Most Emmy Awards won by a lead actor- same role, same series
- Who
- Don Knotts
- What
- 5 total number
- Where
- United States
- When
- 1967
Actor Don Knotts (USA) won the Emmy award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a supporting role, a record five times, as 'Barney Fife' in The Andy Griffith Show, from 1961-3 and 1966-7.
The show debuted in the US on October 3, 1960, running for 249 episodes. It was set in the fictitious town of Mayberry where widower Sheriff Andy and his son Opie lived.