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Felix Silla, the actor who played beloved hairy Addams family member Cousin Itt, has died. He was 84. His “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” castmate, Gil Gerard, confirmed the news on Twitter.
The character was only in one of Charles Addams original comics, but his demeanor was created for the original black and white television series by producer David Levy, debuting in the 1965 first-season episode "Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family", and appearing in a total of 19 episodes, 17 of which featured Silla and Roger Arroyo, over the ...
John Franklin (born John Paul Salapatek; June 16, 1959) is an American actor, writer and former school teacher. He is best known for playing Isaac Chroner in Children of the Corn (1984), and Cousin Itt in The Addams Family (1991).
Cousin Itt is a fictional character in the Addams Family television and film series. He was developed specifically for the 1964 television series and is a regular supporting character in subsequent motion-picture, television and stage adaptations.
Prominently depicting Thing and Cousin Itt was an example of how the show deemphasized the cartoons' dark themes and emphasized the Addams's comedic strangeness. [9] The tone was set by series producer Nat Perrin, who was a close friend of Groucho Marx's and writer of several Marx Brothers films. Perrin created story ideas, directed one episode ...
The New Addams Family is the most disposable of all the property's iterations.Featuring a cast of relative unknowns, it also drags back John Astin (Gomez on the original '60s series), this time ...
Lurch is a 6 ft 9 in (2.05 m) tall, shambling, gloomy butler.In the original Addams Family television series, Lurch has a deep and resonant voice. Although fully capable of normal speech, Lurch often communicates via simple inarticulate moans, which, much like the dialogue of Cousin Itt, his employers have no trouble understanding.
Ted Cassidy was a frequent voice actor for Hanna-Barbera television productions at the time, and had previously voiced Lurch for New Scooby Doo Movies. The show also introduces the Addams Family's animal companions Ali the alligator, Ocho the octopus and Mr. V the vulture, who are often seen with their fellow pet Kitty Kat the lion.