Ted Cassidy
Theodore Crawford "Ted" Cassidy ( born July 31, 1932 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, † January 16, 1979 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American film actor.
Biography
Early life
Ted Cassidy grew, though born in Pittsburgh, in Philippi, the county seat of Barbour County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. At West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon ( Upshur County) Cassidy enjoyed his schooling, and played on the basketball team at school, and was a member of a fraternity. Showed early Cassidys rapid body growth; as an adult he was 205 centimeters tall.
Career
After college graduation Cassidy moved to the Stetson University in DeLand (Florida), where he studied linguistics and drama. Here he also met his future wife, Margaret Helen Jesse know, the older sister of the stage actor Dan Jesse, whom he married in 1956. They moved to Dallas ( Texas), where he first found work as a DJ at WFAA -AM, a radio station from Dallas. First experience in front of the camera collected Cassidy at WFAA, a local television station, where he was seen in afternoon programs for children as alien. Early 1960s, Cassidy also began working as a radio reporter, and was so November 22, 1963 one of the first journalists on the spot, to report on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Career
Cassidy's career in film and television began in 1960, as the voice of a Martian in the B-movie The Angry Red Planet. However, his breakthrough, he scored only four years later, when he took over the role of Lurch the butler in the television series The Addams Family; a character with the Cassidy itself is still mostly associated today. In 2004 he was nominated for this role posthumously for the TV Land Award in the category Best TV Butler. End of the 1960s he was also in three episodes of Star Trek in front of the camera, every time an alien. Although Cassidy also embodied human characters, including in an episode of Bonanza, but especially his extraterrestrial or even oriental rollers are the most movie fans a term, such as his appearance in the series I Dream of Jeannie. Overall, Cassidy stood in over 60 films and television series in front of the camera.
Late life and death
In 1972, Ted and Margaret Cassidy divorced after 16 years of marriage. The marriage produced two children, son Sean ( b. 1957 ) and daughter Cameron ( born 1960 ) had emerged. Both now work in the U.S. as lawyers. Last Cassidy led a life of communion with the actress Sandra Martínez. With increasing age, Cassidy had major health problems. In January 1979, he had to undergo open heart surgery, where he died at the age of 46 years.