Should have received at least 3d billing.

Really? I never heard that one!
Are you sure it's him? His bio says nothing about him being an author.

Was also a children's book author.
I remember I read one from the library my mom got for me.

Yes. That was mentioned above!

He was also Muldoon in Car 54 where are you?

Hard to believe you never saw him as "Herman Munster".
Fred Gwynne
was
Herman Munster; the two are inseparable.
I often wonder if he loved that role or later regretted it.
PS: You do realize that you can edit your posts, right?
You don't have to add a new post after the mistaken post.

*watched

I absolutely adore him. Hadn't wanted the Muensters as a kid (we were more of an Addam's Family type of family) so I never really saw him as Hermann
But, everything else he was in, just phenomenal. I adore him.

Nobody could play a stone-cold, no-nonsense southern judge like Fred Gwynne.
Exactly!

Nobody could play a stone-cold, no-nonsense southern judge like Fred Gwynne.

I agree with what you say, definitely.
What I was saying is that it's a shame he is only known for that "fluff" role.
When as an actor he was so much more than simply that.
But, no one out there really knows it.
Everyone just thinks of him as Herman Munster, period. Nothing else.

It's really a shame that Fred Gwynne's name has become synonymous with the "Herman Munster" character.
I don't think it's a shame at all. Fred Gwynne's wonderful talent as an actor and his genuine, warm and kind persona are what made Herman Munster so lovable and what keeps that character so beloved even to this day.

He played a thug in "On The Waterfront".
You just gave me one more reason to want to see that movie.

He played a thug in "On The Waterfront".

That episode and I remember a few others as well, the one where they went skiing, one where butters was walking down a road and came to a point where the road split in 2 different directions and asked what way lead to South Park.

I remember that; it was when the kids tried to convince everyone that Butters was dead. They tossed a dead pig off a tall building, and Butters' dad went and buried it, thinking it would come back to life. Then Butters came home and knocked on the door, and his parents refused to open it. Kind of like 'The Monkey's Paw.'

• What are you gonna do, when the world catches on?

They've had a character based on his from pet semataray a few times on South Park.

Yes, that was it.
Great actor he was!

I also remember him in some Stephen King film.
That was
Pet Sematary
. His performance was the best of any actor in the movie, I thought.

• HOW kin I be so brainless, when I is so smart?

He's done quite a bit.
I also remember him in some Stephen King film.
Here is his Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Gwynne
.
In any event,
before
The Munsters
, Gwynne was already "famous" in the TV sitcom
Car 54, Where Are You?
.

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Thanks.
It's really a shame that Fred Gwynne's name has become synonymous with the "Herman Munster" character.
He was a great actor. And he really was so much more than just that one ("fluff") role.

I agree!