What Became of the Cast of “The Addams Family”?
“The Addams Family” was a comedy about an odd and creepy family that ran on ABC from 1964 until 1966. The show was the network’s answer to “The Munsters”, which was a hit on the rival CBS network. Of the eight main characters that were featured in “The Addams Family”, four still survive. The actors that portrayed Gomez , Pugsley, and Wednesday Addams are still with us, as well as the little fellow that played the small and hairy Cousin Itt, but the people that brought Morticia Addams, Grandmama Addams, Uncle Fester, and the butler Lurch have all passed way. John Astin is 77 now, still best known for being Gomez, the head of the spooky Addams clan. He was a math whiz at John Hopkins University, but a love of theatre pulled him away from his fondness for numbers. Astin got a small part in 1961’s “West Side Story”, and then landed the role of Gomez, a cigar smoking eccentric man who went wild when his wife spoke French. Astin worked in television and films after the series was cancelled,
