Paul Lynde
Biography
Paul Edward Lynde (June 13, 1926 – January 10, 1982) was an American comedian, actor, and game-show panelist. Lynde was well known for his roles as Uncle Arthur on Bewitched, as the befuddled father Harry MacAfee in Bye Bye Birdie, and as a regular "center square" panelist on the game show The Hollywood Squares from 1968 to 1981. He also voiced animated characters for five Hanna-Barbera productions. Lynde was one of six children and the middle of four boys. His father was a local police officer and the sheriff of the Mount Vernon Jail for two years. Lynde got his inspiration to become an actor at the age of four or five after his mother took him to see the original silent film Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925). After graduating from Northwestern University, Lynde relocated to New York City where his first break came from being a stand-up comedian at the Number One Fifth Avenue nightclub. Then came an appearance on a Broadway show, "New Faces of 1952".
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Full filmography
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) as Self
- The Mike Douglas Show (1961) as Self
- The Mike Douglas Show (1961) as Self (archive footage)
- The Mike Douglas Show (1961) as Self - Co-Host
- Bewitched (1964) as Uncle Arthur
- Tony Awards (1956) as Self - Performer
- Love, American Style (1969)
- Love, American Style (1969) as Griswald
- Burke's Law (1963) as Arthur Clark
- Burke's Law (1963) as Guy Hawthorne Jr.
- Burke's Law (1963) as Dr. McCoy
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963) as Judge
- I Dream of Jeannie (1965) as Harry Huggins
- I Dream of Jeannie (1965) as Porter
- I Dream of Jeannie (1965) as Allen Kerr
- The Munsters (1964) as Dr. Edward Dudley
- The Carol Burnett Show (1967) as Self
- The Carol Burnett Show (1967) as Self - Guest / Various Characters
- The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) as Self
- The Flying Nun (1967) as Father Lundigan
- That Girl (1966)
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar (1957) as Self
- The Bob Hope Show (1950) as Self
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968) as Self