If it worked, the actor might come back for a few more episodes and eventually got a contract and a parking space on the lot. If it didn't work, they were gone." Hal Smith in 1937 (second from ...

Actor Hal Smith played Mayberry’s Otis Campbell Played by Smith, Mayberry’s continuously inebriated citizen was Otis Campbell. Otis could always count on a bed in Sheriff Taylor’s jail cell ...

He fronted his own orchestra in the 1930s (‘Hal Smith and His Music’), was a radio actor, appeared in burlesque in Los Angeles after his discharge from the Air Force and has been a familiar ...

If it worked, the actor might come back for a few more episodes and eventually got a contract and a parking space on the lot. If it didn't work, they were gone." Hal Smith in 1937 (second from ...