John Astin

John Allen Astin (born March 30, 1930) is an American actor who has appeared in numerous films and television series, as well as a television director and voice artist. He is best known for starring as Gomez Addams in The Addams Family, reprising the role in the television film Halloween with the New Addams Family, and the animated series The Addams Family. Notable film roles include in West Side Story, That Touch of Mink, Move Over, Darling, Freaky Friday, National Lampoon's European Vacation, Teen Wolf Too and The Frighteners. His second wife was actress Patty Duke and he is the adoptive father of Duke's son, actor Sean Astin.
On Nickelodeon, he provided the voices of Bangaboo in The Wild Thornberrys, and Dave Bishop in As Told by Ginger.
Category:1930s births
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