Guess 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.