Norris Goff

Radio comedian and actor best known as Abner Peabody on Lum and Abner, the long-running Arkansas-set radio comedy.

Norris Goff was one half of the beloved Lum and Abner comedy team, playing Abner Peabody and the scheming Squire Skimp. A childhood friend of Chester Lauck in Mena, Arkansas, Goff co-created the show and shared the microphone with Lauck for over two decades, voicing dozens of Pine Ridge characters.

1906Born