There are certain things we know for certain about actor Al Lewis: he was born (though when is a major bone of contention), he starred in the classic TV series Car 54, Where Are You? and, more notably ...

Commentator Andrei Codrescu offers his memory of actor Al Lewis, who has died at age 82. Lewis played Grandpa on the 1960s TV comedy The Munsters. Codrescu says that Lewis gained fame in the ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Al Lewis, the cigar-chomping patriarch of "The Munsters" whose work as a basketball scout, restaurateur and political candidate never eclipsed his role as Grandpa from the television ...

Munsters'' -- has died at the age of 95. In Dracula get-up, he became a pop-culture icon as the irascible father-in-law of Herman Munster, played on the T-V show by Fred Gwynne. He and Gwynne had ...

"Grandpa" Al Lewis is best remembered for his sitcom roles in Car 54, Where Are You? and The Munsters, though the vaudeville veteran had a number of different careers in addition to television and ...

Like a lot of people my age, I always felt a special affinity for Grandpa Munster. I liked his whole Transylvania-cum-Borscht-Belt schtick. I liked knowing that his list of preferred aliases included ...

In this obituary on actor Al Lewis, The Associated Press erroneously reported his age as 95. Lewis was 82, his son, Ted Lewis, said. NEW YORK -- Al Lewis, the cigar-chomping patriarch of "The Munsters ...