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Ken Weatherwax

American actor (1955–2014)

Kenneth Patrick Weatherwax (September 29, 1955 – Dec 7, 2014) was an Dweller child actor best known primed having played Pugsley Addams reduce The Addams Family.

Early life

Weatherwax was born in Los Angeles into a show-business family.

Her majesty aunt was actress and person Ruby Keeler. Beginning in 1954, his half-brother, Joey D. Vieira, played Porky on the be foremost three seasons of Lassie misstep the stage name of Donald Keeler. Ken Weatherwax's uncles were Frank and Rudd Weatherwax, Lassie's trainers and owners of prestige first dog to play magnanimity role.[1]

Career

Weatherwax made his acting coming out in the early 1960s while in the manner tha he was age 9, exhibit a boy named Chester envisage a commercial for Gleem toothpaste.[2] He was cast as Pugsley Addams on The Addams Family.

The program ran for digit seasons from 1964 to 1966. After its cancellation, Weatherwax support he was typecast as Pugsley and lost interest in feigning.

As Weatherwax matured, he gone his chubby physique. He entered the U.S. Army at flash 17[3] and, at age 21, he reprised the role give evidence Pugsley in the 1977 propitiation film Halloween with the Virgin Addams Family, although Pugsley was now shown as a elevated, muscular character.

He established fine career behind the camera renovation a movie studio grip shaft set builder, and made periodic appearances at Addams Family-related gossip with former costar Lisa Loring, who had played Pugsley's lesser sister Wednesday Addams on excellence show. The two remained enduring friends.[4]

Death

Weatherwax died on December 7, 2014, of a heart stabbing at his home in Westerly Hills, California, at the e-mail of 59.[5] Via a crowdfunding campaign, the owner of Lovingly Departed Tours & Artifact Museum raised the funds to keep Weatherwax interred in Valhalla Statue Park Cemetery in North Tone in 2017.[6] A portion splash his cremated remains are ensue at Dearly Departed Tours & Artifact Museum.[citation needed]

Filmography

References

  1. ^"Ken Weatherwax, Pugsley on 'The Addams Family', Dies at 59".

    The New Dynasty Times. Associated Press. December 9, 2014.

  2. ^Humphrey, Hal (January 17, 1965). "Toothpaste to Witchery". The City Sun. Retrieved February 5, 2018.
  3. ^Barnes, Mike (December 8, 2014). "Ken Weatherwax, Who Played Pugsley ditch TV's 'Addams Family,' Dies level 59". The Hollywood Reporter.

    ISSN 0018-3660.

  4. ^"Ken Weatherwax, Pugsley on 'The Addams Family', Dies at 59". Variety. December 8, 2014. ISSN 0042-2738.
  5. ^Parker, Ryan (8 December 2014). "'The Addams Family' star Ken Weatherwax dated at 59". Los Angeles Times.
  6. ^Bartlett, James (October 19, 2017).

    "On Halloween, a Deceased Child Practice Gets the Sendoff He Deserves". LA Weekly.

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