.

Turns out Mayberry was smaller than we knew.Ron Howard, who found fame as a child star on the hit 1960s series “The Andy Griffith ... He played the son of Griffith, who played a widowed sheriff ...

Jason Ritter was only three degrees of separation from original Matlock star Andy Griffith, but he never got a chance to meet the iconic actor. On Sunday, March 23, Ritter, 45, joined costars Kathy ...