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The Addams Family is an American macabre / black comedy sitcom based on Charles Addams 's New Yorker cartoons. The 30-minute television series was responsible for taking the unnamed characters in the single-panel gag cartoons and giving them names, back stories, and a household setting. It was spearheaded by David Levy, who created and ...
Biography. Bristling with manic energy from every pore, actor and director John Astin specialized in oddball characters whose sense of joie de vivre rarely got in the way of reality, most notably Gomez Addams, his iconic role on "The Addams Family" (ABC, 1964-66). He had been a stage performer and minor character actor prior to being cast as ...
Michael O'Toole ( John Astin) is a roguish gambler and con artist running from a town after cheating at poker. His younger brother Timothy O'Toole (Steve Carlson) is a womanizer who romanced Bonnie Lou, the daughter of McClanahan, an angry father armed with a shotgun. The two brothers meet and find their way to a poor, sleepy Colorado mining ...
John Astin had long sessions with Addams and series producer David Levy, who gave him free rein in developing the character. Enlarging on Addams's description of Gomez as a Latin lover type, Astin suggested the eye-rolling, pencil moustache, and ardent devotion to Morticia.
Candy. (1968 film) Candy is a 1968 sex farce film directed by Christian Marquand from a screenplay by Buck Henry, based on the 1958 novel of the same title by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, itself based on Voltaire's 1759 novel Candide. The film satirizes pornographic stories through the adventures of its naive heroine, Candy, played by ...
John Astin. Not to be confused with John Ashton (actor). John Allen Astin (born March 30, 1930) is a retired American actor and director who has appeared in numerous stage, television and film roles, primarily in character roles. He is best known for starring in The Addams Family (1964–1966), as patriarch Gomez Addams, reprising the role in ...
John Astin Perkins. John Astin Perkins (1907-1999) was an interior designer and architect based in Dallas, Texas. He helped create the “Dallas look” though his prominent commissions and his “fearless use of color and highbrow taste.”. [1]
