Fred Gwynne.

what are you I've been asked to come out here and uh entertain you with his Lantern jaw his towering height and his booming voice he will be forever known as the monster with the heart of a child but off-screen Fred Gwynne endured personal tragedy and professional setbacks to emerge as an accomplished artist a respected author and one of the finest character actors of his generation we learn as we go his face was very stoic yet there was a lot of emotion and what was going on behind it I'd like to speak to you in my chambers fred was not that Hollywood anglo-saxon handsome so acting was a way of see I'm as good as they love me out there I got a ride in the palm of my hand as a TV dad he was the best she could ask for I'm doing this for Eddie it was like this very small shy person in this huge presence of a man my father was very very funny a talented artist a generous man with a very very loud voice fragran was just a great big teddy bear New York City in the 1920s the Great War was over the economy was thriving and the bluebloods of Manhattan's Cafe Society were kicking up their heels at speakeasies around the town it was in this atmosphere of parties and privilege that Frederick Hubbard gwyn was born on July 10th 1926 his father Frederick was a successful stockbroker whose gregarious and whimsical personality delighted his young son Fred's mother Dorothy was a strong-willed and artistic woman who had created the popular comic strip sonny jim but once her son was born fred became the center of her universe she had tried to have children before him and I think two or three had died so he was sort of a miracle baby for her and she you know just showered him with praise and love and tension doted on by his mother Fred enjoyed all the benefits that wealth allowed as he came of age surrounded by America's aristocracy I remember Fred telling me that in the wintertime his dad used to have a house down in Palm Beach in Florida right next to Joe Kennedy's house so they moved in those kinds of circles but in 1935 the eight year olds idyllic existence ended when his father unexpectedly died after a routine sinus operation shattered by the loss of the man he adored the lonely youngster often withdrew into an imaginary world he created in his sketches a talent he shared with his mother he was always drawing and I'm sure that his mother loved it and she was a cartoonist herself and so she would encourage him to do that you couldn't keep a pen out of his hands Fred's mother also nurtured him through his awkward years at school when a sudden growth spurt set the adolescent apart from his peers can you imagine a kid who was that tall and gangly and you think you'd be ostracized more than embraced and I think his mother just made him feel so comfortable with himself that he was just very well liked in 1939 13-year old Fred entered Groton an elite and highly competitive East Coast prep school Fred became an outgoing and popular student he sang in the school choir and he excelled in his art classes studying under the noted portrait artist RS Merryman as the young students passion for art grew he studied everything from the impressionist to the 19th century political cartoons of honoré daumier he also joined the drama program which allowed him to express his whimsical personality but throughout Gwynn's high school years a dark cloud hung over the young men at Groton in 1941 America entered the Second World War and patriotic teens everywhere were eager to fight for their country when Fred graduated in 1944 he immediately enlisted in the United States Navy for two years the 6-foot five-inch seaman served aboard a sub J sir in the Pacific as a radio operator he almost went insane the Morse code constantly in your ear going on and keeping up he wept before the captain he said because he wanted to get out of it he'd do anything so he wept and somebody said aren't you ashamed of yourself but he cut out a radio duty after two years at sea Wynn was ready for an intellectual challenge which he found at Harvard University it was here that the undergraduate discovered an outlet for his artistic talent and wicked wit on the staff of the Harvard Lampoon joining forces with fellow classmates John Updike and George Plimpton by 1950 Fred's gift for satire had catapulted him to the presidency of the notorious humor magazine win also lends his towering presence to the university's Hasty Pudding Society where his outrageous antics became legendary around campus the Hasty Pudding is a theater group where there are no women to the men dresses women and we can imagine and he just had a ball he loved to make people laugh queen basked in the attention he received from an audience and the campus clown was anxious to test his skills outside the Ivy League fred began performing at the nearby Brattle theatre company where he quickly became enchanted with a colorful and eccentric world of the stage romance also cast a spell over the Harvard student when he met 22 year old foxy Renard at a friend's wedding and I think my father's love at first sight mother was very beautiful and I'm not sure went the other way but Fred was captivated by the free-spirited young woman and pursued her ardently well we liked each other I hear shy is very funny I mean I appreciate humor a lot after a year-long courtship the couple tied the knot in a small ceremony on June 30th 1952 the newlyweds became popular host to a large circle of friends who were charmed by Fred's acerbic sense of humor there's an introvert but he might trick people into thinking he was an extrovert he would be on for a lot of people you know he play a role and they think that they were very popular with him ha ha till they leave he say oh Christ what bores after a successful run as bottom in the Brattle theater production of A Midsummer Night's Dream the 25 year old performer felt emboldened enough to try his luck in the Big Apple New York in the early 1950s was the artistic hub of the country the new medium of television was thriving and Broadway was producing some of its biggest hits Fred and foxy moved into a modest apartment and Fred hit the pavement looking for work but initially he met some resistance people said he was too tall or too thin or you know had a lantern jar or something but then obviously other people saw that he had Talent people were just swept up by that the novice actor quickly landed his first Broadway show with a supporting role in mrs. mcfinn starring the illustrious Helen Hayes the following year Fred was overjoyed at the birth of his first son Kieran but the new father's elation quickly turned to heartache when Kieran suffered a severe brain injury that left him mentally disabled he had a subdural hematoma when he was about a year and a half and had brain surgery which in those days the scar went from ear to ear and from the surgery he developed epilepsy and had grand mal seizures which was very hard my father needed to have a perfect son so I think it was hard as it is for any parents to have a child that isn't exactly perfect and that it was the first child was harder still to escape his anguish Gwyn threw himself into his work in 1954 Fred made the acquaintance of director Elia Kazan who gave him a bit part as one of Lee Jacobs henchmen in on the waterfront that same year Foxy gave birth to a daughter Gaynor although he had little interest in the day-to-day tasks of fatherhood Fred grew to be a delightful companion for his children they oh the door and they all thought he was very funny you know and great fun and but he didn't do much and he go off in the studio and spend hours there painting or learning the guitar or something and so he wasn't really involved but Gwyn took his responsibilities as a breadwinner seriously with the cost of care and special needs escalating Fred accepted a job as a copywriter at the Jay Walter Thompson advertising agency for the next five years he juggled his ad job with a variety of stage and television appearances including roles in such prestigious live shows as Studio One and Kraft television theatre he had a wonderful boss who said you know if you have a job I'll fix it so you can take a time off and do it now that was fairly unheard of so he would he worked quite a lot in 1958 Gwyn's active imagination drove him to create Best in Show a fanciful book featuring his portraits of pets and their look-alike owners two years later he published what snood a volume of racy cartoons for adults though he was content at his easel in 1960 an offer to appear on Broadway in the musical deuce Lord Gwyn back for the stage he never looked for a job which sounds pretty strange but they'd always come to him and say ah said Lana could be bothered theater and a draw and then the phone ring in 1961 Fred received a call from innovative television producer NAT Hiken who had cast win several years earlier in guest spot on his series sergeant bilko this time he offered the actor a starring role as a new york city cop opposite another sergeant bilko alum Joey Ross in a prime-time NBC sitcom there's a holdup in the Bronx Brooklyn Volcanology fights there's a traffic jam in Harlem that's backed up to Jackson Heights there's this cultural child 54 filmed in the Bronx car 54 where are you followed the misadventures of a pair of bumbling patrolmen assigned to the wackiest beat in the city Joey was a comedian who worked night clubs and strip joints and so he had the comedian's delivery Joey would just blur it out the line Fred would listen and react and his time he was impeccable Francis why are you so afraid of girls don't they it's it's not that I'm afraid of girls it's just that well what look at me I'm six foot six and five foot six of me is face no they called me in grammar school horseface don't pay no attention to kids they just repeat what other people say Fred relished the opportunity to work alongside actors whose ethnic and cultural diversity was groundbreaking in network television among the talented cast were Hank Garrett al Lewis and nipsey Russell most comedies were pretty you know white bread back in the early 60s and you wouldn't get a lot of racial blending but it was probably more progressive at the time than we would think it is by looking at it now off screen Fred and co-star al Lewis formed a close friendship I got to know Fred you know from working the show you know five days a week came very friendly with Fred he was very open very warm a good guy really really good guy the show became an immediate hit and 35 year old Fred Gwynne became a household name and when he and foxy celebrated the birth of their third child a son dillan the rising star was happier than ever but on July 12 1963 while on the set of car 54 the actor received the devastating news that his infant son Dylan had drowned in the pool of the family's new house in Bedford fred was inconsolable the pain of losing a child put an overwhelming strain on Fred and Foxy's relationship and the couple separated I would say that that was horribly traumatic for my parents but maybe even more so for my father since that was the perfect boy you know he finally had one that was perfect and I'm sure it was just devastating with his family life falling apart Fred returned to the set where he hid his private turmoil under a stoic demeanor he kept a lot of stuff to himself when he experienced the tragedy with the loss of his child he didn't come out and say you know like my child just died he really didn't want to get into it he was able to push that aside do the job once the job was finished then it became Fred when the briefs dad numb with grief Fred struggled to get through the months that followed burying himself in work he juggled a Broadway show with his TV series until car 54 was canceled after a two-year run but in 1964 a call from Hollywood would change Gwynn's life forever this is uh where you live yep this is it come on didn't have a cup of coffee I want you to meet my aunt number within months of car 54 s cancellation Fred Gwynne was offered the lead in a proposed television show based on the classic movie monsters Frankenstein Dracula and The Wolfman the comedy would center on an eerie family of monsters living in the middle of a typical suburban neighborhood hi uncle Herman hello Marilyn I'd like you to meet my date this is Jack what's the matter with me anyway teamed with friend and car 54 co-star al Lewis Fred appeared as Herman Munster in this rarely seen test opposite Joan Marshall as his vampire wife happy German in the role of their son Eddie and Beverly Owen as the Munsters niece whose all-american beauty made her the family misfit it's the family living in a neighborhood where they don't quite fit in but they don't quite realize that but they do also don't see that Marilyn looks like the rest of the world after extensive retooling which included shooting the series in cost-effective black-and-white as well as recasting the role of Herman son Eddie with eleven-year-old butch Patrick and the role of Herman's wife with 50 screen siren Yvonne De Carlo see mommy sold the ear back on your vote for Fred reluctantly agreed to sign on he didn't want to do it but the money was too good and he thought well he tried a whole idea kind of turned him off with the show now in production Fred and foxy reconciled in the hope that they could make a new life for themselves and their children in Los Angeles and on September 24 1964 the Munsters premiered on CBS in this one year of 1964 you had the monsters come on the air that same month the Addams family came on the air that same month the witch came on the air there seems to be just this weird little cultural explosion at the moment about spoofing sitcoms through the conventions of fantasy and through hard the Munsters was an immediate hit but it was Fred's interpretation of the Frankenstein monster as an innocent childlike character that captured the audience's hearts the inventive actor used many tools to bring his character to life he created a unique voice by adapting his mother's lyrical vocal tones Haitians Peter Pan you may not believe this but I'm secret agent 702 well well no how about that when he added the hearty guffaw of a prop man to his portrayal Herman's laughs became his trademark he really really immersed himself in that role and that's one of the things that most people aren't aware of when they see the Herman Munster character oh how good a job and how good actor he really was to pull that off I put Lily in the cabinet I pull a curtain all right set a few magic words I push the button and then I open the curtains she was gone grandpa you've got to help me you you'll come back my mom I'm glad your bath pump was really cracking up another high point of the show was the special comedic rapport that Fred and Al Lewis shared on screen they work well with each other and they really were up there you know as far as comedic teams with Tina Laurel already I've been Costello you know you name him grandpa did you hear door slam the back door wasn't assigned - oh it wasn't the side door what Condor was it it was the only door never for a second ever cheated the audience wanted to be both of us better than we were and I think we succeeded the Munsters quickly developed into a national phenomenon and became one of the first series to be mass merchandised I think that it was aiming very heavily at the kid market because they merchandise the show almost immediately they had all kinds of Munsters toys and gizmos and there was the Munster mobile that you could see at the parades and stuff the actors also did their part in promoting the show with numerous personal appearances as well as television commercials this is my father he hangs pictures comes grandpa experiment helps mommy with the cleaning get us go from me I'll end in my Cheerios ring G little o go with Cheerios by 1964 Fred had become one of televisions most famous faces but the stifling makeup and heavy costume were taking their toll on the 38 year old star there we got to be there 6 o'clock to our makeup and the hair and Fred the headpiece in the boat in the foam terrible he suffered terribly friggin under the phone unbelievable didn't breathe when we would have to go to lunch you get into slippers and you take off the boot and he'd pour out sweat from the boot I would say a half a gallon forced to take salt tablets to prevent severe dehydration Fred also began suffering chronic back pain and grew dangerously thin he would put this air hose down inside the suit and blow cold air down there drink gallons and gallons and gallons of lemonade to keep from being dehydrated but he still got thinner and thinner and thinner he really lost a lot of weight doing the show making the Munsters even more difficult for Fred was his growing frustration with the show scripts after a while there's just there's always so many times you can go to the well of these type of jokes that we'd already done twice and Fred was very frustrated because he was a professional constantly professional and you know it got to the point where he felt that he'd done everything he possibly could and there was really nowhere else for him to go now running the risk of becoming repetitive the series took a one-two punch in its second season when ABC's Batman premiered opposite the creepy comedy in a desperate ploy for increased viewership the studio decided to produce a color feature film adaptation entitled Munster go home don't eyelid fight filet handsome and Technicolor full of places right get the FBI will do call Scotland your light mounted phone Batman I got before I see Herman Munster if you strike Yuma challenged some of the world's fastest cars in history's weirdest race but nothing could help the Munsters by the end of the year the spooky series had lost the ratings race and CBS canceled the show he was happy he was at the cast party he held up a little sign etc says watch Batman he had no problems he was ready to go he wanted to go and it's it was it was time and he was very very happy to return home after two years of playing Herman Munster the actor was ready for a break from the grueling role but for Fred Gwynne escaping the part that had made him famous would prove to be more difficult than he could ever have imagined by the fall of 1966 the Munsters had vanished from Network television and after a brief respite a restless Fred Gwynne was ready to return to work but the actor was shocked by the devastating effect his two years as Herman Munster had on his acting career it wasn't until he was out of the Munsters that he realized that it had hurt him a lot as far as acting his name would come up for a part and they say oh come on Herman Munster for that he crazy dispirited in 1967 the 41 year old star left Hollywood and moved back to New York he didn't like Hollywood I guess a little bit too fakey and glitzy for him and he didn't want to put up with that I mean that's what you have to put up with if you're going to be quote-unquote a Hollywood celebrity star you have to be able to pretend and look as though you're not pretending and Fred couldn't do that he wanted to retire more and more from from life from doing anything from appearing in public from giving autographs fred was now free to spend more time at home with his family which had grown to include another daughter Madan and a son Evan but even the arrival of two more children could not mask the fact that Fred and Foxy's relationship was on rocky ground their marriage was not happy and there's a lot of fighting a lot of disagreeing you know like every good Irishman my father did like his cocktails and that only led to louder voices and more disagreements the animosity grew exponentially as life at home was becoming unbearable Fred found refuge in the relative security of the sound stages taking whatever roles were offered in an effort to change the public's perception of him in 1969 he accepted a part in NBC's made-for-tv musical the Littlest Angel co-starring Johnny Whitaker that same year the distinctive actor was seen as the grotesque villain in the television version of Arsenic and Old Lace then in 1970 NBC hired Gwynn to star in an upcoming series titled Anderson & Company Fred played a turn-of-the-century store owner and the father of eight rambunctious children let's get one thing clear this is a place of business not a kindergarten you're raising your bucks never under any circumstances are the children to come in this store again without express permission for me all right we'll take our patronage elsewhere good any store but mine but when the period comedy failed to catch on the network passed on the series the Harvard intellectual was forced to concede that his acting career had not lived up to his expectations and turned to the one creative outlet over which he had sole control though he was no longer receiving a regular salary wise investments allowed Gwyn the freedom to indulge in his passion for art he had a studio at the house of my parent AB that was separate from the house and he just painted and painted and painted inspired by his daughter Madan Fred began working on a children's book that combined his fanciful sense of humor with his love of wordplay I had asked him one day about the mole on his face and he said that the mole and he said I examined it and a few days later the cat killed this little furry brown animal I'm along and I said what is that means that's mole and he said I stared from this brown animal to his face back and forth and back and forth and he said finally he realized what I was doing and it just cracked him up this misunderstanding led to a series of children's books which over the years included such classics as the king who reigned a chocolate mousse for dinner and a little pigeon-toed while the books were hugely successful Gwyn still felt he had to prove himself as a serious actor and decided to return to the small stages of New England where his career had begun twenty-three years earlier but more than a few heads turned when the former television star was cast as Big Daddy in a revival of Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof co-starring Elizabeth Ashley there was great trepidation and all during the rehearsal period I can remember people saying to me I mean right you got Herman Munster playing the daddy I mean come on he's done everything but nobody remembers that he's ever done anything but this and and he wants to come and do it unfazed by the skeptics Gwynn turned in a stellar performance that won him praise from the plays legendary author Fred brought every aspect to it the Tennessee had ever and that's very rare when you're dealing with player ID like Tennessee Williams realizing that theater offered him the quality of work to which he had always aspired Fred continued to act in a variety of acclaimed stage productions including a role as Claudius in Shakespeare's Hamlet and that of the stage manager in Thornton Wilder's our town I think that it took so much out of him to go on stage but he did love the theater he really did and I think that was really his element I mean I've seen him on stage and he just closed in 1979 the versatile actor won an Obie Award for his performance in the off-broadway play grand Magic at 53 Fred had established himself as one of the theaters principal character actors his years as a film and television star seemed far behind him but it was a situation that wouldn't last for long in 1979 53 year-old Fred Gwynne was approached by Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci the director of such landmark films as the conformist and the Last Tango in Paris offered Gwynn a pivotal role in the somber drama Luna starring Jill Clayburgh had a strange dream last night oh it is boring no no you're busy packing I'll tell you later tell me your dreams when people tell me their dreams I find it very interesting no I'll tell you later we'll have loads of time on the book okay remember we have two hours to get ready by now Gwyn was beginning to prove that there was more to him than Herman Munster but at home Fred's relationship to foxy was unraveling and after 28 years together the couple decided to divorce you just drift apart it happens on you suddenly nothing looks very colorful or fun and we're a lot of battles a lot of unpleasantness so split in 1980 Fred moved into an apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side Wynn enjoyed The Bachelor life but all that changed when a friend introduced him to 30 year-old Debra later we had a lot in common I was working in book publishing he at the time was working on a children's one of his children's books you know and I took an interest in what he was doing and so we had a common ground there dead strong will and take-charge attitude appealed to Fred they soon began seeing more of each other she made him feel very secure and she's a strong woman and he really liked that he likes to have a strong woman to take care of him and he likes to be he liked to be told which way they go and Debbie was just the woman for the job together the couple decided to focus their energy on Fred's film and TV career in 1981 the 55 year old actor received an offer to reprise the role of Herman Munster in the NBC TV movie The Munsters revenge Fred did not want to really do the monster thing again when I told him I said look the thing to do is name an astronomical figure and they'll reject it and that'll be the end of it well he named an astronomical figure well they took it after filming was completed Fred was eager to move on to more serious acting challenges in 1984 Gwynn got his chance when he won a flashy role in Francis Ford Coppola the Cotton Club starring Richard Gere and Bob Hoskins fred was cast as big Frenchie the loyal friend and bodyguard to Hoskins club owner Owney Madden Bob Hoskins and Fred wrote some of their own scenes in particularly the watch scene I think it added a new perspective to Fred's acting ability let me see you watch let's see they picked me up in front of the club about shits I picked me up a bot oh [ __ ] then it got broken come give it mama I could fix it son of a [ __ ] you only offered $500 for me what if you are kidnapped I wouldn't owe her more than that for you for his performance Wynn received the attention of other influential Hollywood directors and over the next few years the actor entered a new phase in his career when he appeared in a series of a list films that established him as one of Hollywood's most sought-after character actors his personal life mirrored his newfound stability and on March 9th 1988 he and Deb married the following year Gwynn decided it was time to publicly display his artwork the exhibit which he called drawn and quartered featured paintings that combine Fred's lifelong love of wordplay with his irreverent sense of humor he was a spiritual person he was very interested in hereafter and who God was and what power that makes us all tick and he expressed a lot of that in his paintings opening night I mean it was you know a zoo people standing in the outside everyone was you know really excited about at an age when most people are retiring Fred Gwynne was at his creative prime he continued to turn in standout performances in such films as Stephen King's pet cemetery and the heist comedy disorganized crime starring Lou Diamond Phillips Ruben blades and daniel roebuck we need another 900 why don't we just take out alone can hit one more are you out of your mind we're gonna get nailed this isn't Miami you know every cop they haven't be swarming over that market if we hit another right now they won't be ready they won't be ready I'm not ready I haven't done this since I was 17 go I can't believe I'm doing it the film was shot in Montana and Gwynn who had developed a fear of flying traveled to the location in a custom motor home with dead still newlyweds the couple's playful chemistry lit up the set friend Debbie seemed really like they saw life the same way you know they played the same way they talked the same way and they just they just seemed perfect together the movie received only modest attention but critics singled out Fred subtle performance as a highlight although the 63 year old actor was now working steadily Fred grew irritable and restless he was very emotional there was there were times when you would almost feel he was manic-depressive because it would be that extreme but it it was more he would become frustrated with himself if he wasn't working it would bug him and he would drive you crazy about not working but then when he was working he'd drive you crazy about working after years of personal and professional highs and lows the lanky star was ready to put his career on the backburner and seek out a more tranquil way of life but now that fred was anxious to retire he found himself in greater demand than ever before in 1989 after living most of his life in New York Fred Gwynne decided to leave behind the hustle and bustle of the big city we both realized that we really missed the country we thought boy wouldn't it be nice to have a place in the country the couple purchased a farm in rural Maryland where Deb had grown up well at that time it was 280 acres we added 10 more to it but the house was unlivable most people would have bulldozed the house but we felt it had character it was old it had history and it was fun to do while Deb struggled to turn the ranch into a profitable venture fred focused on his art they had to build him a big studio he had it's a big beautiful spacious studio and he got so much work done but I have a feeling that he missed the city sometimes and missed just the pulse the beat of city living and sort of the excitement of it all to help finance the costly renovations the actor turned to the lucrative world of commercial voiceovers and his rich bass baritone could be heard in a variety of TV ads such as this one for dryers ice cream doing things the old-fashioned way does take a little extra time but it's worth it because it keeps the greedy little Rugrats away from our dryers almond praline he had found voice overs and found that man that was an easy way to make money and then he could paint and draw and bright children's books and do all those other great things though Fred had all but given up his film career in 1991 he accepted a key role in the courtroom comedy my cousin Vinnie starring Joe Pesci Marisa Tomei and Ralph Macchio in the film Pesci portrayed an inexperienced New York attorney defending his cousin before a stern southern judge played by Gwyn counselor your clients are charged with first-degree murder how they plead Aryana my god talk to me sitting in that chair he told me to sit here because he's not very legalistic I tell him up front the procedure procedure is what I'm all about when you're addressing this court you'll rise to speak to me I'm a clear intelligible voice I'm sorry my client side what do you win huh what are you well I'm wearing clothes with him and Joe Pesci first of the physical disparities hilarious anyway in the performances together they really had a is a terrific chemistry is it possible to to use yeah - quad Oh what was that word uh what would - what what did you say Utes yeah - Utes what is a ute oh excuse me Jana two youths my cousin Vinnie was a huge box office success and Gwyn received some of the best reviews of his career at the age of 66 the actor was now more in demand than ever but in 1993 fred began to experience severe back pain a routine trip to the doctor delivered a devastating prognosis he was in the advanced stages of pancreatic cancer given just six months to live Fred now had to face his own mortality to keep his spirits up the multi-talented artist spent much of his time in the studio painting and doodling in his final months wind took time to say goodbye to his closest friends and family when it was pretty clear that he was gonna die we talked a lot about death and he said he was gonna see his mother and finally get to spend time with his father which was something to look forward to he always said that he felt that life was you know that fast and when we had to say goodbye and you know when he was really really ill he just said I'll see you this soon on July 2nd 1993 Fred Gwynne died in his sleep just 8 days before his 67th birthday while Gwynn is gone his memory lives on with the role he fought so hard to escape with new fans discovering the Munsters in syndication the series is more popular than ever his sound his booming laugh was funny his polite expressions I mean everything he had his theatrical training went into just sending this character through the camera really plan I think to the kids just who loved this guy although Fred rarely discussed his role as Herman monster privately he was proud of the character he had created some days he was tired of being recognized as Herman Munster in other days that was fine with him because Herman Munster was a nice guy but beyond the role that made him famous Fred Gwynne leaves behind a rich legacy of work that included children's books a collection of paintings and sculpture and a diversity of screen rolls that continue to touch audiences throughout the world I still get fan mail expressing how much he meant to them and it kind of amazes me sometimes Fred Quinn love life and he he was given a lot of talents with which to express that love he was just this big huge man and he was a little boy inside of that big huge man I never saw Fred's ego he wasn't about look at me he was about the dance he was fine very hard to talk about someone you had so much fun with you weld admired I love you Fred rest in peace you

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