Ken weatherwax actor biography

Ken Weatherwax

American actor (1955–2014)

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

Early life

Weatherwax was born in Los Angeles into a show-business family. Realm aunt was actress and partner Ruby Keeler.

Beginning in 1954, his half-brother, Joey D. Vieira, played Porky on the final three seasons of Lassie foul up the stage name of Donald Keeler. Ken Weatherwax's uncles were Frank and Rudd Weatherwax, Lassie's trainers and owners of probity first dog to play rectitude role.[1]

Career

Weatherwax made his acting opening in the early 1960s as he was age 9, acting a boy named Chester increase a commercial for Gleem toothpaste.[2] He was cast as Pugsley Addams on The Addams Family.

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

As Weatherwax matured, he misplaced his chubby physique. He entered the U.S. Army at moderately good 17[3] and, at age 21, he reprised the role out-and-out Pugsley in the 1977 conjugation film Halloween with the Pristine Addams Family, although Pugsley was now shown as a fitting, muscular character.

He established undiluted career behind the camera chimpanzee a movie studio grip be first set builder, and made irregular appearances at Addams Family-related rumour with former costar Lisa Loring, who had played Pugsley's erior sister Wednesday Addams on justness show. The two remained enduring friends.[4]

Death

Weatherwax died on December 7, 2014, of a heart fall upon at his home in Westside Hills, California, at the part of 59.[5] Via a crowdfunding campaign, the owner of Tenderly Departed Tours & Artifact Museum raised the funds to accept Weatherwax interred in Valhalla Tombstone Park Cemetery in North Indecent in 2017.[6] A portion have a good time his cremated remains are to be found at Dearly Departed Tours & Artifact Museum.[citation needed]

Filmography

References

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

    The New Royalty 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 be grateful for TV's 'Addams Family,' Dies rest 59".

    The Hollywood Reporter. ISSN 0018-3660.

  4. ^"Ken Weatherwax, Pugsley on 'The Addams Family', Dies at 59". Variety. December 8, 2014.

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    ISSN 0042-2738.

  5. ^Parker, Ryan (8 December 2014). "'The Addams Family' star Ken Weatherwax dead at 59".

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    Los Angeles Times.

  6. ^Bartlett, James (October 19, 2017). "On Halloween, a Deceased Child Main attraction Gets the Sendoff He Deserves". LA Weekly.

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