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  • 'Grandpa Munster‘ Al Lewis Dies at 95

    02/04/2006 11:43:23 AM PST · by lunarbicep · 140 replies · 4,581+ views
    Washington Post ^ | February 4, 2006
    NEW YORK -- Al Lewis, the cigar-chomping patriarch of "The Munsters" whose work as a basketball scout, restaurateur and political candidate never eclipsed his role as Grandpa from the television sitcom, died after years of failing health. He was 95. Lewis, with his wife at his bedside, passed away Friday night, said Bernard White, program director at WBAI-FM, where the actor hosted a weekly radio program. White made the announcement on the air during the Saturday slot where Lewis usually appeared. "To say that we will miss his generous, cantankerous, engaging spirit is a profound understatement," White said. Lewis, sporting...
  • 'Grandpa Munster' lucky to be alive

    09/16/2003 11:36:11 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 23 replies · 341+ views
    Newsday ^ | 9/16/03 | Ellis Henican
    "Look at this," Grandpa Al Lewis was saying Monday, pulling back the sheet on his hospital bed. "All that's left of my leg." I made myself look. Damned if the doctors hadn't amputated Grandpa's right leg, just below the knee! They also whacked the five toes off his left foot. And they did it while Grandpa was deep in a month-long coma at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital, near-fatal complications from what was supposed to be a routine heart procedure. Now, one of America's most beloved TV actors is at Coler-Goldwater Specialty Hospital on Roosevelt Island, shaking off the coma, building...