Zaydeh Munster, Resting With Ghouls

granpa munsterGuess today’s obit day: Al Lewis, best known as Grandpa Munster, died Friday. He could have been 95, he could’ve been 83 — no one’s really telling.

He’ll always be recognized as Eddie’s wacky zaydeh on the ’60s TV show The Munsters, but Lewis had way more of a life than that: He was the child of Jewish immigrants, a civil rights activist, had a PhD in child psychology and ran as the Green Party candidate for governor of New York in 1988.

He was a real mensch, even if he did have 137 wives.

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