What Was Lurch's Name?

Ted Cassidy

Ted Cassidy

Early life

Cassidy was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, of Irish ancestry, and raised in Philippi, West Virginia. In his youth, he was academically gifted and attended third grade at age six. During his freshman year of high school, at age 11, he was on the football and basketball teams.

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, an actor who played the sinister‐looking, sepuchral‐voiced butler Lurch in the comedy television series “The Addams Family,” died Jan. 16 in Los Angeles of complications following open‐heart surgery for a nonmalignant tumor. He was 46 years old.

Is Lurch related to the Addams?

It was stated in Addams Family Reunion that Lurch is part-Addams. This plays into his being a creation similar to Frankenstein's monster as he was made from different body parts. The only definite body part that is from an Addams is his heart.

Who does Lurch look like?

The Lurch of the 1960s TV series was portrayed by actor Ted Cassidy, whose trademark subterranean voice lent to the character's dry sense of humor (via Addams Family Wiki). Decades later, Dutch actor Carel Struycken would come to fill Lurch's enormous shoes in the live-action films.