John Astin is best known for starring in The Addams Family, as patriarch Gomez Addams, reprising the role in the television film Halloween with the New Addams Family and the animated series The Addams Family.
21 Facts About John Astin
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John Astin starred in the TV film Evil Roy Slade.
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John Astin was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for his directorial debut, the comedic short Prelude.
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John Astin was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Margaret Linnie and Dr Allen Varley John Astin, who was the director of the National Bureau of Standards.
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John Astin started his performing career in theater, making his first Broadway appearance as an understudy in Major Barbara, in 1954 and did voice-over work for commercials.
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In 1961, John Astin appeared in the final episode of the ABC police drama The Asphalt Jungle.
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John Astin played Harry Dickens to Ingels's Arch Fenster, as two trouble-prone carpenters.
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John Astin is perhaps best known for The Addams Family, a popular sitcom that ran on ABC from 1964 to 1966, based on cartoons created by Charles Addams.
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John Astin starred as Gomez Addams, the head of the macabre family.
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John Astin later reprised the role of Gomez in the 1977 made-for-television film Halloween with the New Addams Family and voiced the role of Gomez in the animated series The Addams Family from 1992 to 1993.
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John Astin made several appearances in the first two seasons of the popular mystery series Murder, She Wrote, as scheming real estate developer Harry Pierce, who ends up as the murderer in his last episode.
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John Astin guest starred on numerous television series, including appearances on Duckman, Homeboys in Outer Space, Jack Palance's ABC circus drama The Greatest Show on Earth, and a 1967 episode of Gunsmoke as Festus Haggen's cousin Henry.
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John Astin received an Academy Award nomination for Prelude, a short film that he wrote, produced, and directed.
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John Astin was nominated for an Ace Award for his work on Tales from the Crypt, and received an Emmy Award nomination for the cartoon voice of Gomez on ABC-TV's The Addams Family.
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John Astin voiced the character Bull Gator on the animated series Taz-Mania.
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John Astin served for four years on the board of directors of the Writers Guild of America, and has been active in community affairs in Los Angeles and Santa Monica.
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John Astin has continued to work in acting, appearing in a string of Killer Tomatoes films as Professor Gangreen and as Professor Wickwire in The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
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John Astin has toured the one-man play Edgar Allan Poe: Once Upon a Midnight, written by Paul Day Clemens and Ron Magid.
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John Astin is a member of the board of directors of the Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts in Columbia, Maryland.
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Until his retirement in 2021, Astin was director of the Theater Arts and Studies Department and Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University, his alma mater, which offers an undergraduate minor program.
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John Astin married Valerie Ann Sandobal in 1989 and they live in Baltimore, Maryland.