Frederick Hubbard " Fred " Gwynne ( July 10, 1926July 2, 1993 ) was an American actor.

Gwynne was born in New York City, a son of Frederick Walker Gwynne, a partner in the securities firm Gwynne Brothers, and his wife Dorothy Ficken.

Gwynne attended the Groton School, and graduated from Harvard University, where he was affiliated with Adams House, in 1951.

Phil Silvers was impressed by Gwynne from his work in Mrs. McThing and sought him for his television show.

Gwynne was 6 ft 5 in tall, an attribute that contributed to his being cast as Herman Munster, a goofy parody of Frankenstein's monster, in the sitcom The Munsters.

Gwynne was known for his sense of humor and retained fond recollections of Herman, saying in later life, "...

Gwynne was survived by his second wife, Deborah, and four children.

Parts of the movie Disorganized Crime 1989 starring Fred Gwynne of the Munsters, was filmed downtown on Main Street.

Actor Fred Gwynne, star of TV's The Munsters, died in Taneytown on July 2, 1993, after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

The second owner of Broadhollow was Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt II, who was owner of the Belmont and Pimlico racetracks.

That engine was replaced by a 250 horse power oil engine in late 1925, supplied by Blackstone and Company, which drove a Gwynne rotary pump.

Finally, after another song from Nichols or Bentley, there was a situation comedy sketch worked up from the clichés of a literary or cinematic genre ; for example, later TIFH programmes included a sketch about restoration England, with Charles II, Nell Gwynne and the Puritan keeper of the Privy Purse (" anything TV can do, we can do later "); or a spoof spy story set on an international sleeper from London to Paris ("… as I moved through the train I gazed at a handsome film star, slumbering in his compartment, and a thought struck me — whether you're great or whether you're humble, when you sleep upright you dribble ").

In 1884 the phenomenon of an opera by a French composer being produced in London previously to being heard in Paris was repeated in Nell Gwynne, which was modestly successful, but failed when produced in Paris as La Princesse Colombine.

Allen had been convicted of the murder of John Alan West ; Allen's accomplice, Gwynne Owen Evans, was hanged at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, at the same time by Harry Allen.

Gwynne Owen Evans was hanged by the executioner Harry Allen at Manchester's Strangeways Prison at 8: 00 am on 13 August 1964.

Arriving in Canada, he journeyed into the backwoods, where he was affiliated to a tribe of Native Americans but had to flee because his life was in danger, as later his character Bagenal Daly did in his novel The Knight of Gwynne.

In the Knight of Gwynne, a story of the Union ( 1847 ), Con Cregan ( 1840 ), Roland Cashel ( 1850 ) and Maurice Tiernay ( 1852 ) we still have traces of his old manner ; but he was beginning to lose his original joy in composition.

In 1989 it was made into a four-part BBC television series directed by Christopher Menaul and starring Warren Clarke and Haydn Gwynne.

During the committal hearing for the suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams in February 1957, Shawcross was seen dining with the defendant's lover, Roland Gwynne, at the White Hart Hotel in Lewes.

There was talk of the government falling, Rawlinson writing to H. A. Gwynne ( 14 February 1918 ) that the best solution was to give Robertson a powerful role at Versailles and have Wilson as a weak CIGS in London “ where he will not be able to do much mischief-especially if Squiff replaced LG as PM ”.

Jason Gwynne is a journalist, most widely known for his 2004 documentary on the British National Party ( BNP ).

Alice " Kiki " Gwynne, later more commonly known as Kiki Preston, was born in 1898, in Hempstead, Nassau County, Long Island, New York, the daughter of Edward Erskine Gwynne, Sr. ( 1869 – 10 May 1904 ) and his wife, the former Helen Steele (?

* 1964 – Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the Murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom.

* In 1977 for television, directed by Harvey Hart and starring Karl Malden, Ricardo Montalbán, Fritz Weaver, Fred Gwynne and Neville Brand.

To support himself, Gwynne worked as a copywriter for J. Walter Thompson, resigning in 1952 upon being cast in his first Broadway role, a gangster in a comedy called Mrs. McThing, which starred Helen Hayes.

In addition to his acting career, Gwynne sang professionally, painted, and wrote and illustrated children's books, including It's Easy to See Why, A Chocolate Moose for Dinner, The King Who Rained, Best In Show, Pondlarker, The Battle of the Frogs and Mice, and A Little Pigeon Toad.

The process of transforming civilians into military personnel has been described by military historian Gwynne Dyer as a form of conditioning in which inductees are encouraged to partially submerge their individuality for the good of their unit.

* Andrew Gwynne: Labour Member of Parliament for Denton and Reddish

He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company for the Christmas 2006 season playing Mr Page in Merry Wives: the Musical ( a version of The Merry Wives of Windsor ) opposite Judi Dench, Simon Callow and Haydn Gwynne.

England and in the United Kingdom: on 13 August 1964, Peter Anthony Allen, at Walton Prison in Liverpool, and Gwynne Owen Evans, at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, were executed for the murder of John Alan West on 7 April that year.

* 1964, 13 August: Peter Anthony Allen, at Walton Prison in Liverpool, and Gwynne Owen Evans, at Strangeways Prison in Manchester for the murder of John Alan West, the last people executed in Britain.

The best-known building is Chelsea Royal Hospital for old soldiers, set up by Charles II ( supposedly on the suggestion of Nell Gwynne ), and opened in 1694.

He retired at the 2005 general election, and the seat was held for Labour by Andrew Gwynne.

Nell Gwynne, another of Charles ' mistresses, called her " Squintabella ", and when mistaken for her, replied, " Pray good people be civil, I am the Protestant whore.

During the committal hearing for the suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams in January 1957, Goddard was seen dining with the defendant's probable gay lover, Sir Roland Gwynne ( Mayor of Eastbourne from 1929 to 1931 ), and ex-Attorney-General Hartley Shawcross at an hotel in Lewes.

Prescott, unaware that Whitfield and Brantley are one and the same person, suspects Carlton is a spy for corporate raider Donald Davenport ( Fred Gwynne ).

He also briefed H. A. Gwynne against the proposals, writing that “ the little man ” was “ all out for ( his ) blood ” and “ to see that the fine British Army is not placed at the mercy of irresponsible people – & some of them foreigners at that ”.

Tilton's singing voice was used for other actresses including Barbara Stanwyck ( Ball of Fire ), Martha O ' Driscoll, and Anne Gwynne.

" Stella Gwynne was not eager for her daughter's early return to England, after qualifying for her Sorbonne diploma, and sent her from Paris to Munich in 1931 to study German.

But main credit for the compilation was given to the paper's editor, Gwynne.

A talented vocalist, Gwynne sang in a Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-television production, The Littlest Angel ( 1969 ), and went on to perform in a variety of roles on stage and screen.

Gwynne also had roles in the movies Simon, On the Waterfront, So Fine, Disorganized Crime, The Cotton Club, Captains Courageous, The Secret of My Success, Water, Ironweed, Fatal Attraction and The Boy Who Could Fly.

* 1998, starring Harry Anderson and Swoosie Kurtz in the Elwood and Veta roles along with Fred Gwynne, Richard Mulligan and Madeline Kahn.

Returning to England, she played roles such as Nell Gwynne in The First Actress by Christopher St. John ( Christabel Marshall ; 1911 ).

In 1900 she created the role of Nell Gwynne in Anthony Hope's English Nell ( based on Simon Dale ) at the Prince of Wales's Theatre in London, followed at the same theatre in 1901 by the title roles in Peg Woffington by Charles Reade and Becky Sharp, an adaptation of Vanity Fair, by Robert Hichens and her husband.