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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.
No Time for Sergeants is a 1954 best-selling novel by Mac Hyman, which was adapted into a teleplay on The United States Steel Hour, a popular Broadway play and 1958 motion picture, as well as a 1964 television series.
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 .
Griffith had experienced success earlier in 1958 with his service comedy No Time for Sergeants, and Onionhead was an attempt to cash in on that success. It was mistakenly marketed as an uproarious comedy, but it is actually a comedy-drama with some dark themes, including theft and adultery.
Wallace Michael Shawn (born November 12, 1943) is an American actor, essayist, playwright, and screenwriter. He is known for playing Vizzini in The Princess Bride (1987), Mr. Hall in Clueless (1995), Dr. John Sturgis in Young Sheldon (2018–2024), and voicing Rex in the Toy Story franchise (1995–present).
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
The same year, he performed in No Time for Sergeants as the representative of the draft board who summoned Will Stockdale (Andy Griffith) from his rural home in Georgia to the United States Air Force. [7] He later joined Sam Peckinpah's stock company in 1965's Major Dundee, playing a professional horse thief.
No Time for Sergeants: Corporal John C. Brown 1960 Wake Me When It's Over: Sergeant Percy Warren 1961 The Last Time I Saw Archie: Captain Harry Little 1963 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Nervous Motorist 1963 Move Over, Darling: Shoe Clerk 1964 The Incredible Mr. Limpet: Henry Limpet 1966 The Ghost and Mr. Chicken: Luther Heggs 1967 The ...