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No Time for Sergeants (1958) More at IMDbPro »

• Mac Hyman based his best selling novel on his experiences growing up in Cordele, GA, and as a navigator in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
  
  
• This was Don Knotts' first film. He met Andy Griffith when Knotts had a small part in Broadway's "No Time For Sergeants". Griffith remembered Knotts when he was looking for someone to play bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on "The Andy Griffith Show" (1960). The two formed a lifelong friendship, with Knotts later making guest appearances on Griffith's TV series "Matlock" (1986). In 2006, Griffith even broke the news of Knotts' passing to the media.
  
  
• A live TV production starring Andy Griffith had previously been telecast on "The United States Steel Hour" (1953) on March 15, 1955 -"The United States Steel Hour: No Time for Sergeants (#2.14)" (1955).
  
  
• The stage production of "No Time for Sergeants" by Ira Levin opened at the Alvin Theater in New York on October 20, 1955 and ran for 796 performances. Andy Griffith received a 1956 Tony Award nomination for Best Actor.
  
  
• Andy Griffith was nominated for the 1956 Tony Award for Supporting or Features Actor in a Drama for "No Time for Sergeants" as Private Will Stockdale and played the role in the stage, television and movie productions.
  
  

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