<P> The two were then offered a sitcom on NBC, and The Hartmans (at Home) showed promise, but audiences rejected the show, which often featured canned scripts and little opportunity for the couple to show off their physical and musical abilities . Paul and Grace returned to Broadway, where they spent three years in a number of variety shows and revues . In 1951 his was elected a member to the famed theater club, The Lambs . </P> <P> Hartman's wife Grace was diagnosed with cancer in 1952 . She died in 1955 . Television and Hollywood had once again risen to the top of the entertainment world, and the convenience of television shooting and a quick paycheck lured Paul out to Los Angeles once more . Hartman began appearing in the 1953 - 1954 ABC situation comedy, The Pride of the Family, as Albie Morrison, the father and head of the household . Fay Wray, best known for King Kong, played his wife, Catherine, and Natalie Wood and Robert Hyatt played his children, Ann and Junior Morrison, respectively . </P> <P> In 1957, Hartman returned one last time to Broadway, but then past fifty, he tired of the hectic stage life . He continued to play bit parts in movies and television throughout the rest of his life, most famously as handyman Emmett Clark on CBS's The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D. In a nod to his earlier life, he is seen doing a dance routine at Howard Sprague's party in the Andy Griffith episode "The Wedding", and in the Mayberry, RFD, episode "All for Charity", he can be seen doing a soft shoe routine with costar Ken Berry . In addition, he had small parts on Petticoat Junction, Love, American Style, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Hazel, Ben Casey, The Twilight Zone, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Our Man Higgins, and Family Affair . He was cast in the 1960 film, Inherit the Wind . In 1967, he appeared with Robert Morse in the film version of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying . </P> <P> Hartman died from a heart attack in Los Angeles at the age of sixty - nine . </P>

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