In this regard, how did lurch die?
Ted Cassidy, an actor who played the sinister-looking, sepuchral-voiced butler Lurch in the comedy television series “The Addams Family,” died Jan. 16 in Los Angeles of complications following open-heart surgery for a nonmalignant tumor. He was 46 years old.
Also Know, is lurch still alive? Time, however, has been less gracious to the cast. Only four of the original eight members are still alive. Blossom Rock, who played Grandmama Addams, died in 1978, at age 82. Lumbering Ted Cassidy, who played Lurch and Thing (the hand), died after open-heart surgery in 1979, at 46.
Similarly one may ask, is lurch a zombie?
Lurch is like Frankensteins monster. Reanimated deliberately by a creator. Zombie-like in that he WAS dead but now walks, but different; that's bit a virus, he craves no brains, and he was created with purpose.
What is lurch real name?
Ted Cassidy
