Ted Cassidy
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Theodore Crawford Cassidy was an American actor. He tended to play unusual characters in offbeat or science-fiction works, such as Star Trek and I Dream of Jeannie, and he played Lurch on The Addams F
Cassidy as Tarzan in Storybook Squares (1969)
Ted Cassidy on air at WCOA Pensacola January 1959
Cassidy (right) in The Addams Family with Jackie Coogan in 1966
Lurch (The Addams Family)
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Lurch is a fictional character created by American cartoonist Charles Addams as a butler to the Addams Family. In the original television series, Lurch was played by Ted Cassidy.
Ted Cassidy
…an American actor. He tended to play unusual characters in offbeat or science-fiction works, such as Star Trek and I Dream of Jeannie, and he played Lurch on The Addams Family TV series of the mid-1960s. He also narrated the intro sequence for the 1977 live-action The Incredible Hulk TV series and provided…
Ted Cassidy as Lurch
Carel Struycken as Lurch in The Addams Family film (1991).