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TV Land Quiz: Which actor played Eddie Munster?
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TVLand.com
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Hint #1: Rob Findlay did not play Eddie Munster.
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EDDIE MUNSTER
Edward Wolfgang Munster, son of Herman and Lily Munster, is a perfectly normal eight-year-old werewolf in a Little Lord Fauntleroy suit. Unfortunately, other kids sometimes call him nasty names because of his pointy ears, fangs, green skin and prominent widow's peak (inherited from his grandfather).
Eddie wrote (in blood) an award-winning composition entitled "My Parents, an Average American Family." But Herman and Lily have many reasons to be proud of their son Eddie. He has won several ribbons for track at school, he plays the trumpet and he has a special talent for opening tin cans with his ears. What they don't like, however, is Eddie's bad habit of chewing his nails—not the kind on your fingers, but the ones you find at a hardware store.
Eddie has his own little group of friends. There's his mechanical brother, Boris the Robot (created by Grandpa) and his favorite werewolf doll, Woof Woof. He also has several pets, including Elmer, a snake living under the garbage pail in the back yard, Spot, a fire-breathing dragon, a cat with the roar of a lion and an unnamed raven who cries "Nevermore" and "Tuesday Weld."
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Hint # 2: The actor in his teen idol years
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ANSWER:
Butch Patrick, TV's Eddie Munster, was born on August 2, 1953, in Los Angeles. He made his acting debut in 1961, at age eight, opposite Eddie Albert in the film The Two Bears. While living in Illinois with his grandmother, Butch was flown to Los Angeles to test for the role of Eddie Munster at CBS Studios. "I went in and an hour later I came out with the job," he recalls. "Rob Findlay wasn't even a gleam in his father's eye at this point." Although a cute little kid, he could play brat parts easily. Besides his two-year stint as a wolf boy with pointed ears in The Munsters, he was a regular on TV's The Real McCoys, General Hospital, and My Three Sons. In between, he appeared in numerous commercials and guest spots on many situation comedies throughout the sixties. In 1971, Butch starred in the Saturday morning kid's series about a strange world populated by living hats, Lidsville, opposite Charles Nelson Reilly. This show lasted until 1973 and zoomed Patrick into a teen-idol phase of his career, with his face gleaming on the covers of several teen magazines of the early 1970s. Around Halloween Patrick is usually booked solid for events that toast The Munsters and proudly welcome little Eddie, now all grown up. Butch has been in show business for over 35 years. His first acting job was a Kellogg's commercial in 1960. He was in 16 motion pictures working with such names as Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Sidney Potier, Walter Brennan, Audie Murphy, Wayne Newton, Bobby Darin, James Arness, Bill Bixby and Clint Eastwood. He has also done a lot of personal appearances around the country including talk shows such as Oprah Winfrey, Geraldo, Pat Sajak, Jane Whitney, Good Morning America, Solid Gold, The Today Show and MTV to name a few. Butch lives in Los Angeles and is constantly on the go doing personal appearances.
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