R.I.P. Grandpa Munster

[zotjen]

Al Lewis has died at 95.

 

[PinkFloyd]

 

[mrarroyo]

I just saw that, however I thought he was 83. Nontheless he will be missed the Munster's were hilarious.

 

[PSmith08]

Sad, but he did a lot in his life.

 

[braillediver]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060204/..._tv/obit_lewis

It’s sad but thinking of his character Grandpa makes me smile and laugh still.

Like when he grew hair on the bowling ball or would be blown through the trap door and land in the rafters.

Plus his lab in the basement was the coolest place- I sure wanted one like that.


I love this quote since it’s what Grandpa would have said.

Unlike some television stars, Lewis never complained about getting typecast and made appearances in character for decades.
"Why would I mind?" he asked in a 1997 interview. "It pays my mortgage."


Mitch

 

[elrod-tom]

It used to crack me up all the times that the old trap door would burp with the force of an explosion from his lab. I really loved that show, and he and the also departed Fred Gwynne were just great together...sort of a ghoulish Lucy and Ethel.

He was a pretty amazing guy...apparently he was also a basketball scout. Even before his turn with the Musters, he was apparently well known enough in THAT role that he knew Red Auerbach.

Goodbye Grandpa.

 

[LFF]

Very sad news. RIP.

 

[stevesurf]

It is a sad thing that some of us are losing our childhood entertainers...Grandpa, Herman, Maxwell Smart; if nothing else it should teach us that life is too short...to short to be arguing about money or lack of it, who should get the kids this weekend, why the neighbors are cooking something that smells awful, etc. etc.

Al Lewis was a fun-loving man - he even would appear on Howard Stern's crazy Channel 9 show in the 1990's, used to do a good deal of public appearances and just seemed to love life. I wish more people were as approachable as he.