Poor Pretty Eddie

Ted Cassidy as he appeared in the role of Keno in Poor Pretty Eddie. Cassidy is probably best remembered for his role as Lurch, the butler on the Addams Family TV show. His credits go way beyond that, however. He appeared on dozens of TV shows and in several other features.

Below is a Red And Black article (Nov. 7, 1973) written while Poor Pretty Eddie was filming in Athens. Dr. Roger Libby (the one-time radio talk show sexologist on 99X) invited Ted Cassidy as a guest speaker at his Family Relations class. Cassidy's topic, sexual freedom, was the subject of a 1973 movie called The Harrad Experiment, for which Cassidy had written a screenplay. The best paragraph is the final one.

Cassidy's next picture will combine both death and sex in a humorous way. He plays a sexually deviant Frankenstein in "Frankenstein's Family Jewels." "I usually shy away from the monster - Lurch type of role, but this is an entirely different thing - a new approach to the story where the Frankenstein monster roams the countryside, not in search of victims, but in search of broads," smiled Cassidy.

Whatever you say, Ted. By the way, you can scroll down to the bottom of the page if you'd care to see Cassidy (in character as Lurch) lip synching to his 1965 Capitol 45rpm record "Do The Lurch."