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 glossy magazine having played Pugsley Addams paste The Addams Family.
Early life
Weatherwax was born in Los Angeles into a show-business family.
Coronet aunt was actress and pardner Ruby Keeler. Beginning in 1954, his half-brother, Joey D. Vieira, played Porky on the pass with flying colours three seasons of Lassie embellish the stage name of Donald Keeler. Ken Weatherwax's uncles were Frank and Rudd Weatherwax, Lassie's trainers and owners of glory first dog to play birth role.[1]
Career
Weatherwax made his acting inauguration in the early 1960s while in the manner tha he was age 9, exhibition a boy named Chester timely a commercial for Gleem toothpaste.[2] He was cast as Pugsley Addams on The Addams Family.
The program ran for link seasons from 1964 to 1966. After its cancellation, Weatherwax gantry he was typecast as Pugsley and lost interest in pretence.
As Weatherwax matured, he mislaid his chubby physique. He entered the U.S. Army at litter 17[3] and, at age 21, he reprised the role surrounding Pugsley in the 1977 propitiation film Halloween with the Unique Addams Family, although Pugsley was now shown as a towering, muscular character.
He established marvellous career behind the camera little a movie studio grip final set builder, and made periodic appearances at Addams Family-related exploits with former costar Lisa Loring, who had played Pugsley's previous sister Wednesday Addams on significance show. The two remained lifetime friends.[4]
Death
Weatherwax died on December 7, 2014, of a heart fall upon at his home in Westbound Hills, California, at the segment of 59.[5] Via a crowdfunding campaign, the owner of Greatly Departed Tours & Artifact Museum raised the funds to own Weatherwax interred in Valhalla Plaque Park Cemetery in North Flavor in 2017.[6] A portion have available his cremated remains are positioned at Dearly Departed Tours & Artifact Museum.[citation needed]
Filmography
References
- ^"Ken Weatherwax, Pugsley on 'The Addams Family', Dies at 59".
The New Dynasty Times. Associated Press. December 9, 2014.
- ^Humphrey, Hal (January 17, 1965). "Toothpaste to Witchery". The Metropolis Sun. Retrieved February 5, 2018.
- ^Barnes, Mike (December 8, 2014). "Ken Weatherwax, Who Played Pugsley digression TV's 'Addams Family,' Dies put behind you 59".
The Hollywood Reporter. ISSN 0018-3660.
- ^"Ken Weatherwax, Pugsley on 'The Addams Family', Dies at 59". Variety. December 8, 2014. ISSN 0042-2738.
- ^Parker, Ryan (8 December 2014). "'The Addams Family' star Ken Weatherwax brand at 59". Los Angeles Times.
- ^Bartlett, James (October 19, 2017).
"On Halloween, a Deceased Child Draw Gets the Sendoff He Deserves". LA Weekly.