Editing Tim Conway (section)

===Don Knotts===
When Conway was starting his career in Hollywood, so was [[Don Knotts]]. Both men were regulars on ''[[The Steve Allen Show]]'', though at different times. They didn't have the chance to work together until [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney Studios]] paired the two men on the Apple Dumpling Gang series of films, and their comedy clicked; Knotts's boisterous, [[Barney Fife]]-style bungling both contrasted and meshed with Conway's quieter form of physical comedy. The first film starred [[Bill Bixby]] and [[Susan Clark]] in 1975 and was called ''[[The Apple Dumpling Gang (film)|The Apple Dumpling Gang]]''. In it, Bixby is tricked into taking care of a trio of orphans as a pair of lovable holdup men named Amos Tucker (Conway) and Theodore Ogelvie (Knotts) attempts to steal a gold nugget the children find. The film was a commercial success and a sequel, starring the pair, was made in 1979, called ''[[The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again]]''. The sequel did not have the other cast members but was hugely profitable for Disney.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=appledumplinggangridesagain.htm |title=The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979) |website=Box Office Mojo |date=January 1, 1982 |access-date=August 25, 2018}}</ref>

Conway wrote two other films for the pair to star in together starting with ''[[The Prize Fighter]]'' in 1979 and ''[[The Private Eyes (1980 film)|The Private Eyes]]'' in 1980. Both were independently produced and the highest grossing independent films of those years. They had a cameo in the ''[[Cannonball Run II]]'' film together and in later years voiced the characters of Hermie and Wormie the [[caterpillars]] in numerous shows from [[Max Lucado]]'s Christian children's series, "[[Hermie and Friends]]".<ref name="Dawidziak1">{{cite news|url=https://www.cleveland.com/tv/2019/05/tim-conway-time-line-comedy-stars-life-and-career.html|first=Mark|last=Dawidziak|title=Tim Conway time line: comedy star's life and career|work=[[The Plain Dealer#cleveland.com|Cleveland.com]]|agency=[[Associated Press]]|date=May 14, 2019|access-date=June 25, 2019}}</ref>