You Rang?
Happy birthday, Ted Cassidy. He died over 30 years ago, but his legend lives on. I believe even to this day, when kids mock a schoolmate who's too tall, they'll use the term "Lurch."
Cassidy, at 6' 9", was generally cast for his size and look. His best known role, of course, was faithful butler Lurch on The Addams Family. But I can also recall him appeariing in I Dream Of Jeannie, Lost In Space and The Six Million Dollar Man (where he played Sasquatch).
The funniest thing he was ever associated with was years after his death. TV show host/new age musician John Tesh appeared on Conan O'Brien's show. Conan said they had a clip of Tesh in concert, and they cut to Lurch at the harpsichord.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:18 AM
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As I recall, he played Big Foot in one season and Andre the Giant played him in another (A two-parter cliffhanger, I recall). We need the previously-posted youtube of Steve Austin's exposition to understand it all. (BTW, Lee Majors actually sang background love songs in the Six Million Dollar Man episodes dealing with the Bionic Woman- not relevant to the immediate post but a factoid that needs to be shared nonetheless).
Also while I think youngsters still use "Lurch" today- half of them I believe are confusing him with Hermann Munster.
I would think these days they call tall kids Avatar.
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