Legendary multihyphenate Andy Griffith has died, his close friend and UNC president Bill Friday told North Carolina's WITN-TV. Griffith was found in his Dare County, N.C. home on Tuesday morning; he was 86.

Television viewers first met Griffith through his 1950s appearances on variety programs such as The Ed Sullivan Show and The Steve Allen Show, but it was the role of Sheriff Andy Taylor in…