Ted Cassidy
{{short description|American actor (1932–1979)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Ted Cassidy
| image = Ted Cassidy Cheeta Storybook Squares 1969.JPG
| image_size =
| caption = Cassidy as Tarzan with Cheeta in Storybook Squares (1969)
| birth_name = Theodore Crawford Cassidy
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1932|07|31}}
| birth_place = Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1979|01|16|1932|07|31}}
| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1959–1979
| height = {{convert|6|ft|8|in|cm|0|abbr=on}}
| alma_mater = Stetson University
| spouse = {{marriage|Margaret Helen Jesse|June 14, 1956|1975|end=divorced}}
| children = 2
| website =
}}
Theodore Crawford Cassidy (July 31, 1932 – January 16, 1979) was an American actor. He tended to play unusual characters in offbeat or science-fiction works, such as Star Trek and I Dream of Jeannie, and he played Lurch on The Addams Family TV series of the mid-1960s.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=M9IhAAAAIBAJ&pg=4066%2C892148 |newspaper=Daytona Beach Morning Journal |location=Florida |title=From Stetson gym to TV stage |date=October 4, 1964 |page=12, All Florida}} He also narrated the intro sequence for the 1977 live-action The Incredible Hulk TV series and provided the growls and roars for the Hulk for the first two seasons before his death, with actor Charles Napier providing the title character's vocals for the remainder of the series.{{cite web|title=Ted Cassidy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160121223701/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/11663/Ted-Cassidy/biography|archive-date=January 21, 2016|url-status=dead|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|author=Hal Erickson|author-link=Hal Erickson (author)|date=2016|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/11663/Ted-Cassidy/biography}}{{cite web|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/24/archives/ted-cassidy-lurch-in-tv-series.html|title=Ted Cassidy, Lurch in TV Series|date=January 24, 1979|access-date=May 10, 2018|archive-date=May 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180511013428/https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/24/archives/ted-cassidy-lurch-in-tv-series.html|url-status=live}}
Early life
Cassidy was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Elwood Lewis Cassidy and Emily Cassidy (nee Crawford), of Irish ancestry, and raised in Philippi, West Virginia.{{cite news |title='Lurch' Will Crown Strawberry Queen |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-charleston-daily-mail-ted-cassidy-1/170837154/ |work=The Charleston Daily Mail |date=April 19, 1966 |location=Charleston, WV |page=8 |access-date=April 22, 2025 |via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}{{cite news |title=Cass Special to Huff, Puff at 25th Strawberry Festival |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sunday-gazette-mail-ted-cassidy-1932-19/170836992/ |work=Sunday Gazette-Mail |date=June 5, 1966 |location=Charleston, WV |page=36 |access-date=April 22, 2025 |via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}} In his youth, he was academically gifted and attended third grade at age six. During his freshman year of high school, at age 11, he was on the football and basketball teams.{{cite web |title=Ted Cassidy Biography – Television Actor (1932–1979) |url=http://www.biography.com/people/ted-cassidy-248965#awesm=~oIomAhUEu1h6pk |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808065224/http://www.biography.com/people/ted-cassidy-248965#awesm=~oIomAhUEu1h6pk |archive-date=August 8, 2014 |access-date=June 27, 2014 |work=biography.com}}
After graduating from high school, Cassidy attended West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, where he was a member of the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity. He transferred to Stetson University in DeLand, Florida,{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yowfAAAAIBAJ&pg=1871%2C3113787 |newspaper=The Volusian |location=Florida |last=Plaisted |first=Ed |title=Ex-coach remembers Stetson days when 'Lurch' played basketball |date=March 22, 1995 |page=1B |access-date=May 13, 2016 |archive-date=September 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928133637/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yowfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ftMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1871%2C3113787 |url-status=live }} where he played college basketball for the Hatters and was active in the student government.{{cite web|title=Stetson University|url=http://archives.stetson.edu:8888/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2Fyearbook&CISOPTR=8420&REC=2&CISOBOX=Cassidy|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130409234945/http://archives.stetson.edu:8888/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/yearbook&CISOPTR=8420&REC=2&CISOBOX=Cassidy|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 9, 2013|work=1955 Hatter (Yearbook)}}
Career
Cassidy graduated from Stetson University with a BA degree. He began his broadcast career at WCOA in Pensacola during the summer of 1958 and through the fall of 1959. File:WCOA Pensacola January 1959 20230917 0004 small.jpgHe then moved on to work as a DJ on WFAA in Dallas.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/the-foote-files-remembering-ted-cassidy/ |title=The Foote Files: Remembering Ted Cassidy |date=May 19, 2017 |publisher=CBS Texas |access-date=2023-05-28}} He was an accomplished musician and moonlighted playing an organ for patrons of a Luby's Cafeteria in Dallas' Lochwood Shopping Center.{{cite web |title=Lurch (aka Ted Cassidy) |url=http://phorum.dallashistory.org/read.php?2,69188,69200 |website=phorum.dallashistory.org |access-date=24 May 2023 |language=en |date=2010 }} He "was right in the middle of the excitement" on the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZJYuAAAAIBAJ&pg=7027%2C2047793 |newspaper=Bryan Times |location=Ohio |agency=King Features Syndicate |last=Heimer |first=Mel |title='Lurch' moves on, 'Injun Joe' soon |date=August 16, 1967 |page=5 |access-date=May 13, 2016 |archive-date=September 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928133719/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZJYuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IUgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7027%2C2047793 |url-status=live }} and was among the first to interview eyewitnesses W. E. Newman Jr. and Gayle Newman.{{cite video|title=JFK's Assassination (11/22/63) (WFAA-Radio; Dallas)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J7H1gdg8Ug|via=YouTube | at=0:43:05}}
=Television=
File:Fester lurch 1966.JPG in 1966]]
Cassidy's height gave him an advantage in auditioning for unusual character roles. His best-known role is Lurch on The Addams Family, in which he feigned playing the harpsichord (although he was in fact an accomplished organist).According to the Addams Family, Season 1, Volume 1 DVD of the original TV series, music composer Vic Mizzy states that Lurch is playing on a dead keyboard, and though Cassidy was an accomplished organist, Mizzy played all the parts. This is shown in the Snap Snap special feature. With a separate contract, he also played the character named Thing,{{Cite magazine |last=Sauer |first=Patrick J. |date=2019-10-11 |title=The Cultural History of 'The Addams Family' |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/cultural-history-addams-family-180973315/ |access-date=2024-09-28 |magazine=Smithsonian |language=en}} though associate producer Jack Voglin took on the role in scenes involving both characters. Though the character of Lurch was originally intended to be mute, Cassidy's ad-libbed "You rang?" in response to the butler call was an immediate hit. It became his signature line, and he was given more lines. Several episodes were written to feature Lurch.{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/news/legends-and-legacies/ted-cassidy-you-rang/1886/|title=Ted Cassidy, You Rang?|work=Legacy.com|date=January 16, 2014 |access-date=August 24, 2015|archive-date=September 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904043731/http://www.legacy.com/news/legends-and-legacies/ted-cassidy-you-rang/1886/|url-status=live}}
Cassidy reprised the role of Lurch in later appearances. In the Batman episode "The Penguin's Nest" (1966), he appears during the heroes' familiar climbing scene up the side of a building, as a tenant who is playing the Addams Family theme on a harpsichord prior to sticking his head out of the window and speaking to Batman and Robin. He voiced Lurch in an episode of The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972), and in the 1973 animated series adaptation of The Addams Family. He again reprised Lurch in the TV film Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977).
According to Thomas "Duke " Miller, a TV/movie/celebrity expert, Cassidy also had a small role opposite George Peppard in one episode of the TV movie series Banacek. Cassidy played a worker in an auto scrapyard who attempted to kill Banacek because the investigator traced him as part of the plot to steal a rare and valuable book.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} In addition to The Addams Family, Cassidy found steady work in a variety of other television shows. He had a prominent role on NBC's The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as Injun Joe, the enemy of Tom Sawyer and Huck. In the 1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode "The Napoleon's Tomb Affair", Cassidy played a henchman, Edgar, who kidnaps, tortures, and repeatedly tries to kill Napoleon and Illya.
Cassidy also provided the voices of the more aggressive version of Balok in the Star Trek episode "The Corbomite Maneuver" and the Gorn in the episode "Arena", and played the part of the android Ruk in the episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?". Cassidy did more work with Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry in the early 1970s, playing Isaiah in the postapocalyptic drama pilots Genesis II and Planet Earth. In the Lost in Space episode "The Thief from Outer Space", he played the Slave to the alien Thief (Malachi Throne), who threatens the Robinsons.
In The Beverly Hillbillies episode "The Dahlia Feud" from 1967, he played Mr. Ted, a large, muscular gardener who plants dahlias for Mrs. Drysdale. In 1968, Cassidy appeared on Mannix in the episode "To Kill a Writer" as Felipe Montoya, on Daniel Boone in "The Scrimshaw Ivory Chart" as a pirate named Gentle Sam, and in two episodes of I Dream of Jeannie as the master of Jeannie's devious sister in the episode "Genie, Genie, Who's Got the Genie?", and Jeannie's cousin in the episode "Please Don't Feed the Astronauts".
In the two-part The Six Million Dollar Man episode "The Return of Bigfoot" (1976), Cassidy provided the body and vocal effects of Bigfoot (the role was originally played by professional wrestler André the Giant in a previous two-parter). Cassidy reprised the role in the 1977 episode "Bigfoot V".
Cassidy also starred in Bonanza's "Decision in Los Robles" in 1970.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fernsehserien.de/bonanza/folgen/11x24-entscheidung-in-los-robles-26128|title=Bonanza Staffel 11, Folge 24: Entscheidung in Los Robles|date=November 7, 2019 |via=www.fernsehserien.de}}
=Other film and TV work=
Concurrent with his appearances on The Addams Family, Cassidy began doing character voices on a recurring basis for the Hanna-Barbera Studios, culminating in the role of Frankenstein Jr., in Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles series, and even reprising Lurch on several occasions for Hanna-Barbera productions (most notably for the Addams Family animated series in 1973–74). He was the voice of Meteor Man in Birdman and the Galaxy Trio, as well as the hero in the Chuck Menville pixillated short film Blaze Glory, in which his already-deep voice was enhanced with reverb echo to give the character an exaggerated super-hero sound. Cassidy also voiced Ben Grimm ("The Thing") in The New Fantastic Four. Cassidy went on to perform the roars and growls for Godzilla in the 1979 cartoon series that Hanna-Barbera co-produced with Toho, and was also the voice of Montaro in the Jana of the Jungle segments that accompanied Godzilla during its first network run. His voice was the basis for the sinister voice of Black Manta, as well as Brainiac and several others on Super Friends. Cassidy was the original voice of Moltar and Metallus on Space Ghost from 1966 to 1968. Cassidy's final role was as King Thun of the Lion Men in the television animated feature film Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All. That particular role was originally recorded shortly before Cassidy's death in 1979, until the decision was made to use the footage for a television series, The New Adventures of Flash Gordon. As such, Cassidy's death necessitated his role being recast for the series with Allan Melvin. After the series' conclusion, the original feature film and soundtrack were reassembled using Cassidy's performance and broadcast in prime time in 1982. In live-action productions for the TV series The Incredible Hulk, he provided narration of the title sequence, and the Hulk's growls and roars. In deleted scenes from the original Battlestar Galactica TV pilot movie, "Saga of a Star World", Cassidy can be heard providing temporary voice tracks of the Cylon Imperious Leader, before actor Patrick Macnee was contracted to voice the character.{{cite video | type=DVD | title=Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Epic Series }}
Other film work includes Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Mackenna's Gold (1969), The Limit (1972), Banacek (1972),Charcoal Black (1972), The Slams (1973), Thunder County (1974), Poor Pretty Eddie (1975), Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976), The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977) and Goin' Coconuts (1978). Alongside Michael Werner, he co-wrote the screenplay of 1973's The Harrad Experiment, in which he made a brief appearance. During that time, he also worked with Noel Marshall, the executive producer of Harrad Experiment, on the adventure-comedy film Roar (released two years after his death).{{cite web|url=http://kqek.com/mobile/?p=11643|title=Film: Roar (1981)|last=Hasan|first=Mark R.|work=KQEK.com|date=June 18, 2015|access-date=January 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190128030645/http://kqek.com/mobile/?p=11643|archive-date=January 28, 2019|url-status=live}}
In 1965, he released a single on Capitol Records with "The Lurch", written by Gary S. Paxton, and "Wesley", written by Cliffie Stone and Scott Turner.{{cite web|title=Ted Cassidy: The Lurch/Wesley|date=September 6, 1965 |publisher=Discogs|url=https://www.discogs.com/Ted-Cassidy-The-Lurch-Wesley/release/1853174|access-date=May 10, 2018|archive-date=May 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180511013312/https://www.discogs.com/Ted-Cassidy-The-Lurch-Wesley/release/1853174|url-status=live}} He introduced the dance and performed the song "The Lurch" on September 11, 1965, on Shivaree! and performed it again on Halloween of the same year on Shindig!{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/dfw/news/the-foote-files-remembering-ted-cassidy/|publisher=CBS|title=The Foote Files: Remembering Ted Cassidy|author=Foote, Ken|date=May 19, 2017|access-date=May 10, 2018|archive-date=May 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180511013353/http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2017/05/19/the-foote-files-remembering-ted-cassidy/|url-status=live}}
Height
Contrary to urban legend, Ted Cassidy did not suffer from acromegaly, an endocrine disorder in which there is an overproduction of growth hormone from the pituitary gland that causes excessive bone growth in certain parts of the body. This was debunked by his son Sean Cassidy on the YouTube interview "Son of Lurch".{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} At 6 foot 8 inches, Ted Cassidy was one inch taller than his son Sean who is 6 foot 7 inches tall.{{cite news |last1=Bauso |first1=Matías Bauso |title="¿Llamó usted?": La historia de Largo, el actor que sufrió bullying, sólo hizo monstruos y tuvo una muerte joven |url=https://www.infobae.com/historias/2022/07/31/llamo-usted-la-historia-de-largo-el-actor-que-sufrio-bullying-solo-hizo-monstruos-y-tuvo-una-muerte-joven/ |access-date=December 27, 2023 |issue=July 31, 2022 |publisher=InfoBAE |date=July 31, 2022}}
Death
Cassidy underwent surgery at St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles to have a benign tumor removed from his heart. Complications arose several days later while he was recuperating at home. He was readmitted to the same hospital, where he died on January 16, 1979, at the age of 46. He was cremated and his ashes were buried in the backyard of his home in Woodland Hills.{{cite news |newspaper=The Hour |location=Norwalk, Connecticut |title=Ted Cassidy's death almost unreported |agency=UPI |date=January 24, 1979 |page=6 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uKs0AAAAIBAJ&pg=5751%2C4125057 |access-date=May 13, 2016 |archive-date=September 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928133638/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uKs0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=Am4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=5751%2C4125057 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rBBPAAAAIBAJ&pg=3856%2C1264401 |newspaper=Toledo Blade |location=Ohio |agency=Associated Press |title=Deaths elsewhere: Ted Cassidy |date=January 24, 1979 |page=12 |access-date=May 13, 2016 |archive-date=September 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928133639/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rBBPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ggIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3856%2C1264401 |url-status=live }}
Filmography
| class="wikitable" | ||
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1959
| Martian | Voice, uncredited | ||
| 1964–1966
| Lurch | 64 episodes | ||
| 1966
| Tullio | Episode: "The Montori Device Affair" | ||
| 1966
| Slave | Episode: "The Thief from Outer Space" | ||
| 1966
| Batman | Lurch | Episode: "The Penguin's Nest" | ||
| 1966
|rowspan=3| Star Trek | Ruk | S1:E7, "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" | |
| 1966 | Voice of Balok Puppet | S1:E10, "The Corbomite Maneuver" |
| 1967
| Gorn | S1:E18, "Arena" | ||
| 1966–1967
| Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles | Frankenstein Jr. | Voice, 18 episodes | ||
| 1967
| Maxie | Episode: "Portrait of Krump" | ||
| 1967
| Teddy Larch | Episode: "Wild Bull" | ||
| 1967
| The Giant | Voice, TV movie | ||
| 1967
| Laredo | Monte | Episode: "The Small Chance Ghost" | ||
| 1967
| Mr. Ted | Episode: "The Dahlia Feud" | ||
| 1967
| Bojo | Episode: "Stanley Joins the Circus" | ||
| 1967
| Spy Shadow | Voice, one episode | ||
| 1967
| Meteor Man | Voice, twenty episodes | ||
| 1967
| Insight | The Jury | Episode: "Fat Hands and a Diamond Ring" | ||
| 1967
| Galactus | Voice, episode: "Galactus" | ||
| 1968
| Daniel Boone (1964 TV series) | Sam "Gentle Sam" | Episode: "The Scrimshaw Ivory Chart" | ||
| 1968
| Hamid / Habib | Two episodes | ||
| 1968
| Tarzan | Sampson | Episode: "Jungle Ransom" | ||
| 1968
| Mannix | Felipe Montoya | Episode: "To Kill a Writer" | ||
| 1968–1969
| The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Injun Joe / Morpho / Monster | Voice, 20 episodes | ||
| 1969
| Hachita | | ||
| 1969
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | | ||
| 1970
| Bonanza | Garth | Episode: "Decision at Los Robles" | ||
| 1971–1976
| Officer Big Mac | Voice, five episodes | ||
| 1972
| Lurch | Voice, Episode: "Wednesday Is Missing" | ||
| 1972
| The Limit | Donnie "Big Donnie" | | ||
| 1972
| Ironside | The Wrestler | Episode: "Who'll Cry for My Baby" | ||
| 1972
| Striker | | ||
| 1973
| Banacek | Jerry Crawford | Episode: "Ten Thousand Dollars a Page" | ||
| 1973
| Isiah | TV movie | ||
| 1973
| Diner Patron | Uncredited | ||
| 1973
| Lurch | Voice, sixteen episodes | ||
| 1973
| Glover | | ||
| 1974
| Isiah | TV movie | ||
| 1974
| The Great Lester Boggs | | | ||
| 1974
| Thunder County | Cabrini | | ||
| 1975
| | | ||
| 1975
| Keno | | ||
| 1976
| Harry and Walter Go to New York | Leary | | ||
| 1976
| Bigfoot | Episode: "The Return of Bigfoot: Part 2" | ||
| 1976–1977
| Bigfoot | Two episodes | ||
| 1976–1979
| Phobeg | Voice, 36 episodes | ||
| 1977
| The Great Balloon Race | | | ||
| 1977
| Benny and Barney: Las Vegas Undercover | Jake Tuttle | TV movie | ||
| 1977
| The Last Remake of Beau Geste | Blindman | | ||
| 1977
| Agent Kronos | Episode: "The Time Traveler" | ||
| 1977
| The All-New Super Friends Hour | Crag | Two episodes | ||
| 1977
| Halloween with the New Addams Family | Lurch | TV movie | ||
| 1977–1979
| Voice of Incredible Hulk / The Narrator | 76 episodes | ||
| 1977–1980
| Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels | Creature / Bruno / Additional voices | Voice, 39 episodes | ||
| 1978
| The Flintstones: Little Big League | Police Officer | Voice, TV movie | ||
| 1978
| | Episode: "Sugar to the Rescue" | ||
| 1978
| Canja | Episode: "Scavenger Hunt" | ||
| 1978
| Bruno | Episode: "Help Wanted" | ||
| 1978
| Demon Balzaroth | Voice, uncredited, TV movie | ||
| 1978
| Additional voices | Voice, 16 episodes | ||
| 1978
| Mickey | | ||
| 1978
| Fangface | Additional voices | Voice, Two episodes | ||
| 1978
| Additional voices | Voice, seven episodes | ||
| 1978
| Greatest Heroes of the Bible | Goliath | Episode: "David and Goliath" | ||
| 1978
| Montaro | Voice, 13 episodes | ||
| 1978
| Voice, 13 episodes | ||
| 1978
| Challenge of the Superfriends | Black Manta / Brainiac / Diamond Exchange Man / Barlock / Gorilla Guard #1 / British Soldier | Voice, 16 episodes | ||
| 1978
| Cowboysan | Baddie | Short film | ||
| 1978–1979
| Godzilla | Godzilla | Voice, 26 episodes | ||
| 1979
| The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone | Frankenstone | Voice, TV movie, posthumous release | ||
| 1979
| The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show | Additional voices | Voice, posthumous release | ||
| 1981
| Roar | | Additional script material, posthumous release | ||
| 1982
| Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All | Voice, TV movie, final film role, posthumous release |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0144252}}
- [https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/30560%7C144653/Ted-Cassidy#overview Ted Cassidy] at Turner Classic Movies
- {{Memory Alpha|Ted Cassidy}}
- [http://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/article/ted-cassidy-you-rang Legacy.com] – Ted Cassidy
- {{discogs artist|Ted Cassidy}}
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