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'Andy Griffith Show' Child Actor Remembers Co-Star and Decades-Long Friend Dennis Rush: 'Mayberry Has Lost a Great Citizen'

Rush, who played a friend of Ron Howard's Opie Taylor on "The Andy Griffith Show," died at 74 after a leukemia diagnosis

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May 15, 2026

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'Andy Griffith Show' Child Actor Remembers Co-Star and Decades-Long Friend Dennis Rush: 'Mayberry Has Lost a Great Citizen'
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Rush, who played a friend of Ron Howard's Opie Taylor on "The Andy Griffith Show," died at 74 after a leukemia diagnosis
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