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Fred Gwynne

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Frederick Hubbard Gwynne (July 10, 1926July 2, 1993) was an American actor, artist and author. [1]

86 relations: A cappella, A Texas Trilogy, Adams House (Harvard College), Al Lewis (actor), American Shakespeare Theatre, Arsenic and Old Lace (play), Boris Karloff, Brattle Theatre, Broadway theatre, Car 54, Where Are You?, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Colorado, County Tyrone, Depression (mood), Disorganized Crime, Elizabeth Ashley, Episcopal Church (United States), Fatal Attraction, Finksburg, Maryland, Florida, Fly Club, Frankenstein's monster, G.I. Bill, George Gaynes, Groton School, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Harvard University, Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Helen Hayes, Herman Munster, Ironweed (film), J. Walter Thompson, Joe E. Ross, Joe Pesci, Kane and Abel (novel), Kate Reid, Keir Dullea, La Luna (1979 film), Lee J. Cobb, London, Maine accent, Marlon Brando, Maryland, Munster, Go Home!, My Cousin Vinny, Nat Hiken, New York (state), New York City, Northern Ireland, ..., Off Beat (1986 film), On the Waterfront, Our Town, Pet Sematary (1989 film), Phil Silvers, Punky Brewster, Shadows and Fog, Simon (1980 film), Sitcom, So Fine (film), South Carolina, Southern American English, Stephen King, Strabane, Stratford, Connecticut, Taneytown, Maryland, The $64,000 Question, The Boy Who Could Fly, The Cotton Club (film), The Harvard Krokodiloes, The Harvard Lampoon, The Munsters, The Munsters' Revenge, The Mysterious Stranger, The New York Times, The Phil Silvers Show, The Secret of My Success (1987 film), Tuxedo Park, New York, Typecasting (acting), United States, United States Navy, Water (1985 film), William Jay Gaynor, World War II, Yale Law School, 1992 in film. Expand index (36 more) »

A cappella

A cappella (Italian for "in the manner of the chapel") music is specifically group or solo singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way.

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A Texas Trilogy

A Texas Trilogy (also known as The Bradleyville Trilogy) is a set of three plays written by Preston Jones.

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Adams House (Harvard College)

Adams House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University, located between Harvard Square and the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Al Lewis (actor)

Al Lewis (born Albert Meister; April 30, 1923February 3, 2006) was an American character actor best known for his role as Count Dracula lookalike "Grandpa", opposite Fred Gwynne's and Yvonne De Carlo's characters on the CBS television series The Munsters from 1964 to 1966 and its subsequent film versions.

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American Shakespeare Theatre

The American Shakespeare Theatre was a theater company based in Stratford, Connecticut, United States.

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Arsenic and Old Lace (play)

Arsenic and Old Lace is a play written by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939.

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Boris Karloff

William Henry Pratt (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969), better known by his stage name Boris Karloff, was an English actor who was primarily known for his roles in horror films.

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Brattle Theatre

The Brattle Theatre is a repertory movie theater located at 40 Brattle Street (Brattle Hall) in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States of America.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Car 54, Where Are You?

Car 54, Where Are You? is an American sitcom that ran on NBC from 1961 to 1963, and was about two New York city police officers based in the fictional 53rd precinct in the Bronx.

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a play by Tennessee Williams.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater

CBS Radio Mystery Theater (a.k.a. Radio Mystery Theater and Mystery Theater, sometimes abbreviated as CBSRMT) is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was carried by the NPR satellite feed.

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Colorado

Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

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County Tyrone

County Tyrone is one of the six historic counties of Northern Ireland.

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Depression (mood)

Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behavior, tendencies, feelings, and sense of well-being.

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Disorganized Crime

Disorganized Crime is a 1989 American heist comedy film.

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Elizabeth Ashley

Elizabeth Ashley (born August 30, 1939) is an American actress of theatre, film, and television.

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Episcopal Church (United States)

The Episcopal Church is the United States-based member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

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Fatal Attraction

Fatal Attraction is a 1987 American psychological erotic thriller film directed by Adrian Lyne and written by James Dearden.

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Finksburg, Maryland

Finksburg is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, Maryland, United States.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Fly Club

The Fly Club is a final club, traditionally "punching" (inviting to stand for election) male undergraduates of Harvard College during their sophomore or junior year.

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Frankenstein's monster

Frankenstein's monster, often erroneously referred to as "Frankenstein", is a fictional character who first appeared in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.

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G.I. Bill

The Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944, also known as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s).

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George Gaynes

George Gaynes (born George Jongejans; May 3, 1917 – February 15, 2016) was an American singer, actor and voice artist.

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Groton School

Groton School is a private Episcopal college preparatory boarding school located in Groton, Massachusetts, United States.

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame, originally called Hallmark Television Playhouse, is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City-based greeting card company.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hasty Pudding Theatricals

The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, known informally simply as The Pudding, is a theatrical student society at Harvard University, known for its burlesque crossdressing musicals.

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Helen Hayes

Helen Hayes MacArthur (née Brown; October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993) was an American actress whose career spanned 80 years.

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Herman Munster

Herman Munster is a fictional character in the CBS sitcom The Munsters, originally played by Fred Gwynne.

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Ironweed (film)

Ironweed is a 1987 American drama film directed by Héctor Babenco.

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J. Walter Thompson

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Joe E. Ross

Joe E. Ross (born Joseph Roszawikz, March 15, 1914 – August 13, 1982) was an American actor known for his trademark "Ooh! Ooh!" exclamation, which he used in many of his roles.

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Joe Pesci

Joseph Frank Pesci (born February 9, 1943) is an American actor, comedian and singer.

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Kane and Abel (novel)

Kane and Abel is a 1979 novel by British author Jeffrey Archer.

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Kate Reid

Kate Reid, (née Daphne Katherine Reid; 4 November 1930 - 27 March 1993) was a Canadian stage, film, and television actress.

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Keir Dullea

Keir Dullea (born May 30, 1936) is an American actor best known for his portrayals of astronaut David Bowman in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and its 1984 sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact.

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La Luna (1979 film)

La Luna, also known as Luna, is a 1979 Italian film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Jill Clayburgh.

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Lee J. Cobb

Lee J. Cobb (born Leo Jacoby, December 8, 1911February 11, 1976) was an American actor.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Maine accent

The Maine accent is the local traditional pronunciation of Eastern New England English in parts of Maine, especially along the "Down East" and "Mid Coast" seaside regions.

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Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and film director.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east.

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Munster, Go Home!

Munster, Go Home! is a 1966 American film based on the hit 1960s family television sitcom The Munsters.

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My Cousin Vinny

My Cousin Vinny is a 1992 American comedy film written by Dale Launer and directed by Jonathan Lynn.

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Nat Hiken

Nathan "Nat" Hiken (June 23, 1914 – December 7, 1968) was an American radio and television writer, producer, and songwriter who rose to prominence in the 1950s.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region.

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Off Beat (1986 film)

Off Beat is a 1986 American comedy film about a young librarian who impersonates a police officer.

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On the Waterfront

On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film directed by Elia Kazan, and written by Budd Schulberg.

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Our Town

Our Town is a 1938 metatheatrical three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.

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Pet Sematary (1989 film)

Pet Sematary (sometimes referred to as Stephen King's Pet Sematary) is a 1989 American horror film adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same name.

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Phil Silvers

Phil Silvers (May 11, 1911 – November 1, 1985) was an American entertainer and comedic actor, known as "The King of Chutzpah".

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Punky Brewster

Punky Brewster is an American sitcom about a young girl (Soleil Moon Frye) being raised by a foster parent (George Gaynes).

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Shadows and Fog

Shadows and Fog is a 1991 American black-and-white comedy film directed by Woody Allen and based on his one-act play Death.

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Simon (1980 film)

Simon is a 1980 American comedy film.

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Sitcom

A sitcom, short for "situation comedy", is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode.

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So Fine (film)

So Fine is a 1981 comedy film written and directed by Andrew Bergman.

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South Carolina

South Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Southern American English

Southern American English or Southern U.S. English is a large collection of related American English dialects spoken throughout the Southern United States, though increasingly in more rural areas and primarily by white Americans.

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.

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Strabane

Strabane, historically spelt Straban, is a town in west Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

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Stratford, Connecticut

Stratford is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.

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Taneytown, Maryland

Taneytown is a town in Carroll County, Maryland, United States.

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The $64,000 Question

The $64,000 Question was an American game show broadcast from 1955 to 1958, which became embroiled in the 1950s quiz show scandals.

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The Boy Who Could Fly

The Boy Who Could Fly is a 1986 American fantasy comedy-drama film written and directed by Nick Castle.

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The Cotton Club (film)

The Cotton Club is a 1984 American crime-drama film centered on a Harlem jazz club of the 1930s, the Cotton Club.

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The Harvard Krokodiloes

The Harvard Krokodiloes are Harvard University's oldest a cappella singing group, founded in 1946.

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The Harvard Lampoon

The Harvard Lampoon is an undergraduate humor publication founded in 1876 by seven undergraduates at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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The Munsters

The Munsters is an American sitcom depicting the home life of a family of benign monsters starring Fred Gwynne as Frankenstein's monster-type head-of-the-household Herman Munster, Yvonne De Carlo as his vampire wife, Lily Munster, Al Lewis as Grandpa, the over-the-hill vampire who relishes in talking about the "good old days", and Beverly Owen (later replaced by Pat Priest) as their teenage niece whose all-American beauty made her the family outcast and Butch Patrick as their half-vampire, half-werewolf son Eddie Munster.

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The Munsters' Revenge

The Munsters' Revenge is a 1981 American made-for-television science fiction comedy film based on the 1964–1966 sitcom The Munsters which reunited original cast members Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo and Al Lewis.

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The Mysterious Stranger

The Mysterious Stranger is a novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Phil Silvers Show

The Phil Silvers Show, originally titled You'll Never Get Rich, is a sitcom which ran on CBS from 1955 to 1959.

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The Secret of My Success (1987 film)

The Secret of My Success (sometimes stylized as The Secret of My Succe$s) is a 1987 American comedy film produced and directed by Herbert Ross, and starring Michael J. Fox and Helen Slater.

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Tuxedo Park, New York

Tuxedo Park is a village in Orange County, New York, United States.

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Typecasting (acting)

In television, film, and theatre, typecasting is the process by which a particular actor becomes strongly identified with a specific character; one or more particular roles; or, characters having the same traits or coming from the same social or ethnic groups.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

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Water (1985 film)

Water is a 1985 British comedy film scripted by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, directed by Clement, and starring Michael Caine.

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William Jay Gaynor

William Jay Gaynor (February 2, 1849 – September 10, 1913) was an American politician from New York City, associated with the Tammany Hall political machine.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yale Law School

Yale Law School (often referred to as Yale Law or YLS) is the law school of Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

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1992 in film

The year 1992 in film involved many significant film releases.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Gwynne

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