Fred Gwynne Overview:

Character actor, Fred Gwynne, was born Frederick Hubbard Gwynne on Jul 10, 1926 in New York City, NY. Gwynne died at the age of 67 on Jul 2, 1993 in Taneytown, MD .

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American comic actor, a Stateside equivalent of France's Fernandel, though alas too seldom in central roles. New York-born, Harvard-educated, the laconic Gwynne shot to fame in two television series, Car 54, Where Are You? And The Munsters, playing a Frankenstein's monster character in the latter. That took care of the 1960s and it was a decade later before he began to re-emerge in eye-catching character roles for the cinema, a medium which could have done with a greater share of his talent over the years, although he was also busy writing books for children. Died from pancreatic cancer.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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Fred Gwynne Quotes:

Herman: I want to go to the party and put on funny hats and be obnoxious and talk too loud and get stoned- uphold the American image abroad.


Lily Munster: Marilyn, if you should happen to meet any strange men on board, be sure and speak to them.
Herman: That's right, dear. Don't let your... unatractiveness make you self conscious.


Herman: "Car 54, Where Are You?" - when finally discovering the secret of Munster Hall.


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In his most popular post-"The Munsters" (1964) role, that of "Judge Chamberlain Haller" in My Cousin Vinny (1992), one of the sight gags is that the good judge looms a full foot taller than his antagonist, Vinny, as played by Joe Pesci.

Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 199-200. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387.

Worked as a salesman at Seal Lock Burial Vault, Forest Hills, New York, in the early 1950s. (The McCloskey family later changed this Woodhaven Blvd. business into a florist shop, still operating in 2007.).

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