Al Lewis

Celebrity

  • Birth Name: Albert Meister
  • Birth Place: n/a
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 04/30/1923, Taurus
  • Date of Death: 02/03/2006
  • Profession: Actor; radio host
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Al Lewis Fast Facts:
  • Decided at some point in his life to pretend he was 13 years older than he actually was, possibly to fit the part of elderly Grandpa Munster on the 1964-66 sitcom The Munsters.
  • Notoriously told stories about his life that could not be verified; in one tall tale, he claimed to have worked on a defense committee in the politically charged case of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti...at the age, it turned out, of 4.
  • His second wife once told the New York Times that "he always told me he was born in 1910," adding, "I don't think it matters at all."
  • Ran a successful Greenwich Village, NY, eatery.
  • Hosted a radio show on WBAI-FM in New York, NY.
  • Campaigned against the death penalty and certain drug laws in his home state of New York.
  • Ran as a Green Party candidate for governor of New York in 1998...wearing a pony tail.
  • Al Lewis Relationships:
  • Marge Domowitz - Ex-wife
  • Karen Lewis - Wife
  • Ted Lewis - Son
  • College:
  • Attended Oswego State Teachers College, Oswego, NY
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