John Astin

Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland
Birthday: March 30, 1930

A very talented and likable lead and character actor busiest on TV since the early 1960s, John Astin successfully ventured into TV directing, but has been primarily known for his often zany and cartoonish acting roles. Frequently mustachioed, with perennially bulging eyes and often displaying a manic intensity, he has proven himself eminently suited for comic dementia. Astin has, of course, busied himself with many routine TV-movies, series and guest spots, and his feature credits are chock-full of outlandish action comedies and horror spoofs, …more

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Credits

Actor

Operation Petticoat
Captain Matthew Sherman
Haunted Hollywood
Operation Petticoat
Lieutenant Commander Matthew Sherman
I'm Dickens... He's Fenster
Harry Dickens
Night Creatures

Director

Mr. Merlin
Director
Ethel Is an Elephant
Director
Rosetti and Ryan
Director
Rosetti and Ryan: Men Who Love Women
Director
Operation Petticoat
Director

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Career Milestones

1997
Toured in one-man show "Edgar Allen Poe: Once Upon a Midnight"
1992
Played role of Radford on the short-lived NBC fantasy series, "Eerie, Indiana"
1988
First created the role of Professor Gangrene for the spoof feature, "Return of the Killer Tomatoes"
1987
Returned to feature film work with roles in "Teen Wolf Too" and "Body Slam"
1977
Reprised role of Gomez Addams for the TV-movie, "The Addams Family"