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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 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.
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
Nicholas Aloysius Adamshock [a] (July 10, 1931 – February 7, 1968), better known as Nick Adams, was an American film and television actor and screenwriter.He was noted for his roles in several Hollywood films during the 1950s and 1960s, including Rebel Without a Cause and Giant along with his starring role in the ABC television series The Rebel (1959–1961).
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.
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.
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.