Al Lewis Biography

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