Al Lewis Dies

[filkertom]

Al Lewis, best known for playing Grandpa on The Munsters, has passed away. I'm seeing reports of his age from 83 to 95.

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[devospice.livejournal.com]

No! Dammit. I was still hoping to meet him at Chiller or some such show.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

I think 95 is closer to reality.

The cool thing about him was he kicked ass to the very end.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Local newsradio says 95.

The man was quite a character; he's been part of NYC's local color as long as I can remember. Besides the Munsters, he scouted high school basketball players for colleges as a freelance scout for 30 or 40 years, ran for governor of NY, and of course, was a well-known restauranteur here (Grandpa's is a good but not top-level Italian place) since at least the 1980s.

Requiescat.

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

Wow, Al and Betty on the same day. Bummer :(

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Word. Love 'em both, but I had to physically resist the subject lines "From the Sublime..." and "... To the Ridiculous".

[sylverwolfe.livejournal.com]

*keens*
he ran for office in new york when i was younger. if i'd been 18, i'd have voted for him, too. that was the first year i had ever even heard of the green party, politically sheltered me.
man, now i gotta find the munsters on dvd...

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

Poor Al. He never did manage to "escape the cape".

[ravelwoods.livejournal.com]

Sometimes he would give his date of birth as 1910, sometimes as 1923. Sometimes his name would be Albert, sometimes Alexander. Since no one has yet to find any official records, we just can't know for sure.

Interestingly, when he ran for governor of New York, he tried to have himself listed as Grandpa Al Lewis, arguing that was the name most people would recognize.