Most Recent Role: Santa Claus on Higglytown Heroes
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Birthday: 3-30-1930
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Birthday: 3-30-1930
John Astin was born to a father who had a knack for numbers (his father was the Director of the National Bureau of Standards). Astin thought he would follow in Allen Astin's footsteps. He majored in mathmatics at Washington and Jefferson College. When he transferred to John Hopkins, he was still a math major. Then, he appeared in a school production and he was hooked on acting. He switched...
Most Recent Appearance
'Tis the Season to Be Ducky / Bingo Bongos
Saturday 1 December 2007 on Disney
'Tis the Season to Be Ducky: The Higglytown kids want to hang their stockings up, but need to build a chimney first with the aid of the bricklayer. Bingo Bongos: Fran plays her bongo drums at a concert.
John dislikes laugh tracks on sit-coms. He finds them to be "a really stupid convention."
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When John first auditioned for The Addams Family, producers intended him to play Lurch--the butler.
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John was given he choice of first names for his Addams family character, Gomez or Repelli. He chose Gomez.
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John has toured the country playing Edgar Allan Poe in the stage production, Once Upon Midnight.
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John is 5 foot 11 inches (180cm).
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John (On his absence from the "Addams Family" DVD commentary): I wish I'd been able to comment on the shows, but my teaching schedules were tough to work around, so I was left off. The shows speak for themselves, although I may do my own personal book on the series some day.
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John: My father was shocked when I told him I was going to become an actor. It really disappointed him, I know. But he was wonderful about it. He and my mother were faithful in their attendance at my performances in the theater. They would drive many miles. It was very encouraging.
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John: There is something good about the character of Gomez. I wouldn't trade the association with him for anything or any role that I might have missed.
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John (On Rod Serling): He was a wonderful guy. Very creative. Very dedicated to the work. He never got tired of trying to work out a problem. I never saw him sluff anything off. He really wanted get things right. I liked that. He never seemed to fatigue in the area of trying to improve something. Very often, I think, there is a low threshold for fatigue in television and people give up and say, it’s alright this way. Rod really wanted to work until something was right and he felt good about it.
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John (On the creator of his most famous part)): I was a great fan of the Charles Addams cartoons.
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Other Appearances
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|---|---|
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Attack of The Killer Tomatoes
voice of Dr. Putrid T. Gangreen |
I'm Dickens--He's Fenster
Harry Dickens |
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Mary
Ed LaSalle |
McMillan and Wife
Sykes |
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Operation Petticoat
Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Sherman (1977-1978) |
Taz-Mania
voice of Bull Gator |
| Recurring Role | |
|---|---|
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Duckman
Terry Duke Tetzloff |
Eerie, Indiana
Radford |
| Insight |
Murder, She Wrote
Fritz Randall |
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Night Court
Buddy |
Password Plus
Guest |
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|---|---|
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77 Sunset Strip
Dress Rehearsal Martin Gorsch |
87th Precinct
King's Ransom Cassidy |
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Aladdin
The Animal Kingdom Sydney |
Arnie
The Only Way to Go salesman |
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As Told By Ginger
Blizzard Conditions Dave Bishop |
As Told By Ginger
Piece of My Heart Dave Bishop |
| Director | |
|---|---|
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CHiPs
Meet the New Guy |
CHiPs
Brat Patrol |
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CHiPs
Rock Devil Rock |
Getting There
Pilot |
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Holmes and Yoyo
The Hostages |
Holmes and Yoyo
Dead Duck |
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