We Bet You Didn’t Know Some of These Things about the Life and Career of Don Knotts

Cannonball Run II

Don Knotts also featured in Cannonball Run II, released in 1984 in order to quickly be forgotten as a commercial flop. The film has a very similar plot to the first, original film, about an illegal cross-country car race. Like a few other film flops Knotts had parts in, sure, it was a bad movie, but that didn’t do any damage to Knotts’ career or what audiences thought about him.

Hollywood Walk of Fame

On the 19th of January, 2000, Don Knotts was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7083 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. The Hollywood Walk of Fame stretches across 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and 3 blocks of Vine Street, and consists of over 2,500 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars that are embedded into the sidewalks. Andy Griffith was also awarded a star so the two of them celebrated together, with Knotts saying that this was the best award he had received suring the course of his career, which is really saying something considering how much he already achieved in the entertainment business.