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Secrets You Didn’t Know About Fred Gwynne: Inside ‘The Munsters’ Actor’s Fascinating Life
Fred Gwynne, best known for his role of Herman Munster on The Munsters, lived a fascinating life. Closer shares secrets about his acting career and more.
The Munster family patriarch looked incredibly tall in costume while starring in the sitcom as Frankenstein’s monster from 1964 to 1966. “We get in, Fred takes off, and instead of turning around, he continues out the front gate of Universal Studios and leaves the property, driving up to the Hollywood Bowl. He was already 6-foot-5-and-a-half inches and they put him in these buildup shoes in which he could hardly walk,” Geoffrey Mark, writer and codirector of the 2002 documentary Behind the Fame: The Munsters/Addams Family, once told Closer.
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