Any time an actor — and this was definitely true of Fred Gwynne — steps in front of a camera, the hope is for a connection between performer and the audience. When there is, it can be magic ...

Each day, Fred Gwynne underwent a three-hour application to transform into the character of Herman Munster. This transformation involved wearing 40 to 50 pounds of padding, makeup and 5-inch ...

Fred Gwynne — a ’60s pop-culture icon thanks to his TV roles as Officer Muldoon on “Car 54, Where Are You?” and patriarch Herman Munster on “The Munsters” — has never really ...

QUESTION: I have been a longtime fan of both Ed Herrmann and Fred Gwynne. As far as I am aware, Mr. Gwynne was the only person to play Herman Munster, but I read different in your column recently.

As the woman on the other end of the phone goes to fetch Fred Gwynne, a baby boomer’s heart is fluttering. After all, Gwynne was Herman Munster, a dull-witted but lovable parody of Frankenstein.

It is a classic of a different age that deserves to have an audience until the end of time and especially for the performance of Fred Gwynne, a gentle soul, and a mountain of a man both in stature ...

That show, which starred Fred Gwynne as Herman, Yvonne DeCarlo as his wife, Lily, and Al Lewis as Grandpa Munster, lasted but two seasons (1964-65 and 1965-66), but it seems to have aired in ...

On this day in horror, back in 1989, Paramount Pictures unleashed director Mary Lambert’s classic adaptation of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary with Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, and Denise Crosby.